NudeRiver

wonders

if anyone has much experience in using Carrara by Daz or Esprit by E-On Software or Poser?

17 responses to this plurk

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:25AM

  NudeRiver

  I bought all 3 of them years ago, but never had much time to make too much use of them...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:26AM

  NudeRiver

  My idea was always to make a animation movie or beautiful images with them...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:26AM

  NudeRiver

  I sort of bought them, played with it a bit -- then got too busy with other things... forgot about it...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:26AM

  NudeRiver

  then... a year or so later get email about upgrading to the newer version...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:27AM

  NudeRiver

  Just got an offer like that for Esprit in my email bucket... the latest version is 8.0 and the last one I bought was 6.0...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:27AM

  NudeRiver

  Basically, $99 to upgrade

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:28AM

  NudeRiver

  It's like, if I already invested like $200 in buying the software 2 years ago -- that means I planned to use it... but, I never really did

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:29AM

  NudeRiver

  but... if I do go to use it... I should pay the extra $99 for the newer version... I don't know if I'll have the time though

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:30AM

  NudeRiver

  given I have so little time for hobbies like this, I need to choose which software is best to use my time on

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:32AM

  NudeRiver

  So, the choice is, Carrara Pro 6.0, Poser 7.0, or Vue 8.0 Esprit

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:32AM

  NudeRiver

  Plus, I have free access to Maya software too...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:33AM

  NudeRiver

  I also have Bryce 6.0

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:54AM

  NudeRiver

  the whole idea, there are two ways to make beautiful images -- go out and try to find them outside... and maybe hire models

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:55AM

  NudeRiver

  or... create them on the computer...

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:57AM

  NudeRiver

  film makers these days have the same decision to make ... to achieve a particular look, cost/time trade-offs, reality or computer effects

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 02:58AM

  NudeRiver

  Or like with photography... how much post-processing to do? Is the original un-retouched photo better than the photoshopped one?

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  Feb 09, 2010 - 03:00AM

  NudeRiver

  Of course... reality and natural are better in the end... a real sunset, a real waterfall, so much better than one inside a computer