Easiest Rigging Software

[underearth]

i think you are not looking 4 better solution.. but easy solution.. and its not good

[PEN]

Sounds to me more like a thread that will end up in a flame war. No point to it at all.

I use POV-Ray for all my character work as it is just the best for it. ;)

[vrkaya]

I'm not trying to fuel a potential flame war. I'm just trying to answer the question.

Discounting scripted auto-rigging setups (nothing wrong with them - just think you want to know about rigging from scratch speed) I have still not found anything like pmG's messiah. There's no binding and their Setup Mode is simply ingenious.

Now, I use Maya, too. I bought it for the greater job potential for freelancing, and I really like the rigging and animation features. Maya is very deep in what you can do with it, but it does take more time and experience.

I haven't used everything out there, but from my experience (LW, Hash, messiah, Maya), I vote messiah.

Hope this helps,
Ron

[Donsam]

I personally feel Maya is slower but better option.

Also,Could somebody advice me on how to get a rigged and animated model from max to maya with the animation/IK data intact.

[eek]

The quickest tool I use is Math - its quite amazing. I can use it in maya, max,soft virtually any software package. Else its anim8tor. :applause:

That messiah reel I saw awhile back was very cool though.

[PEN]

Eek, that is exactly why I think that POV Ray is the best, there is no unnessesary UI to clutter the screen and get in the way.

[Illusion-shadow]

I personally think the easiest rigging software is the software you are most familiar with. There are good and bad in every software, but if you are familiar with the software, you can always get around the problem and solve it.

[Promineo]

Yes paul and eek, i think the best software for rigging are your head and your ideas, any software can do any rig, each on different ways, only depends of you ;), you can apply this for everything, model, ilumination, shading, etc. :)

[eek]

Eek, that is exactly why I think that POV Ray is the best, there is no unnessesary UI to clutter the screen and get in the way.

Did I show you my current setup Paul?,



http://villa.langhammer.com/img/hello_c64_basic.gif

Im currently running with 64k of ram!

[PEN]

Now that is what I call a clean UI;)

The questions that was asked is not possible to be answered by anyone that I have ever met in an objective way. I hear people all the time making comments about a piece of software that they have used, only to find you that usage was for about an hour as they played around with it. That is simply not a fair assesment. I actualy wouldn't listen to any ones opinion on a piece of software unless they have used it in major production, that mean they did more then try and model some thing in it for a job they had picked up one week. They actualy need to have sit through several months of working with the tool in production with a team of people. This is the only way that you can really learn what software is capable of.

Taking the above into consideration I don't know any one that has done this with every piece of 3D software there is, so asking which is the best will get a very biased answer every time.

Illusion-shadow said it best, the easiest software is the one that you know the best. For instance, I have worked on features as well as series in both Max and Maya as senior TD and know both very well. However I have been using Max longer and know it just that much better. For me I find Max the better solution for me, is it better then Maya or Maya better then Max, I'll let some one else waist their time with that argument. If I were to answer this thread with Max is the best well I cant say that iether as I have not done major productions in all the other softwares, I have played with XSI, I have watched demos in just about all the others but in no way does that mean that I know them enough to say that they can or can't do the job.

For this reason...All hail POV Ray! and it will run on Eeks Commador.

[eek]

I am thoroughly sick of best app tools, it's why I either mock these discussions or not even take part. The best riggers I know, dont even think in terms of the software, were basically saying 'What if' and pushing the tool to make it happen. Its not a case of 'which is best' its a case of 'what you like' to use - and this no one ever asks. Im reading up on Calculus atm and not even thinking how stuff will be acheived, all I care about is the idea, getting it down, and achieving it. The same can be said of animation, i studied 2d animation way before I started using a computer to do it. Why isnt this the case with rigging?

As for POVray its the shiznits!, hard coding command lines are so much fun!

[GreggeryPeccary]

As for POVray its the shiznits!, hard coding command lines are so much fun!

Is that sarcasm I detect? Don’t disrespect POV-Ray, it’s where I do all my best work. And rigging is so easy, you just convert your models to parametric isosurfaces. All you need is a doctorate in mathematics. Simple! :D

[colinmaxwell]

Moderator :- can these replies be transfered to the Smartarse forum?

[eek]

Is that sarcasm I detect? Don’t disrespect POV-Ray, it’s where I do all my best work. And rigging is so easy, you just convert your models to parametric isosurfaces. All you need is a doctorate in mathematics. Simple! :D

No sarcasm, seriously i used command line stuff, with cygwin, unix using maya shell. Its pretty nifty once you get the hang of it. As for the doctorate I hear ya! those sigraph papers!

[GreggeryPeccary]

No sarcasm, seriously i used command line stuff, with cygwin, unix using maya shell. Its pretty nifty once you get the hang of it. As for the doctorate I hear ya! those sigraph papers!

Sorry, I seem to have lost the ability to tell when people (including myself) are joking.

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We have one of those? Where? Sign me up!

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