Picsel

BTW i am not sure where to put this at all

I am literally just getting into 3D design i am very interested in getting in to digital graphics and designing characters and animation such as in films like SW, ou know all he weird and wonderful cvharacters that are made nowadays. it is something i would love ton pursue this as a career. I am only 14 and i would like to know which kinds of programs i should use for these outcomes. I am not totally new to design i have made simple forum signatures using Photoshop but i would now like to move up to a bigger and better things. what programs should i use for what i want and where can i get them?

any help is greatly appreciated

manta

Well we are starting young aren't we...
I would suggest you start with Blender and Wings3D they are both free, and quite capable...

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Ben_T

A really simple 3d program you could have some fun with is FormZ... not sure how much it retails for, or if you can get a demo copy of it...

Picsel

well are those the best to start with or would i be better off starting with an advanced one such as Maya? i dont mind about the price i will be able to get hold of any program. what i am aiming to do in the short term is make characters and animations such as Pixar films and in the long term make a career out of that or out of more realistic looking digital animations such as Ja Ja Binks out of star wars or even the Aliens out of the Alien Film so at the moment i am looking for a good start into the digital graphics world

philip kelly

form z is expensive for what it offers.
Go for cinema basic package or the xsi, XSI has everthing you will need.
For charater design, formz is fantasic for architecture but the animation end is a joke and has been is they are adding tools for charater design but nothin else to support it.


phil

IC

For what you want to do, I'd suggest Poser or Hash:AM.
Then move onto XSI or something similar.

Getting into the complex programs could kill the fun factor straight away.

And don't let it take over your life! The outdoors are a wonderful thing

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crazy homeless guy

FormZ is good for CAD modeling, bad for character modeling. I would recommend Maya or Lightwave. Although I admittedly know nothing about XSI.

Maya used to have a free learnign program designed exactly for people like you, so maybe that would be a good place to start.

(..and the link)
http://www.alias.com/eng/products-se...le/index.shtml

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hi There

Picsel

have you checked out "Animation Master" ??

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"Animation:Master, A cross-platform modeling, rendering and animation package that rivals high-end software costing thousands more ..."

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Picsel

yeah i was looking at maya or studio max because something i would also like to move onto is like film set design andmore realistic things so yeah but Maya and XSI seem to be the opne's people seem to think and dont worry im not staying in every day on this i have to play football for my team and i do a drama course on thursdays so dont worry about that lol.