Re: Animation for Television

Houdini is also very complete and works very well on Linux.

Dragos


Alan Jones wrote:
> Sri, if you do go for a commercial package I'd have a hard time
> recommending which to go with. If you will have a fair amount of
> particle effects I'd have to say pass on XSI - though it's my
> preferred application generally. Issues you'll have using XSI will be
> particles (until the next version) and finding good, experienced
> artists (TDs and I mean real TDs not guys who can write a few lines of
> VBs are gold dust in the XSI community - even more so XSI TDs who know
> linux - There aren't many of us around). Maya you'll have an easier
> time finding artists and TDs though I can't speak much to it in
> production as I was a mental ray specialist when working with it in
> production and didn't really use it for much beyond coding shaders and
> rendering.
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