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Re: Help with animation please

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Originally Posted by Waldo1641
Hello First people,
1.What program to use, 2.How to use it or where I can find out how to use it, 3. creative ideas, 4. helpful suggestions, ect.

Thank you!
1) the kit comes with 3d Studio Max. It is good, as long as you have a good enough of a computer.
2) There is too much to tell you about it in a fourm like this. However, 3DS max has very good tutorials that you should try out. They would be under the Help menu, I think, unless it's changed from 3DS max 5.
3) You have to be the creative one. Nearly every team is making a video. the kit should have come with a DVD of last year's videos. You can get some ideas from that
4) Get a team together. Learn Max with them. Try to work together to get a storyboard together and how you would go about making it

Becuase each team gets 1 copy of 3DS max, I sugest downloading Gmax or using VIS that came in the kit for the basic modeling. Gmax is free and both are very close to 3DS max. I'm not very fimiliar with VIS, but the screenshots look like Max. If you understand Max or the others, you will get them all.

Good Luck!
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