To be honest, they are pretty good, but don't have the depth of the Softimage tools. I guess it depends on what type of character you need to make and how it is going to animate.
If you need tools to create realistic motion, it will be doable but harder than Softimage for sure. If you are doing stylized toon character motion, the tools stack up very comparably. I am mostly a VFX guy, not a character animator, so definitely mix that in to your equation about how to gauge my response. I have a couple friends who are character animators, and that is generally how they feel about the tools. That said, great work can be done in almost any application with enough effort, as all the apps, even Blender, have the basic tools needed to create great work. The amount of effort to get your character animation to be great may vary from tool to tool. But again, I view a lot of this through a VFX lens, with the amount of character animation I have had to do being somewhat limited over the years (and most of it was in Maya back in the day). On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:55 PM, phil harbath <[email protected]> wrote: > I am curious how the character tools stack up to Softimage, I find it hard > to leave Softimage because of the strong character tools. > > *From:* Perry Harovas > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 17, 2017 10:53 PM > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List.https://groups.google. > com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list > *Subject:* Re: T-Gen for Softimage > > That is the thing... > > In 3 years, I have never once needed support! > It is rock solid stable and the few questions I had, shich were about how > I could > accomplish something (not about issues I was having) were answered by the > C4D community. > > I was so enamored with C4D I actually went to NAB this year to do a 50 > minute talk at the Maxon booth about it. > > If you are interested, here is the link where I talk a lot about my > experiences in other software and show some projects > I did in C4D. In a couple of them you can see the insane detail I was able > to achieve on a single computer with a sub-awesome graphics card. > > http://c4d3d.com/2qoOz9T > > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> That helps a lot. It is good to hear from a happy user >> We will definitely have a very look at C4D and Redshift is out on alpha >> for C4D. >> How do you find the support for C4D? >> >> >> On 5/17/2017 10:27 PM, Perry Harovas wrote: >> >> Honestly I could not be any happier. >> Sure I miss ICE, but for 99% of the things I have to do, C4D is actually >> a lot easier than even Softimage was. >> Not to say it is better, but in my book easier is (in a certain way) >> better because it gives you more time for iteration. >> >> The tools are easy to learn, there is no lack of power, and frankly my >> work has gotten better because of it. >> >> I used Maya for 9 years and Softimage for 10 years before switching to >> C4D. >> >> There is stuff I do every day in C4D that I would never have attempted in >> Maya, would have been fine with doing >> in Softimage (but it would have taken longer) and with he addition of >> Octane as my renderer, I feel I have the best >> imaging ability I have ever had. >> >> I tried Houdini and sure, it is really powerful, but the effort required >> to harness that power was just not worth it >> for the vast majority of what I work on. For the few times it would be >> useful, I can always turn to Houdini for that power (and I have). >> >> But that has only happened 2 times in 3 years and in the time since, I >> found that had I known about a feature or plugin, it would have been >> better and faster in C4D than it was in Houdini. >> >> I know this sounds like I am doing a sales pitch for C4D here, but I am >> not. >> It isn't perfect, but neither was/is Soft. It is just so much less >> stressful I can hardly even explain it. >> >> Hope that helps you a bit! >> >> >> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Perry, >>> >>> Thanks for your input. Sooner or later we have to switch, are you happy >>> with C4D? >>> >>> Leoung >>> >>> On 5/17/2017 6:20 PM, Perry Harovas wrote: >>> > I purchased Forester for C4D since I am not using Soft anymore. One of >>> the best purchases I've ever made. Really great software. >>> > >>> > Sent from my iPhone >>> > >>> >> On May 17, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Sven, thanks so much, I will look into Forester. >>> >> >>> >> Leoung >>> >> >>> >>> On 5/17/2017 2:32 PM, Sven Constable wrote: >>> >>> I have an old beta version (0.77) Can send it to you off list. Did >>> you check >>> >>> Forester? Goes far beyond T-Gen. >>> >>> https://www.3dquakers.com/forester-for-softimage-2/ >>> >>> >>> >>> Sven >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Leoung O'Young >>> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 7:40 PM >>> >>> To: xsi >>> >>> Subject: T-Gen for Softimage >>> >>> >>> >>> Can one still get T-Gen for Softimage? >>> >>> >>> >>> I googled it and the link is dead. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> Leoung >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> odesk.com with >>> >>> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> odesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ------ >>> >> Softimage Mailing List. >>> >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> odesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> > ------ >>> > Softimage Mailing List. >>> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> Perry Harovas >> Animation and Visual Effects >> >> http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> >> >> -26 Years Experience >> -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > > -- > > > > > > Perry Harovas > Animation and Visual Effects > > http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> > > -26 Years Experience > -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) > > ------------------------------ > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -26 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
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