Funnily enough a former student of mine storyboarded a similar idea (long time ago), and he ended up at Aardman, then went on to senior staff at Dreamworks

Nicely done.

There's Odeon, which is pretty high end and isn't cheap at $5K for a seat. There is a free trial though.

Or CARA from Rhintek which I believe includes some simple 3d modelling and is much cheaper ...

Got to agree.
I'm using Max right now, but I prefer Maya for animation. The weird thing is, I couldn't necessarily give a list of reasons as to why, one feature as against another.

I'm an artist in the games industry and have been since 1987, I've worked in 3d since '91, currently freelancing at Crytek for a few months. After being a generalist for so long I'm going to try to ...

Ha, I have the same problem.

But the movie that made me want to do animation was .....

Luxo Jr


Here's why, they were acting, these lamps had no faces, arms, hands and nothing to emote wit ...

That's the reason animation is magic.

The heart of it is about is taking a bunch of ink/pixels/polygons and making them into a character, to the point where the medium is less visible than the cha ...