Anim8or for Windows

Get started in 3D modeling and animation the easy way. Anim8or is a great introduction to the world of 3D modeling and animation. You can quickly build basic scenes and animate them.You will need to be patient if you have a particular look in mind. Pros: Easy to make simple animationsTexturingFun to experimentGood for cartoon characterEasy to make pictures from 3dGood for creating a 2d cartoon strip Cons: Working with meshes and joining them is awkwardIts difficult to create realistic figures

Anim8or is OK.. I had been using anim8or since 2005. I love it. There are light sources and shadows but perhaps not as good as the professional packages.Still if you are good enough and patient enough you can produce beautiful scenes even as good as for TV (simple animation scene like POCOYO).I like to produce 3D cartoons and to enhance the scene I always render in bitmap series and edited them in Adobe Flash and other video editor. Adobe After effect is a good editor.I haven't upload mine in Yuotube yet...but I am planning to. Pros: It is tool, good result depends on your skill level and creativity. Cons: You must use other external editors to upgrade your production to broadcast quality.No boolean.Shadows and lighting sources is so-so.

Very good for basic 3D modeling. I have been using anim8or for 6 years and I find it an excellent software to work on - nothing professional, but very good utility value. Basics of 3D are cleared up, and the software is not cluttered with multiple windows or textures popping up. For my work, I am a seafarer, I find I can make out machinery parts, modifications to equipment etc, very easily for others to see and understand, sending them screen shots at different angles. Cons: Creating a user controlled exe file

Animation program, no... Modeling program, Yes. I have used anim8or for a few years now and realise this isnt a program for serious 3d artists or modelers. The UI is fairly clunky and the capabilities are limited... HOWEVER the fact that it is so small and is compatible with the 2 more important object formats .3ds and .obj makes this software very useful, the fact that you can model with the very few, but very useful tools and can model with individual verts means you can have a great deal of control, the raytrace lighting isnt too bad and the scripting side means is can become a fairly powerful tool unfortunately the animation side does let it down a little as there is no physics engine and no collision detection, meaning its nearly impossible to have realistic looking walking cycles or objects hitting each other. Also the weight painting is VERY time consuming and frustrating, when you have to follow each edge individually to find the stray vertex which sticks out when your models move.Personally I like the overall layout although it could be better, it also could be a lot worse and after half an hour you will have mastered where all the buttons are (because theres only about 16)Overall download it but be prepared to use it only when modeling (and even the only occasionaly), because although the animation and rendering is capable, you will need to spend weeks getting the sequences just right before you even start building scenes Pros: SMALL... i mean TINYno installationruns on any computergood for starting out withrenderer is fairly fastit has morph editing Cons: very limitedno physics engineEXTREMELY time consumingnot many rendering effectsno partical generationnon customisable GUI