[Lunarboy]

Hi all,

What's the best 3D app to learn and invest in for doing motion graphics (broadcast, film titles, etc.)?

In the 1990s I was a novice user of FormZ and Electric Image, but I never kept up with them.

I also come from a more traditional design background, not an animation background.

What do people use now in the motion graphics industry? (Maya, Universe, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, etc.?)

Thanks!

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by Lunarboy:
Hi all,

What's the best 3D app to learn and invest in for doing motion graphics (broadcast, film titles, etc.)?

In the 1990s I was a novice user of FormZ and Electric Image, but I never kept up with them.

I also come from a more traditional design background, not an animation background.

What do people use now in the motion graphics industry? (Maya, Universe, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, etc.?)

Thanks!

Pretty much Maya for films, lots of TV stuff is done with lesser apps.

[nate_02]

Originally posted by Lunarboy:
Hi all,

What's the best 3D app to learn and invest in for doing motion graphics (broadcast, film titles, etc.)?

In the 1990s I was a novice user of FormZ and Electric Image, but I never kept up with them.

I also come from a more traditional design background, not an animation background.

What do people use now in the motion graphics industry? (Maya, Universe, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, etc.?)

Thanks!

I go to school at Public TV station and they are purchasing Maya for their HD productions.

[Axo1ot1]

what

[sanity assassin]

For films, Softimage XSI, or Maya, I'd try to learn either one of those. Maya is more for the technical director stuff, XSI for animation, rendering.

Also have a look out for 3DS MAX, still the name in the games industry.

[nate_02]

Originally posted by Axo1ot1:
what

do you have a question about something?

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by nate_02:
do you have a question about something?

There's one thing I don't understand, and that thing is your whole goddamn post

[nate_02]

Originally posted by Axo1ot1:
There's one thing I don't understand, and that thing is your whole goddamn post

your problem, not mine if you don't understand basic TV terms.

[Axo1ot1]

The terms I understand, I just can't parse them. Your response is incoherent.

[PowerMatt]

Recap. I didn't know that subjects and verbs have become so confusing.

Originally posted by nate_02:
I go to school at Public TV station

He goes to school at a Public TV station.
Understand?

Originally posted by nate_02:
they are purchasing Maya

Said Public TV station is purchasing Maya.
Understatnd?

Originally posted by nate_02:
for their HD productions.

Public TV station is planning to use Maya for HD production.
Understand?

[Jim_MDP]

Originally posted by PowerMatt:

He goes to school at a Public TV station.
Understand?

Thats the odd part. Internship, maybe?

Though I never got hold of it, I was thrilled/stunned/taken with the VideoToaster setup on the Amiga back in the early nineties.

I just saw that NewTek has a new web site and have brought back the suite, not just Lightwave. Have they kept up with the times (HD, etc.)?

Oh� and I miss Kiki.

[PowerMatt]

Originally posted by Jim_MDP:
Thats the odd part. Internship, maybe?

Though I never got hold of it, I was thrilled/stunned/taken with the VideoToaster setup on the Amiga back in the early nineties.

I just saw that NewTek has a new web site and have brought back the suite, not just Lightwave. Have they kept up with the times (HD, etc.)?

Oh� and I miss Kiki.

In many large cities, such as Milwaukee, the local PBS station is a part of the local technical college or is in someway affiliated with a technical college. Many times, the progams offered by these 2-year schools along with the PBS in the area is head and shoulders above the four-year schools which are also available. I know for a fact that the broadcast/production program at UW-Milwaukee is severely lacking compared with the PBS/Milwaukee Tech. College program.