Thursday, April 03, 2008

Machinima Set up

Hardware
Cable or DSL connection
2 - 3 External Hard Drives (200GB for making 5 minute movie)
(FireWire 400/800 or High Speed USB 2.0)
Mac Optimized for 3D online game

Software
Second Life Client (free download, accessing 3D online virtual world)
Maya (for modeling sculpty and prims with plugin, texturing, exporting, and animating avatar)
QAvimator (free, for animating avatar)
Quicktime Pro
Final Cut Pro
After Effects
Photoshop
Snapz Pro X (Mac, free trail, real time video capturing tool) / FRAPS (Windows)

Supplemental Software
Ploopp SL (free, for sculpty, 2D painting modeling method)
Audacity (free, sound editing)
Reallusion CrazyTalk & iClone (free trail, Windows only, for lip-sync, facial animation & 3D character animation)

Optional Software
Blender (free, for modeling sculpty and prims, baking textures, exporting, animating avatar, and editing videos, interface is quite complicated, Maya is an equivalent software to Blender)
Lightwave (for sculpty)
Wings 3D (free, for sculpty, not sure if include built-in texture baking)

Optional Equipment
Projector
3DConnexion Space Navigator
(use with Flycam in SL)
Machinima Camera/Lighting Tools
(either free or cost Linden$ in SL / SL Exchange)

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