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Note: Check out the Gallery
& Support section of the following
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Learn the whole pipeline for Animation Film from Pixar/How
We Do It. |
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Pixar's Shorts
& Artists
Corner is also great resourse! |
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Maya |
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Alias|Wavefront, owned by Silicon Graphics Inc |
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Maya is currently most advanced 3D animation software.
Compare to Max, Maya is relative complex to learn, but you
get more advanced character animation and visual effects
capabilities, including Artisan brush-based tools, Paint
Effects that allow grass, trees, and other elements to be
painted into 3D space, and Dynamic Simulation of rigid objects,
soft-bodies, fluids, cloth, and hair, combined with a powerful
scripting language-Mel. |
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Softimage|XSI |
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Softimage, owned by Avid |
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XSI is a formidable competitor to Maya. Before XSI,
Softimage|3D was a popular animation system used in many
feature films. |
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3D Studio Max |
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Discreet |
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Max dominates the video game development industry, is
a popular 3D programs with hobbyists. Max is an easy to
learn software with pretty powerful modeling, animation,
and rendering solution, but most of the system's power comes
from the huge market for plug-ins and add-ons. |
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Lightwave 3D |
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Newtek |
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Lightwave is a popular and relatively easy to use
software which is widely used for video and television
production around the world. |
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Pixar|Photorealistic Renderman |
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Pixar |
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Pixar's Renderman (PRMAN) is the most widely used
rendering solution for feature films, responsible for
rendering most of the 3D scenes in productions made by
Pixar, ILM, and other top companies. |
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Mental Ray |
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Mental Images |
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Mental Ray ships is used as a standard renderer with
Softimage|XSI, also used with Maya or other animation
packages. It is a sophisticated
programmable raytracer that also supports global illumination,
radiosity-style bounced lighting and caustic effects.
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Houdini |
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Side
Effects Software |
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Houdini is known as a sophisticated
and flexible 3D animation tool for Technical Directors
and anyone who wants the maximum amount of control over
their 3D tools to solve special problems that
could be harder to solve in other applications. |
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Silicon
Graphics |
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SGI not only produces the SGI computers,
which run the vast majority of visual effects software,
but it also is the parent company of Alias/Wavefront. |
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