3D Software Intros & Tutorials

                                                     You want to create a nice Landscape 

                            Terragen (Demo)          Landscape      (Even if Terragen doesn't import 3d object, you

                                                                         can postprocess your image in Paint Shop or

                                                                            Photoshop, and add any element you want.

                                                                         The new version 2, soon to be release will

                                                                          have a 3D object import feature.)                                                                        

                                   To create a 3D Object to begin your Scene, you need a 3D Modeler

                         Modelers :                                          I N T R O S & T U T O R I A L S :

                   Anim8or  (Free)                                    Intro                        Kirby by M. G.

                   Wings3D (Free)                                    Intro                  Place Ville-Marie by D. M.

                   Doga-L1  (Free)                                    Intro                   Modeler / Assembler

                   Amapi    (4.5 Free)  

                       

                               Now you want to see your 3D Model ! You need a software with a renderer.
                        Bryce and Vue have sky and materials presets. Poser have human & animal figures.

                        They can also import your .3ds file of Anim8or and Wings3D,
                        or 3D face .dxf from Doga-L3

                   Bryce5*  (No Demo)                      Landscape           Lesson 1 Intro
                                                                                              Lesson 2 Importing an object 
                                                                                              Lesson 3 Create a texture that apply
                                                                                                            on top of an object

                   Vue d'Esprit (Demo)                 Landscape

                   Poser (Poser 4 Demo Win)      Figures Creation with poses presets and cloths

                           (Poser 6 Demo Win & Mac)

                   Cinema 4D**  (Demo)          Advanced Modeling and rendering

                  *Once the brother of Poser (MetaCreations). Obj from Poser use to import well in Bryce.

                    The settings for exporting in .obj in Poser are : All the Include checked, the three other

                    ones, unchecked (Use, Weld, As Morph).

                  **A less expensive companion to Lightwave. An economic way for movie makers to have

                     a Lightwave companion on some machines, for half the price. That why anything that come

                     from Lightwave , import so well in Cinema 4D. For me Cinema 4D have one of the easiest

                     interface to work with.