Lots of Vfx/film types over at Modo's Luxology Forum always talk about using Lightwave + Messiah for character animation, they seem pretty happy. Lightwave $895 + Messiah $399 So $1294 which includes a possible free upgrade to the next version of Lighwave, Lightwave CORE. Blender $0 Note that blender 2.5 alpha 2 is out, UI…
I would really suggest looking through these two http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/396/Character-Modeling-for-Production http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/425/Character-Texturing-for-Production#.U3zWJ_ldV8E They're a bit old, but at the time they blew my mind about production. Though loads of…
Here's the PC I'm going to build (just ordered the parts on Thurs, parts should get here buy Fri of next week): * CASE LIANLI|BLACK PC-K62 R* $99.99 * LINK DEPOT 12" 3PIN UV EX CABLE * $1.99 * POWER CABLE | POW-ADT-3PY RETAIL * $1.99 * MB GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R * $209.99 * PSU CORSAIR|CMPSU-650TX 650W RT * $99.99 * CPU…
I got a lifetime subscription to secondlife back in the day ( I was in the beta for a while) and eventually got bored and stopped playing. Since it was a lifetime subscription my character just sat there and earned his weekly stipend for about 3 years. I read an article about people selling there lindenbucks on the open…