Re: FLASH: 3d vector animation tool

[Richard McLean]

>> The reason that I suggest A:M, apart from it having features

>> to match softimage, Maya, Lightwave, etc, etc in terms of

>> animation and modelling (seriously), would be because has

>> a killer toon rendering system (for the smallest Flash vector

>> sizes), is cross-platform, and only costs $199.

>

>I spoke with the folks at the Hash booth at SIGGRAPH about Flash output...

>They said they didn't export swf, fla or eps and weren't really planning on

>developing for Flash.

>

>Has that changed, perhaps? The application is really cool and powerful by

>the way! ...and a steal for that price.



Nope, that hasn't changed, but looking at all of the other solutions people

are suggesting (except *perhaps* Max & the Vectra plug-in - which is

around 20x the price) Hash still comes out the winner as far as I can see.


You could either export each frame as DXF and go through Vectra (the

hard way) or render using the toon settings and (auto)trace in Flash.


The other thing is that both the Hash and the Flash formats are fairly

open. If the market was there, one of the third party plug-in developers

(or Hash themselves) would come out with a product that filled the need.


If you want to do 3D though, A:M is worth it anyway.




kind regards,

Richard McLean


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