Greetings,
For 3D Studio replacement check out Blender:
http://www.blender.nl/
HTH,
DGO
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 20:24, you wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> I've got a friend running a graphic design business and he does a lot of
> 3D illustration as well as 2D illustration. His key applications are
> notepad, PhotoShop, and 3D Studio Max.
>
> Due to the high cost of licensing for all those programs, and Microsoft
> Windows 2000, he is looking for an alternative.
>
> Now, notepad is easy to find an alternate for, the alternate for photoshop
> is the Gimp, and there doesn't appear to be much of a learning curve
> between those two programs either as far as shortcut keys, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea what a good alternative to 3D Studio Max
> would be...
>
> I'm hoping that you guys might be able to help out. If we can find a
> suitable alternative with only a slight learning curve, it may be enough
> for me to use to get him to try out a linux based solution on one of his
> PCs until he becomes comfortable enough to use it on all of them.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate hearing them. As well as any
> other Graphic design/web based programs that would be helpful in swaying
> him...
>
> Unfortunately, I don't do much graphics work, so I'm not too familiar with
> what is available.
>
> Thanks all,
> Lyric
>
> Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 11 days 6 hours 27 minutes.
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