im currenty using photoshop for making graohics for coldstone. photoshop is one of the heaviest, currently best art packages around that saves in a ton of formats. also you dont have to buy the latest version. version 5 or 6 will do you just fine and cost hundreds less. you can look on ebay for older versions.

for animating 3d objects i use hash animation master. (url="http://"http://www.hash.com/")http://www.hash.com/(/url)

for making 3d objetcs and editing with some decent animation built in id recomend cinema 4d XL6 or XL7. i dont have it yet but my friend actually uses it at college and prefers it over lightwave.

i have to say if you know the 3d program and hash pretty well then making a set of animations like this is basic training. and the cool thing is, once you have the animations set up you can vary them slightly and crank out new enemies and classes with different models.

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Continuing DJ's recommendations, if you find that the full version of Photoshop 7 is too expensive... you can probably get an academic discount if you're a student. If it's still too expensive, save up your pennies for the academic version of Photoshop Elements 2.0, which is a fraction of Photoshop's price and has nearly all the features.

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I hink have a copy of Photosho aound somewhere... but.....this is probably just gonna take to much time and im lacking sleep as it is... if there was an easier way then creating 700 some frames, each one from scrap, then maybe sure, but woth the current amount of time and effort required to do this and maintain a social life and school stuff theres just no way i can really do this , sorry. > :frown:

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You can go the "Harder" route (In my humble opinion) by drawing 700 frames, but most 3D software packages support batch rendering. I'd rather spend a couple hours on making 3D models (or finding desparate 3D artists/friends etc) and telling my machine to render a batch of jpg files.

Most programs going back to Ray Dream Studio 3.0 Supported this feature. After that's done you can simply run them through Graphic Converter's convert option (gotta love that shareware program) to change them all to pict files. I'm having pretty good success with this method. You might find it more amicable to your social life.

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