What apps. comprise your 3D work chain?

Just wondering,

What programs other than Blender do you use to support your 3D art?

I.e. 2D paint programs, external renderers, 3d editors, compositing apps.
etc.

well, I use lightwave for 8 hours a day monday through friday 9 to 5. At home other than blender I use wings.

modelling: wings 3d (http://www.wings3d.com/)
animating: blender (http://www.blender3d.com/)
rendering: 3delight (http://www.3delight.com/), aqsis (http://www.aqsis.com/)
compositing: jahshaka (http://jahshakafx.sourceforge.net/)
html: html-kit (http://www.chami.com/), notetab light (http://www.notetab.com/)
2d raster: gimp (http://gimp.org/)
2d vector: coreldraw classic, satori photo/xl (http://satoripaint.com/)
total cost: 0$

modelling: wings, blender, amapi, truespace (booleans only =)
rendering, animation: blender
rendering only: virtualight, lightflow, art*lantis, vue d’esprit
compositing: blender sequence editor (stills: photoshop)
2d raster: photoshop
2d vector: freehand, illustrator, flash

But most of the time only wings, blender and photoshop.

Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Paint, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender… did I mention that I use Blender? No? Well, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender, Blender… (goes on for infinity :smiley: )

Blender 3D (SGI IRIX)
Lightwave 3D 5.6 (SGI IRIX)
Photoshop 7 (Mac OS X)
video editing and DVD Authoring (for 3D menus)
Final Cut Pro 3 (Mac OS X)
DVD Studio Pro 1.5 (Mac OS X)

soon to be:
Lightwave 3D 7.5 (Mac OS X)

Blender
Wings3D
Terragen
Strata3D
Crossroads3D
Paint Shop Pro 7
Photoshop 6
Painter Classic
About 5 different fractal explorers
Mayura Draw 2
Dogwaffle
EVE
Anim8or
Ayam
Aztec3D
Draw3D
Elefont
Hamapatch
HexaGreat3D
IVCON
Knots3D
MarbleClay
sPatch
Stomp3D
Teddy
Treemaker3D
Siren (scanline renderman-compliant renderer)
TrueSpace 1
Amapi 4
GIMP
PovRay
Softy3D
OpenFX
BMRT
Lightflow

All on Windows 2000 Pro

blender 2.23
maya 1.0
3ds max 2.0
terragen
bryce 5(demo)

photoshop5.5
paintshop pro 7
gimp1.2

ehm microsoft foto editor (the basic office one)
paint shop pro
sonic foundry viscosity
sonic foundry vegas
sometimes logic audio
as post post sometimes 21hua.com’s screensaver maker
elefont
avi2mpg

and blender naturally :wink:

usually blender and gimp 1.2, pretty minimal eh? :wink: also i use amorphium 1.0 and amapi 4

but i’m experimenting with external renderers like VirtuaLight, BMRT, aqsis etc.

letsee…
rendering,modeling,animating: Blender
some texturing, minor other stuff: Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro
Landscapes: Terragen
UVMapping: LithUnwrap
Converting: 3D Exploration

In the past:
windows NT-2000
Animation Master 6.0 - 9.0
Photoshop 4 to 5
AfterEffects (4/student edition)
Premier 5
Now:
Linux (Redhat 7.2, Gentoo 1.4RC1)
Blender3D
Learning Houdini Apprentice off and on
Gimp
Compositing I don’t know yet(FilmGimp? Jashaka?)
Editing I don’t know yet (Heroine virtual stuff maybe?)
and there’s always the blender sequence editor.
Planning to check out external renderers (Lightflow, Yafray, Aqsis)
Planning to check out Wings3D if it can ever do ‘real’ subdivision surfaces and if I can get it to compile and run.
Planning to check out Loq Airou if Eskil ever ports it to Linux.

Lets see what do I use:
Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator
Terragen, PlantStudio2, Maya learning edition (man i hate that watermark)
Learning YafRay, VirtuaLight, LightFlow
Pen, Pencil, Marker, NuPastal, Charcol,paint water color … to sketch up ideas to make in 3D. :smiley:
And of course the ultimate tool of all…
Blender, Blender, Blender…Blender… :stuck_out_tongue:
Is their anything I missed?
:stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley: :smiley:
[edit] add Wings3D to the list

hmm, I never knew LW existed for IRIX or any other Unix-like system
except Mac OSX…is that so ??

Lightwave 5.6 ran on both Sun and SGI.
heres an old link and check out the hardware requirement:
http://interneteye3d.com/Reviews2000/Prev/lightwave56/default.asp
From what I read both Sun and SGI came together
From what I read 5.6 is still pretty popular.
Actual Lightwave on IRIX is not to Bad I wish they kept making it on that platform.
Its coming down to Softimage XSI and Maya still on IRIX platform.