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About my way

Once i was looking for a 3d application and found Anim8or. In the beginning, Anim8or (about version0.7) was new and great because easy to handle and free. Lateron it was not enough to me to expres my imaginations. I found others that offerd many built-in features like soft shadows, volumetric lights, raytrace reflections, radiosity and so on. At this time the 3d world was still new, a lot of Bryce renderings have been composed. But the day came, the Bryce results have not been satisfacting me anymore, they often seemed to show readymake features, light was hard to turn to realism. So i found 3dsMax with its many plugins for just every purpose. After some vain trys to get some images to gallery of raph.com that means to me somekind of "hall of fame" for 3d artists i was disapionted and returned - back to the roots - modeling and rendering with Anim8or (version 0.9beta). There i found what i was really looking for: a community that shares experiences with all interested, with an outstanding gifted programmer and mentor on its top who wants feedback to make his imagination become real - a 3d application free for all without any comercially background. At this place, special thanks to R. Steven Glanville. In the last time i found out, that many things are possible with Anim8or and ready make effects are not really needed. If you think about a fact for some time, you will find a way to realize. So for instance there are no built-in reflections. But they are possible even without any post production. How ? Just have a look at my "3dsMax to Anim8or" project.