I'd like to see some more serious functionality added to Avid 3D 3.0, myself. For $1000 less, you can get softimage XSI 5.0 Foundation, which provides 5-to-10 times the power of Avid 3D.
For $500 more, you can get the mid-range softimage XSI 5.0 Essentials, with paint, compositing, and other extras. For those that dont know XSI is Valves recommended 3D modding tool for Half Life 2. My main gripe about Avid 3D is its price, $1495. SoftImage XSI has a free Mod tool available. Otherwise, they offer you Avid 3D for easy 3D, great-looking elements in your video compositions. Put it this way: Avid WANTS you to buy softimage XSI if you need its capabilities. Twister fits neatly into the version 3.8 workflow and provides a transition platform to the next generation of Softimage products. It's limited, but it's growing with every release. SOFTIMAGE3D version 3.8 is designed to work in conjunction with Twister, the interactive rendering product that combines the power of the next generation of the mental ray® renderer with the interface and architecture of Sumatra. What it was designed to be is an easy-to-use 3D application that allows editors to create and integrate 3D objects into their video editing projects. Avid 3D may be fairly limited in its feature set, but lets remember what it wasn't designed to be: a full-featured 3D animation application. Whether or not they are the same program I'm not sure.
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As for how you'd integrate it or Maya into your Xpress workflow, the best thing I could think of would be to complete your scene in your 3D app, then render out the movie and import into Xpress Pro.Īvid 3D is supposedly based-off of softimage 3D (which is now defunct and has been for several years). Get softimage XSI for TRUE 3D animation abilities.
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