RE: FLASH: 3d vector animation tool (NOW OT)

[paul wehner]

Title: RE: FLASH: 3d vector animation tool (NOW OT)

Ok, everyone should go to www.coolfun.com and download the demo of organica- mac or pc.

Full version is only $150. It is the best,simplest metaball modeler I've used.

Its trivial to create an organic shape with this tool- exports to Imagine and Lightwave object formats, rudimentary animation included.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Chris Jester
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 2:49 PM
To: 'flasherchinwag [dot] com'
Subject: RE: FLASH: 3d vector animation tool (NOW OT)

What about Truespace? I found that to be quite the bang for the buck! And the UI is no where near as complicated as most others.

Thanks,
Chris Jester
Flash Illustrator/Animator,
Meridian Partners, Ltd.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard McLean [vorplen130 [dot] aone [dot] net [dot] au (mailto:vorplen130 [dot] aone [dot] net [dot] au)]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:35 AM
To: flasherchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: 3d vector animation tool

>> 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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