Re: advice on animation software please

Hello Dan (et al),

I looked at the features of Dogwaffle and I'm impressed.

I'm just starting out into electronic animation and I'm looking for a
program that will allow me to do the following:

- Take a static digital photograph and animate (in photo realism) a
particular scene. For instance, I have a static photograph of a deer
and doe and I want to make them walk off the photograph.  
I've experimented with painstakingly redrawing parts of the deer and
doe using the clone and masks functions in Photoshop but this is just
ridicules. 

- What I need is software that will allow me to build and texturize a
3D wi reframe.  Can your software do that?

Even if it cannot, it still looks useful for other projects; I
especially like the Optipustics Particle system and animated brushes.

If there is a more appropriate package I could use, please recommend.
I have a budget of about $800.00 if I really need to spend a lot.

Thank you,
SDC




[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Ritchie) wrote:

>I'd like to mention my own animation software - Project Dogwaffle.  It
>started life as a freeware painting app, and there's still a free
>version, but now there's also a more powerful commercial version.  The
>cost is only $45, but don't let that fool you.  This is a powerful
>system.
>
>Here are just a few of the animation features
>http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/whatsnew/1_6/index.html
>
>Full details are here.
>http://www.squirreldome.com/
>
>
>Feature list:
>
>Fast and realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles. Tablet
>support.
>Custom and procedural, antialiased brushes and fill types.
>Over 90 FX filters.
>Real-time, full screen image processing.
>Multiple undo's. Interactive undo.
>Automatically recognizes loads of file formats (about 60).
>Basic layer mixing with buffers. Mix buffers in a variety of ways.
>Use one buffer to displace, composite, or generally modify another.
>Bluescreen, greenscreen and color keying.
>Full alpha channel support. Paint on alpha.
>Make seamless textures.
>Animation. Load and save sequences in a number of formats. 
>nion skin.
>Animated brushes and animated brush painting.
>Stroke player.
>Paint and animate particles. Paint fractal trees in real-time.
>Radiant - Advanced lens flares.
>Fieldpack - Intelligent deinterlace and video retiming.
>Manage colors with Drag and Drop or create a palette automatically.
>Modify the interface to suit your preference.
>Simple, versatile plugin interface. 
>No-pester, non-limited free version.
>
>Dan Ritchie
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.squirreldome.com