brenthomer opened this issue on Dec 31, 2001 ยท 13 posts
AzChip posted Wed, 02 January 2002 at 12:12 PM
I'm not even using Carrara; I'm still with RDS 5.5. And, yes, I use it (and have used it for a couple years, now) in television production. For ID's, opens and such, I don't need more than the tools available in these programs. I've even created an entire educational video that's set in the future using RDS-generated sets. Just before I left Arizona, I did a news show with the anchor chroma-keyed into a CGI set (RDS-generated, of course). The only comments I got in the program evaluations were, "what a cool set" and "where did we get that set?" Nobody even spotted that it was CGI. Let alone CGI created on a program I bought for about 80 bucks. The tools in RDS and Carrara can produce first-rate braodcast-quality material. If Eovia will just put bones and a killer particle generator in C2, I bet a ton of people in broadcast and cable will start using it for television. As for the higher-end stuff, we don't have any of it here. I'm not opposed to using it (I know my way around Lightwave), but we don't have the budget to buy several thousands of dollars of software when the software we have can produce "real" television.