Can swift3d do this easily?

[Maximus300zx]

Hi

I'm thinking about purchasing swift3d to creat and use an animated characture in my web site like the one at http://www.neostream.com and was wondering if this application would be a good tool to do this with.

Thanks

Max
max@maximillian.ws

PS

[chordmasta]

yes, that would be simple to accomplish and i think swift is the right buy -- it the animations are simple. Complex animations can only be achieved with time.

[Daniellawson]

If you want to create a complex character like at neostream then i would maybe suggest Plasma or 3d studio max(with swift plugin).

But if you are looking to make a simple character and stay on the cheaper sideThen animate it then i would stick to Swift 3d.



EDIT: Just took another look at the neostream splash page, You could create that in Photoshop and animate it with the incorprated Image Ready with not much trouble

[CDP-Design]

have you looked at the whole site though neostream my fav site and erm u ait gnana be able to pull off the type of stuff they do with their character with swift or photoshop u will need to use 3ds max you mayb able to acomplish it in cinema 3d but i dont think there is a flash exporter.

[allaboutkeys]

Originally posted by chordmasta
yes, that would be simple to accomplish ...

I really would like to see you doing this kind of character animation in Swift.

You will definitely need a 3d software with some organic modeling tools.

[chordmasta]

http://www.swiftdev.com/coppermine/a...1/airbrush.jpg

(i did not make this, but it was done in swift)


you havent seen much advanced swift have you?

many insane things have been done, and i think this particular think could be done with the lathe editor and some ais done in flash

[allaboutkeys]

Originally posted by chordmasta
http://www.swiftdev.com/coppermine/a...1/airbrush.jpg

(i did not make this, but it was done in swift)


you havent seen much advanced swift have you?

many insane things have been done, and i think this particular think could be done with the lathe editor and some ais done in flash

I have seen a lot of awesome Swift work. But still, you will never be able to model organic shapes and deformations.

[chordmasta]

yea, but as i said, you could simulate these good enough with the lathe editor. The animations werent that complex.

[98svt]

Maybe Swift3D v4 will allow more modeling? I hope so.
You can get it pretty colse using swift, but it will not be as smooth as the original without an advance 3D program.
Give it a shot, amaze us!

[CDP-Design]

swift 3d cant do organic but it can make some really kool robots havent seen any realistic organic work from swift yet.

[chordmasta]

ok, not very realistic, and sloppy animation, but for 10 mins and a swift semi-noob, i dont think its bad, but i think that you can get by with sopmething like this


animation is bad!


but check it just as an example, i have the t3d if needed


http://www.hostultra.com/~chordmasta/Flash/alien.swf

[chordmasta]

acctually, i looked at this and decompiled it and Daniellawson is right, the alien was drawn in photoshop, then the moving arm was made in flash and animated, no 3d at all!

[CDP-Design]

lol 3ds exports as a sequence of bitmap images which are used for the animation its animated in 3ds max. If you decompile something its not going to give you all the source files.

[chordmasta]

ahh my friend, you are incorrect.


i know i dont get all of the source files, but ok

look at this little flash, i broke down all the parts for you guys.



Here

[Daniellawson]

If im following this thread correctly, I see no reason why neostream would use a top end 3d modelling program to create the character on the splash page. The simplest and most efficient way would be photoshop and flash.

Only the splash tho

[chordmasta]

i agree 100%

[Maximus300zx]

I just wanted to make a note that I really have enjoyed reading the posts in this thread that I started. Since posting I've been playing a little with swift 3D aand will probably need to buy the book to really take advantage of it. Just a quick thanks to all that have responded

[chordmasta]

no prb man, glad to help


email me if you need any help

chordmastaflash@yahoo.com