be vary, what you end up choosing willl decide on how good an artist you become!
Blender is a deadend, and its users can never work professionally!
Watch it, eld. Blender artists are a rabid bunch. Blender is also the backbone of open-source 3D modeling. The only reason more developers don't use it is because most game engines are designed with a specific software package in mind. (examples, Quake + 3DSMax, Source + SoftImage, Unreal + Maya) Besides, anyone who can navigate Blender's interface can handle any commercial 3D package with their eyes closed.
Watch it, eld. Blender artists are a rabid bunch. Blender is also the backbone of open-source 3D modeling. The only reason more developers don't use it is because most game engines are designed with a specific software package in mind. (examples, Quake + 3DSMax, Source + SoftImage, Unreal + Maya) Besides, anyone who can navigate Blender's interface can handle any commercial 3D package with their eyes closed.
Sorry, I was joking , I'm the one at work who stuff blender into a modern console game pipeline. And it's still the main application I use, but learning other programs hasn't been hard.
blenderer since 96-97 sometime, can't remember when.
Heh, facetious humor just doesn't come across very well in written form. I mainly got into Blender simply because of budgetary restraints. Now that my finances are improved, I'm seriously considering buying some commercial programs.
Although Blender has its own sculpting tools, it chokes if you throw too many polygons at it. I wouldn't mind laying down some money for some solid performance-friendly sculpting software. Silo 3D is the most wallet-happy package, but I wouldn't mind spending extra if it meant I got to throw around more polygons for less RAM. Someone with experience recommend a high-poly modeling package for me. If I save up for a month, I should be able to afford any of the usual suspects.
Also, I am intrigued by these recommendations I'm hearing for Truespace. I want to give that trial version a look-see.
Sometimes I leave smileys out just to stir things up, bad habit
I wouldn't use blender sculpt for heavy sculpting, but I wouldn't use anything like that in max or maya either, specialized tools for the win!
but I wouldn't unwrap anything in any program outside of blender.
asking for a 3dprogram recommendation is a bad idea, in most cases, one should be presented with a list that excludes the DON'Ts and just have the artist choose, since any tool can be learned at any time, but becoming a good artist is not as easy.
one thing to add, while I see people having maya and max crash on them around here, many times, Blender keeps on going without issues.
If you want to spend money, but don't want to break the bank, you might consider settling for a modeling-centric program. These would be ZBrush, MudBox, or Silo 3D.
To add to that:
XSI|Foundation version is in the same price range as Zbrush/Mudbox. It's fully featured for game artists, with Mental Ray rendering, animation, etc. So even a workflow consisting of XSI, Silo, Zbrush, would cost you much less than half of what you'd pay for one industry standard application. But this is only valid if you assume people pay for the software they're using anyway .
Holy crap, Rwolf! That has to be one of the biggest video tutorial repositories I've ever seen! and I love the narrator's British accent. If anyone wants to learn XSI, follow Rwolf's lead. Each of those tutorials is several minutes long, and there has to be at least a hundred of the things.
I went there and saw all that, but if you go to the home page www.vast.ws it says the site is for students so I don't think we should have been given a link to that stuff.
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Watch it, eld. Blender artists are a rabid bunch. Blender is also the backbone of open-source 3D modeling. The only reason more developers don't use it is because most game engines are designed with a specific software package in mind. (examples, Quake + 3DSMax, Source + SoftImage, Unreal + Maya) Besides, anyone who can navigate Blender's interface can handle any commercial 3D package with their eyes closed.
Sorry, I was joking
blenderer since 96-97 sometime, can't remember when.
Although Blender has its own sculpting tools, it chokes if you throw too many polygons at it. I wouldn't mind laying down some money for some solid performance-friendly sculpting software. Silo 3D is the most wallet-happy package, but I wouldn't mind spending extra if it meant I got to throw around more polygons for less RAM. Someone with experience recommend a high-poly modeling package for me. If I save up for a month, I should be able to afford any of the usual suspects.
Also, I am intrigued by these recommendations I'm hearing for Truespace. I want to give that trial version a look-see.
I wouldn't use blender sculpt for heavy sculpting, but I wouldn't use anything like that in max or maya either, specialized tools for the win!
but I wouldn't unwrap anything in any program outside of blender.
asking for a 3dprogram recommendation is a bad idea, in most cases, one should be presented with a list that excludes the DON'Ts and just have the artist choose, since any tool can be learned at any time, but becoming a good artist is not as easy.
one thing to add, while I see people having maya and max crash on them around here, many times, Blender keeps on going without issues.
To add to that:
XSI|Foundation version is in the same price range as Zbrush/Mudbox. It's fully featured for game artists, with Mental Ray rendering, animation, etc. So even a workflow consisting of XSI, Silo, Zbrush, would cost you much less than half of what you'd pay for one industry standard application. But this is only valid if you assume people pay for the software they're using anyway .
...I am not as experienced w/ 3Ds Max as I'd like to be, but I've seen what others have done with it.
Just use the trials, find what suits you, and see if it fits your workflow well enough to be worth using...
I couldn't figure out XSI myself...but I can navigate in Blender pretty well...just can't make anytihng with it.
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Here are the first things I did in XSI over the last couple of days. I'm using I3D Tutorials to learn.
Vast is a pretty handy flash based tutorial site, covers a ton about xsi
http://www.vast.ws/resources/xsi/tutorials/tutorials.html