I'd strongly recommend Art of Illusion from http://www.artofillusion.org or off the PC World cover CD before last. Runs under Java so you can put it anywhere, and it's unusually fast for Java.
My kids like it, and it has just become good enough for me to do some of my professional animation work on. I don't like Blender's GUI one bit. Vik :v) On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 20:33, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > (3) My son and I would be very grateful indeed to be given a leg-up into the > > use of Blender, and possibly kpovmodeler & PovRay. The software is installed > > and as far as I can tell seems to work, but the human interface seems to be a > > work or art explicity dispatched from hell, and the dear old brain needs a > > bit of help to twig on. Pretty please. > > I can help you with POVray if you would like, since I've been hooked > on it since 1992 (when it was called DKBtrace). Blender I am starting > to play with, but I need to purchase the manual since no docs come > with the package. I might bring my PC if thats OK, since I can then > show you some POVray work I'm 'fiddling' with currently...I can bring > the POV scene files on a floppy for sure, but not many floppy disks > can fit 30+ Megabyte image_maps! :-) > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
