Research questions

[Kenns321]

Hello,

 

I am a graphic designer for a manufacturing company and they have requested that I look into creating my own REALISTIC 3d roomsets to showcase our products (fireplaces). The products themselves are created in ProE by our R&D team, and they also would like to have a program that allows for interactive animation for consumers on the web. Is 3d Studio the best program for this? Pros? Cons? Right now we are using CS4 for all of our other marketing needs, and I would like something that is compatible with this.

 

Basically, I am starting from scratch in 3d imaging, and any advice that you could pass on would be fantastic!

 

Thanks!

[innerdream]

Hello,

 

I am a graphic designer for a manufacturing company and they have requested that I look into creating my own REALISTIC 3d roomsets to showcase our products (fireplaces). The products themselves are created in ProE by our R&D team, and they also would like to have a program that allows for interactive animation for consumers on the web. Is 3d Studio the best program for this? Pros? Cons? Right now we are using CS4 for all of our other marketing needs, and I would like something that is compatible with this.

 

Basically, I am starting from scratch in 3d imaging, and any advice that you could pass on would be fantastic!

 

Thanks!

 

I don't know your skill level or what the powers that be expect in terms of quality. I think you can count on a year of learning before you will be able to make professional looking interiors in Max. Just my experience.

[beestee]

You don't need a year's experience in Max with something like this available:

 

evermotion archInteriors

 

But you would probably need VRay in addition to Max, and you would still have some learning to do to be able to modify these prebuilt environments and integrate your own content...but it would be a big head start. The experience you would pick up just through dissecting some of these models would most likely get you on your feet in much less than a year.

[Devin Johnston]

It would probably be cheaper to just hire someone to do the work for you considering max and vray together would be around $4500.

[Claudio Branch]

 

The products themselves are created in ProE by our R&D team, and they also would like to have a program that allows for interactive animation for consumers on the web.

 

 

This will greatly help save you some modeling time:

 

http://www.novedge.com/products/2475