Captain Jack wrote:
> Dunno... I use Carrara and Cinema 4D for rendering and a little modeling, 
> but neither one is free. They both do bones and animation, though. I find 
> Poser's bone system hard to use, but it's at least a little less expensive.

Well, cheap would be OK too. I have money. I'm just not going to spend $3K 
on a modeling program when I have no artistic abilities. :-)

> I've been hearing great things about the new interface with Blender 2.5, so 
> it might be worth checking out. I never could do rigging in it before, or 
> remember which hot keys did what, but maybe it's gotten easier.

I did a character with bones and an animation (based on tutorials) in 
Blender. It wasn't excruciating, but it was bad enough that I have to 
believe someone has done better. Whether that "better" is less than 
"enterprise/professional" price range, I can't say.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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