hi guys, im planning to do a animated short,i want to use carrara studio 3,amapi 7,and zbrush for additional modeling and texturing but i really dont know which tool would be the best for compositing.i dont know which tool to take,after effects or adobe premiere.maybe someone of you knows the tools from mainvision.com and can tell that this tools would do a good job too.i want to do the short till the end of 2004 or summer 2005(i dont have a lot of time and very much to learn).

Diagoro, I've got an old version of Multimedia Fusion, that I keep on my hd but don't use much which seems promising for putting it all together. I understand that the company has changed hands since I got my copy and the program is much more advanced now than it was when I got my copy. That might be worth checking out if you're serious about this kind of stuff. As to lipsyncing characters to voices, I don't know what to tell you except that mimic and poser seem to work ok together if that is how you want to go on that. - TJ

Thank you very much for your answer,i will check it out.i know mimic(i dont have it) and i have poser5 but i use poser mostly for anatomy study and some testing stuff i like poser a lot,but for the short movie i have in my head i want to do my own characters and stuff cause i have the feeling when im using ready to use figures that im cheating on myself(sounds a bit stupid but i think you know what i mean).i really dont know if i ever will get this done cause im a really confused man and when some ideas showing up in my head i stop doing a project and start another one(there is so much unfinished stuff on my hd). DAIGORO

Diagoro, I can't go into the specifics without looking a lot of stuff up, but I know it's possible to "poserize" a model and then create morph targets in Carrara so you can use Poser to make them talk, or create other morph dials - or pose your own figures and even make them walk. when it comes to talking there's a bit to it and you should be familiar with phenomes(sp?) to do it, but you should be able to find something about the subject of phenomes(sp?) in freestuff. Not too long ago I made a stickman in C2 which I got to walk in Poser's walk designer just to check it out. Amazingly it worked. I think Nerd, and Bloodsong have the tuts you'd wanna look at to get started, and Stephen Ray has a good one I have reservations about his views on joint parameters, but it's quite good and fairly simple to understand. I don't remember who did the one on phenomes(sp?) but if it's still there you should be able to find it. - TJ

thank you a lot,im checking it out,i know the nerd3d tutorials and some bloodsong stuff but i will lokk a bit closer now,thanks again. Dominik