Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Cheetah3D Rocks

Those words deserve their own period. Cheetah3D Rocks. Between all the new software toys and all the new hardware toys, I don't mind going without the other for the summer.

Cheetah3D is a deceptively straight forward, deceptively fast 3D modeling application... once you know how to use it. The same goes for Autodesk Maya, which I have been PLE'ing of late. But Maya PLE does not (readily) support FBX or OBJ export, so it is back to the Max-lineage Cheetah3D for now. And Cheetah is cool. Now, as far movie file formats, I will leave you to decide.

Here is my movie.


_After_ rendering it, I was able to save it into a number of movie file formats. I chose these four, and was surprised at the file size differences for this four second animation.

Hello_World.avi
984 KB

Hello_World.mov
860 KB

Hello_World.mp4
128 KB

Hello_World.wmv

The AVI worked well for uploading to U2B; the mp4 played without problems on the HTC. So now I am fiddling with "Super" to convert the best of our video library to mp4 format.
238 KB

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