soboyle Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I work at a small arch company (20 employees), no in house rendering. I'm looking to expand my job title by getting into 3d modeling and rendering. We currently use autocad, mostly 2D, I have experience with other 3D programs, pro/E, have taken a 1 week class in 3DS Max about 6 years ago, and have had training in Revit, but we haven't implimented it in the office yet. I need some advice on what modeling/rendering software to start with that will give me the best bang for the buck. I will likely have to take tracing paper sketches and turn them into project proposal renderings/animations. Once we start using Revit then I will likely be using revit as the 3D model source, until then, I will be doing all modeling myself with whatever is fastest. So is 3DS Max recommended, will google sketchup do the job? Other cheap software that is recommended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasteland giant Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 studio max is the best package. Mental Ray that's now built in is very robust. I'd get that. There's a reason why its industry standard for this sort of work. It'd pay for itself very quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfink82 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I would agree, 3D studio is the best programme to use and mental ray is a very good render engine to learn now it has become more intuitive. Utilising Photoshop and After Effects for your post production work will also help greatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 same here, 3dsmax all the way. But good luck convincing your boss to buy you the software and a new computer to run that heavy package on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadmunkey Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I suppose its down to how quickly your boss needs to see a return on his investment? How easy is it to pick up Max and learn it and start producing good work? Sketchup is extremely easy to learn and judging by some of the gallery work on other sites it is a very capable program for very little cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Max all the way, if you go down the sketch up/revit to max route straight away you are going to make life hard to get going. Get max, it has mental ray / vray if you like too. Photoshop and you are good to go. Oh and get ready for some late nights. Im sure you know it but a lot of the work you see on here comes from hundreds maybe thousands of hours of practice. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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