Whats a good Graphic Animator?

[mpeck]

i know you can do animations with Photoshop's Image Ready, but i need something where you can do big-time animation, like stickdeath style stuff. (a 2-d maya-like program would be awesome, if anyone doesnt know, maya is a 3-d graphic/animation software, what they used to make movies like Shrek, and other animated movies.), basically what i want is a program where you can lock 1 joint(lets say the shoulder), and move the elbow around, so the arm moves, but rotates along the shoulder(or lock point). anyone know of a good program that can do this?

[Fuji]

Macromedia Flash MX is what they use for Stickdeath. Very complicated though. It took me about a year to get the hang of it. I didn't use tuts tho because I didn't know about them for MX. Use Bearshare and get it. (It's $800 almost)

[mpeck]

i already got it now....used bit torrents, took about an hour or 2, it is the best one, but if you ever get into 3d maya is the best there is, you can bind limbs so you can grab the wrist, and move it around, the shoulder will stay stationary and the arm will move around it, and bend at the elbow, its really awesome, i used it for about a week, and had a headless walking stickfigure(through the use of tutorials, but if your going to get into that, get a mac, otherwise it takes days to render something, its also a b!tch to crack, if ya dl it for the mac, you got find the comp id(been awhile, i forgot how), then go on a pc, open a file, insert the id, save it, and run an .exe then take the new file it makes, and put it over on the mac, in a hidden folder(gotta use xtools or something like that to see the hidden folders), took me and my dad about 2 days to fully dl and get it running.

[A|fzZz]

so mpeck u use 3d maya or bearshare?

[Warslut]

For good 3D animation and modeling I say use Lightwave, I do, it's awsome, but takes some time to learn. I made that ship in it that I showed a long time ago. Think the thread was called "Ship finished" If you want to look at it and see what you can do with Lightwave... of corse that was my first project so its not the best.

[Fuji]

Heres your ship thread
http://www.d2sector.net/forums/showthrea...p+finished

I give it a 10/10! I use Milkshape for 3d modeling.... It's what the designers of Half-Life used.

I like to make new creatures for Black and White. So far I made a Hamster and a Dog. That's it though.

Took a while to get skeletons in creatures.... They were blobs in the game but ultimo death in the program. I'll try and make a new one and post it up sometime. I'll try Light Wave tonight probably. I catch on pretty fast.

[Warslut]

Make sure you look down though, the 1st pic isn't completely finished yet

[A|fzZz]

slvt where did u get it from?
bought it or got it off some p2p program?

[Warslut]

Got burnt CD from techer heh. If you go on MSN I can send you it, ~600MB but I did already so I know I can.

[kurups]

Macromedia Flash MX is like impossible lol but im learning