Where is Maxon?

[Gary David Bouton]

Can you guys who are in love with BodyPaint 3D help us out and post the URL for Maxon?

I typed "Maxon" in Explorer, and that address is occupied by a tractor parts company!


Thanks,

Gary David Bouton
www.boutons.com
Gary@GaryWorld.com
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[Gary David Bouton]

Can you guys who are in love with BodyPaint 3D help us out and post the URL for Maxon?

I typed "Maxon" in Explorer, and that address is occupied by a tractor parts company!


Thanks,

Gary David Bouton
www.boutons.com
Gary@GaryWorld.com
Visit a really large gallery at www.GaryWorld.com!

[Dan Huff]

Hi Gary! Try this link out: BodyPaint 3D

I used Hotbot.com, just typed in BodyPaint 3D and it was the first one on the list.

By the way, I love your fireworks!

Danny Huff
http://www.asherrocks.com
(I'm the guy who USED to have a lot of excess hair)

[Earl]

Their address isn't a .com location, but rather a .de site. www.maxon.de

Their "American pages" are located here: Maxon

[Erik Heyninck]

and some interesting tutorials can be found at:

http://209.235.0.90/tutorials_cinema4D.cfm

Isn't it a shame? Maxon is German, and part of the European Community, like where I live. And we have to pay an extra 16% of tax to buy...

Macromedia are the more clever: for a little more than the price I'd pay here in Belgium for Dreamweaver4, I could download DW4, Fireworks4 and Flash5. The manuals are on their site as PDF's. Which company does better?

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[Gary David Bouton]

Hello Erik---

I totally agree that many software companies that we like produce software that is then marketed by idiots. This is why Scott Adams is so successful with his comic strip "Dilbert".

Take a look at MetaCreations. This is the first company to my knowledge that was doing great fiscally, but simply decided to commit suicide because the principals were moving on to other endeavors.


Kindest Regards,

Gary David Bouton
www.boutons.com
Gary@GaryWorld.com
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[mom_de_bomb]

Ok Gary, now it's ON! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Sharon P.
www.fischerpassmoredesign.com

[Bob C.]

Sharon P.

I gotta tell you your fireworks animation is wonderful - plays well etc. I could even “hear� the pops bangs and BOOMS at the end, well done.

I too have been interested in a gif anims and use CorelDraw’s Photopaint 7. I spend much of my time in this forum reading the Xara posts. Xara is a vector program and does animation as well(they can get exported as gif anims) SO I tried making animation’s in Corel Draw then converting to a bit map ...etc..etc. Worked very well and made smaller files.

Using a Vector program to draw was
somewhat “counter intuitive� but it gets better and you gain he enormous benefit of being able to always (mostly) edit your drawings. I finally broke down and bought XaraX ( was gonna upgrade to Corel10 - might still) It is an amazing program and made the transition from raster to vector much easier.

I‘m still a novice with it but it gives great freedom.

One more thing, in Corel Draw on an 8.5� x 11� page I would make a box the size of the animation and copy and paste this till I had the correct number of “frames� that seemed to work well for me. I would then make the animation and convert each “frame� for the animation. I used Ulead’s GIF Animator for timing editing etc.

Thanks for sharing your fireworks post.


Gary,

Your posts almost always include a pic of some kind. I enjoy seeing your talent displayed and what a cleaver way to challenge or stimulate others visiting here. Thanks for moderating this forum!

Bob C.

[Gary David Bouton]

Hey Sharon--

I didn't mean to step on your fuse, there. <g>. I almost never do exploding things, but it was New Year's and I wanted to add a very small fireworks animated GIF to our site. It took me longer to optimize the sucker than to create it.

Once again, I used Macromedia Extreme 3D and a particle system or two to make my fireworks.

Bob, I'm glad you like the "postcards" I write. I'm trying to show stuff here that tells a story...once you've fairly mastered modeling, the trials and trail's are only beginning. I was watching "A Bug's Life" on tape last night, and realized after a while that I'd totally bought into the animation...the CG became transparent, and all I had to do is soak up the story. Trivia: Who was the voice of Hopper the Grasshopper in Bug's Life? Answer: Kevin Spacey.

Kindest Regards,

Gary David Bouton
www.boutons.com
Gary@GaryWorld.com
Visit a really large gallery at www.GaryWorld.com!

[mom_de_bomb]

no fuse stepped on here. I'm laughing my head off.

I did mine in PHOTO-PAINT by the way.

Sharon P.
www.fischerpassmoredesign.com