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Life in Three Dimensions
It may be surprising (or it may not be surprising, depending on your point of view) to note that all of the illustrations for my first two books were created with a completely evil 3D rendering program called Amapi 3D that I received free with a 3D design magazine from the UK.
In all fairness, I can't label Amapi completely evil, as I was only using version 4. I believe that the program eventually made it to version 6 or 7 before the company was purchased and Amapi was discontinued. So it's quite possible that later versions may have actually sported a sensible interface or may not have been as sluggish as molasses on a cold February night or may not ever even been so prone to constantly crashing in a manner that completely corrupted working data files, version 4 however, suffered from all of these problems and more.
To a certain extent, the problems with Amapi 4 make me wonder how I ever managed to complete so many illustrations without going completely BFG on the developers of such a sorry excuse for buggy software.
But somehow my sanity remained intact (well, it's actually pretty hard to damage something that one never had in the first place); however, with several upcoming projects that are going to put my 3D illustration talents to the test once again, I decided that it was finally time to try out a some new 3D design software. Below is the result of 2 days of fiddling with some trial software. I'm pretty happy with the result, looks like it's time to bite the bullet and invest in some serious software!
Posted by Dylon on February 5, 2007 10:15 PM |
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