# any 3D animators here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 12, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124 "2000-06-12T15:36:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/1 "2000-06-12T15:36:03Z")

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just wondering… yep.

the message board at [highend3d.com](http://highend3d.com) has been somewhat empty lately.

so, yeah. COME FORTH!

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**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/2 "2000-06-12T15:43:24Z")

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Been doing 3d animation for about a decade now. Originally I used Aladdin4d on the Amiga, but for the past two years I’ve been struggling to learn lightwave. Currently I’m using 5.5 but hope to upgrade to 6.0 soon

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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/3 "2000-06-12T15:45:59Z")

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neat.

i am learning maya right now.

we use lightwave 6.0 here at work.

i am looking for someone to answer some MEL (maya embedded language) scripting questions.  
what kind of stuff do you do, rubes?

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/4 "2000-06-12T16:05:11Z")

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I’m a hardcore Lightwave jocky myself!

I’d love to learn maya for the charactor animating aspects, but for the time bieng I’m stuck with metamation and skelegons, oh well.

What do you do anyway?

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**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/5 "2000-06-12T16:53:00Z")

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myself, i shoot and edit.

i am getting somewhat bored with it, that is why i am learning maya.

i’m at a production house in toronto.

what about you?

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**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-3d-animators-here/22124/6 "2000-06-12T18:04:10Z")

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I do animation all day, mostly in the German software\*\*[Cinema4D](http://www.maxon.net/usa/index.html)\*\*.

It’s mainly used for TV ad embellishment.  
It has a lot of automatic explosion modes, etc.

Since most of my work ends up on web pages, it might seem like overkill, but it makes an amazing difference over the Dreamweaver ilk.