First thing I made with a 3D program

**JohnLogan1973** · 07 August 2004, 05:21 AM

Thx everyone for the comments,i'm still a bit hungover but my braincells are slowly wakin up.

I'm gonna try all the programs I've heard of here,I only have one problem I don't know all the shortcuts people use for the programs names like C4D (cinema 4d).took me awhile to figure that one out.

Here are some of the programs I already have.
Art rage
Blender
bryce 5
poser 5
rhino
silo
sketchup 4
wings 3d
zbrush
Untill now I only tried Poser and Sketchup.
The rest i'll try out soon.Have to say most programs are gifts for my birthday.

I have some other 3D programs but those are Architect programs and most are Dutch Home and garden programs,and are pretty old.

Okay that's all the info I have for you right now. Thx again for all the comments.

P.S. 3D classes may be a little to early for me I like to doodle around in a program first so I know my way around a bit more and this forum is a great solution when I get stuck with something, as soon as I get more relaxed in the word of 3D i'm sure i'll take some of the great 3D classes out there.

JohnLogan.

**gidgit** · 07 August 2004, 01:30 PM

Hi John...

You have a ton of 3d apps there, and so long as you are able to create toon chars with any, then for sure, render in Poser, as you have, thus making use of Poser's ability to, um, Pose your models in different poses...

Rather than trying to fudge with the settings of various toon plugins, I would concider simply using the 3d apps to gain the scenes, and various poses, and then doing post work within a 2d editor... smudge, outlining etc...

From the looks of your paintings on your site, this method may just be right up your alley

Then again NPR ( Non Photo Realistic Rendering ) has improved some over the last year and perhaps there are some plugins which would be more precise than the ancient options at my disposal... either way, I would still very much consider a blend of strengths between 3d, as well 2d, for those Tooning needs...

**gidgit** · 07 August 2004, 02:15 PM

Here's something I worked on today, don't really know if this is what you are aiming for... I mean there are areas in this that could certainly be improved upon, maybe the gif step could be skipped, and the texture added is purely optional, but I had some fun in 2d today, so thanks for that eh, I hope ya like it

**Mike Bailey** · 07 August 2004, 03:32 PM

Happy birthday John, you have some great software.

Thats pretty cool postwork Gidgit.

**JohnLogan1973** · 11 August 2004, 05:02 PM

Hello everyone.
Phew this 3D stuff is a lot harder then I thought I got me a Program called ReadPlease to read all the tutorials for me(I got a headache after 6 hours of reading) Now i'm ready to show a small update.So far I like Poser and Zbrush the best, but I'm still in the starting stage so that may change later on.The Background image was made by RamWolf so I can't take credit for that, but I liked it so much I wanted to experiment with it.
Here's the update Image.

JohnLogan.