Render animation

Skills software and technology
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At my work we do commercial furniture, a large chuck on which is screening systems.

I was directed to this video http://www.awm.net.au/?page=screenSystemsf2

Click on Watch the F2 Installation Video if your interested. Just wondering if anyone knows what program may have been used to make this.

2

We do this stuff all the time at work. Basically you just use a good pano backplate wrapped to an environment. We use max with vray for animations, and Im guessing that is what was used here.

3

I believe for example Modo would be more than capable to do something like that, and so would Blender for that matter.

4

Which would be easier to learn? I know blender is freeware, but don’t want to spend ages learning a new program. I also need to import solidworks files or XT, IGES etc… Looks like I’m up for about $2500 all up with Modo, because I’d need their solidworks importer and advanced cad importer.

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If you are seeing yourself creating animations now and then, then I’d probably go with Modo, for a couple of reasons:

    • It will handle solidworks imports better. (Blender can do this, but I have had a few problems, and you have to use VRML format).
  • It seems more aimed at Designers in general as well as industrial designers. (I believe blender didn’t even use units until fairly recently)
  • I hear the Modo render engine is both faster and often achieves better results than Blenders.