Animation Master 79.99 for one year, or 299.99 to buy. http://www.hash.com/ Examples: http://www.youtube.com/hashinc2007 Blender 2.49 Free http://www.blender.org/ A few years ago I was really looking forward to Reflex. But it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. http://www.digitalfish.com/products/animators/ As a…
Animating in blender 2.49 is quite nice. I'm basing my opinion on the fact that I've also animated in max, xsi, lw, messiah and motion builder in the past if that gives some perspective. 2.5 will definitely improve on the experience, but I'm not using it for any projects until it makes its way out of alpha/beta. I'll stick…
monster, what are your thoughts on Animation Master? I'm experienced in animating/rigging in Maya, but I'm looking for something else to animate with for my personal work.
I've been following blender's development for a while and I believe that once 2.5 is out it will battle with the big boys. Here's what it can do regarding animation: http://vimeo.com/2274969
alot drama queen in this post :D Traditional modeling own's it all :) :thumbup: ok but everybody must test everything to has a overview what you can do with all these, that is my point :) It's just tool, forget the ideology of " wow it free " the important thing is what you know do! If you can do Pixar animation with Paint…
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…