I’m also very interested in this program. How do volume based bones deform the mesh? Does messiah have synoptics selections and how fast is the playback? Maya, Blender and XSI are a bit slow for playback. Makes it harder for timing I think.
How well do the muscle bones work?
Kayan, thanks for your time to relight this thread. Looking at my questions again it would apear I was after a unrealistic quick soloution.
I know with the proceses iv gone through with modeling, sculpting, texturing, light set up, materials, is a huge amount to get good at, let alone to grasp.
Iv been studying anatomy for over a year now so have realy sort to do things to a good standard, than wack bones in a half finnished character.
Because I like to dig into a application, I normaly perchase many video tutorials and learn realtime. All the other bits I learnt are over time while making steady progress. Iv been playing with Carraras rigging, and have got use to how things work, and how problematic weighting can be. My main concern was lack of training for Messiah.
Iv been using Modo for just over a year now, and have prety much perchased every video and watched them, Im a visual learner. Now Modos manual is not all that great, so some things I have to ask the community for. Time and time again they have saved the day.
Now If messiah has no video training, and a very small community it leaves me feeling im gona shelf the application because I was not geting anywhere too fast. As with any rigging system it has to be directly linked to the finnal render engine somehow. It wouldnt matter how good my rig was, or how well my animations was, if the output is not going to give me faily realistic renders, like Modo, then im not going to want to put effort into the rigging, animation process.
The only way to see if Messiah is capable is to watch demos, and see full production render results. This I cant fine much on so im not convinced from the small amount iv seen. Being that im not wanting to animate cartoon characters, but more real life people, I was unshure if Messiah can produce the goods.
As with setting up the render, I know and except it can take a while to master. I mentioned Lightwave as I found it next to imposible to get even a exceptable render within a few hours of playing with it, basicly I found it to not be intuitive, I dont like that, im not a book worm. That said I know LW can produce the goods so I know if its fails its me. When I was trying the demo I saw how people on the LW forum had a exceptional knowledge of the rendering system and how to set up complicated nodes. Im not a pro, its my hobbie but am willing to put the effort and time into somthing that works within a exeptable time scale. Setting up a scene, lights and materials in Modo is my level, its bliss and I can achive professional results within a few hours.
Id like to see a video with somone taking a character, no matter hw simple or complexed, and rig him/her. Go through the procedure of what is needed to have a complete torso and head even.
Thanks.