Safety animation challenge

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by DRAKE2751

Why does it not surprise me that a 342 affiliate would be all over the safety annimation? Good luck this year!

I'm not on Team 342 any more.
They got a great new animation mentor (3DElizabeth) a couple years ago, so I helped start up Team 3489.

It looks like I have a very bright group of kids on our new animation team, but they have zero experience, so this will be an interesting challenge.

[whcirobotics]

do you know exactly what autodesk software that we have to use?

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by whcirobotics

do you know exactly what autodesk software that we have to use?

Usually, teams use Maya and 3DS MAX. As long as it's Autodesk though, I'm pretty sure you can use it. Programs like Blender you can't use though since it's not Autodesk.

[Kevin Thorp]

Yes, 3ds Max or Maya, and you can download either free at students.autodesk.com.

They're both very powerful, very complicated 3D animation programs. Sometime the choice depends on which one your animation mentor is comfortable with. That's assuming you have an animation mentor, but many teams do not.

It's okay use other programs like PhotoShop or video editing software to help make your animation, but the main 3D software must be from Autodesk.

[Eagleeyedan]

Originally Posted by Kevin342

Yes, 3ds Max or Maya, and you can download either free at students.autodesk.com.

They're both very powerful, very complicated 3D animation programs. Sometime the choice depends on which one your animation mentor is comfortable with. That's assuming you have an animation mentor, but many teams do not.

It's okay use other programs like PhotoShop or video editing software to help make your animation, but the main 3D software must be from Autodesk.

Or you could always use Autodesk Smoke for editing...