The brush is atrocious and the current flash program is worse for animating than when macromedia ran it, adobe has abandoned flash.

Commonly having to draw the same stroke over and over again to get it the right width if I use the brush tool. Pencil tool over-smooths curves and strokes, or makes them jaggy if I turn smoothing all the way off. I like symbols and the timelineĬons: Drawing tools are annoyingly limited. Great shortcuts for cycles or mouthcharts inside symbols. Pros: Easy to navigate timeline and can instantly test and view animation. u/Steenah, /u/Absolutelybatty, /u/Banecroft /u/evilanimator1138 Rending can be difficult, learning curve. Don't get me started on doing anything that's not related to animation, such as assigning textures. Don't have any dreams of animating something that's not standard biped, or having a fancyschmancy facial rig. The Graph Editor just makes sense and timing can be further refined with the Dope Sheet or straight on if one chooses.Ĭons - Motionbuilder is adapted to work with mocapped humans, for use with games. Found Maya to be versatile and rugged for various animal and humanoid body types. Good for modeling and animation, lots of tutorials are out there (Lynda for example) Industry standard when it comes to 3D character animation, plenty of rigs, scripts and tutorials available. As the software is pretty limited in functions, it doesn't take too long to learn.

Very easy to use with mocap, lots of nice things such as easy rigging, IK/FK on every joint, posing tool. Pros - Industry standard if you want to work with mocap. Note: Lynda courses on it as well as greyscalegorillaĬons: intermediate learning curve, interface is kind of dated

Pros: friendly user interface, industry standard for motion graphics, nice rendering settings, integrates with After Effects

Pros: Industry standard and workflow with Adobe Creative Suite, integration with c4d, resources like tutorials are easy to find, scripts can be useful and found easily online.Ĭons: Steep learning curve, expressions can be difficult, random errors. Thanks! I compiled the Pros and Cons for the software of choice and tagged the user(s) with their Pros and Cons.

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