Best Rendering Options

alaskan66 · June 10, 2003 9:54PM

I need to do a very simple 3D model for a product proposal. This is a commercial presentation, so MAYA PLE isn't an option, because I can't very well go into a meeting with a watermark.

The item in question is essentially a rectangle, similar to an iPod in size with different functionality.

What are your recommendations, if my criteria in order are:

price

simplicity

quality output

short learning curve

TIA FYA

Alaskan

foad · June 10, 2003 10:23PM

How much 3D do you know? HOw familiar are you with it?

Good options are Maya and Lightwave, but CInema4D is also a strong package. Price-wise, they are all roughly in the same ballpark. They all have solid renderers(Maya's renderer is much better now with more Mental Ray intergration). Each of them is more intuitive in some ways then others.

alaskan66 · June 10, 2003 10:34PM

I'm relatively inexperienced. I have used Bryce for terrain modeling, but not much for object modeling.

i'm downloading a demo of Cinema right now. I'll check that against Maya. They seem kind of like overkill to me, but the options are thin.

cowerd · June 10, 2003 10:44PM

No such thing as a 3D that automagically does great output. You're going to spend time fussing with materials, lights and textures, much less modelling the thing. Unless you just go in with a wireframe.

Doesn't this sound like a buyout--or is there no budget for it?

alaskan66 · June 10, 2003 11:13PM

Doesn't this sound like a buyout--or is there no budget for it? [/B][/QUOTE]

Not at the minimal level of detail... In the hour since I first posted the question, i'm 2/3 of the way to a workable model. What I don't know how to do in 4d is add text/images to the model and then render it in...

I'm learning as I go, but I don't have a budget to have it done, or I would.

trowa · June 11, 2003 5:43AM

Alaskan66,

you might want to check out Electric Image as well.

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