One more question before purchase 2004-02-25 - By debadger
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Heh. A:M animates a lot better than Carrara. Carrara is fantastic for
stills and has a nicer native procedural texture generator.
A:M mutates, upgrading constantly which can be confusing as features appear,
disappear and change behavior. While this means the users are finding bugs
even in released versions it also means the bugs ARE getting squashed - find
a bug and it's gone usually within a month. Buy the software early in the
year and you're able to download about 13 months' of upgrades, pay the
subscription and you're good for another year's upgrades. Skip a year or
more, no worries, pay your subscription and you're sent the same latest
version those who have been paying every year get.
Carrara's slower to update but its features DO remain stable, giving you a
chance to actually learn the software.
Both groups have very active user group lists, which is good because neither
software's manual is up to date or accurate (a fact I bitch about constantly
on both lists, so you may not need to pay attention to this)
What do you want to do? Generate fabulous stills or fabulous animation?
Carrara's greatest strengths are its render engine, procedural textures and
its ability to import models generated in other software. A:M's greatest
strength is its fabulous animation and native modeling ability - it does
import, but the imports are suitable as props or '3D rotoscopes'. I believe
both will export to other applications, but since I don't use this feature I
can't say how good they are. A:M has been used for generating gaming
graphics, which means they must have a plugin that exports them.
I'm more familiar with Carrara only because I've owned it much longer and
have actually used it for work - generating beauty shots of product concepts
for my day jobs. A:M seduced me because it started life from the ground up
as an animator's software - it's a bitch to learn to model well (a fact
that's true no matter what application you use), but I've seen realistic A:M
organics that just blow Poser imports right out of the water. It also has
hair and cloth, native to the application.
Elena
-- --Original Message-- --
From: mykyl1966 [mailto:mykyl@(protected)]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:10 AM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: [Carrara] One more question before purchase
I have been drifting between Carrara and Animation Master for this
purchase.
I almost dread to think what the answer will be with Carrara folks
here lol (Although at a Truespace forum I got recommended not to buy
lol).
Anyway has anyone here used both. What pro's and cons are there for
both packages.
Cheers
Mike R
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