3D Animation Workshop: Lesson 22: Getting Started in 3-D | 2
Lesson 22 - Getting Started in 3-D - Part 2 So what do we mean,
when we speak of "professional-level" 3-D, and why should we
care? Let's take the second question first. Professional level
3-D graphics is a gold rush fully comparable with the Internet
as a revolutionary economic phenomenon. Demand for persons with
skills in this arena overwhelms supply, and this situation is
only going to become more extreme. In the past, the cost of the
necessary hardware and software inherently limited the market
for 3-D graphics, as we have just said, to the entertainment
industry (and its stepchild, the games industry). But affordable
3-D opens up vast new vistas. Print graphics will increasing go
3-D. 3-D technology is sweeping through architecture and product
design. Realistic 3-D animation as a learning or demonstrative
tool is taking off in educational CD's, corporate presentations
and courtroom demonstrations. The range of possibilities for
this new medium h