reccomend a good starting 3d program?

[loyd_christmas]

was wondering if someone could reccomend a good 3d program. im looking for something that is between $500 and $1000. i was thinking about electric image universe or hash animation master, any opinions on these? i use fcp hd, ae 6.5 and photoshop cs, is there a program that works paticullary well with any of these? at this point i think easier to learn is what i want instead of power
thanks

[Rich Lee]

hmm...your on a mac...so i would alos check out Cinema 4D. its pretty widly used.

http://www.maxon.net/index_e.html

[WaveRiderXIX]

If you are going to do some heavy character animation, Hash Animation is definitely a great tool.

[loyd_christmas]

rock on thanks guys

[joachim]

Cinema 4d is definitely one of the most underestimated 3D progs on the market. We did a number of projects with it and always got excellent results. Another good thing is, that two of the Cinema developers are the sons of my former math teacher at school.

[Rich Lee]

cinema 4d gets alot of play in broadcast work. it seems pretty good...its great for little boutique type places.

[Tin2tin]

If you want to try the best 3D freeware, try blender:
http://www.blender.org
Tin2tin

[loyd_christmas]

im gonna go with cinema 4d .now could anybody reccomend any good books on it?

[Taylor Moore]

Yes Cinema 4D is good and has new renderers in it's latest version. Hash is good for Character work but quite unstable, Maya is great but a monster to learn and there is a evaluation version....www.alias.com

[kitsu]

It looks like you already made your decision, but they taught us Cinema 4D at school, and I found it fairly easy to use.