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| Sparow89 |
 Posted: 07/04/2008 13:28 PM Post subject: Graphic design tools |
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| What design tools do you all use for the graphic schematics. I know MS paint is one, but what about the animated ones? |
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| blind909 |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 13:31 PM Post subject: |
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| For a start, you could click on the link in my signature. |
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| Sparow89 |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 13:36 PM Post subject: |
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| I'm not stupid. I already searched everything I could think of. And I kept coming up with thousands of posts that have nothing to do with what I am trying to find. |
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| sandman |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 13:37 PM Post subject: |
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animations can be done in Gimp, Photoshop, or Fireworks
3D modeling and animation can be done in Blender(what i use), 3DSMax
i only listed the most common, there are many many more you can use |
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| Hotwired |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 13:40 PM Post subject: |
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You can't go wrong with MSPaint for mock-ups
If you're actually machining to some kind of accuracy that needs better measurement than using a ruler then at the very least you need a more sophisticated graphics program or even a CAD program.
I'll probably end up doing the mock-ups for my currently believed-to-be-next cannon in a copy of GIMP because at 1.5m the blasted thing isn't very manageable on paint which can't scale things down and still be able to work on the details.
GIMP is a free photo editing program similar but lesser to Photoshop.
However since I've spent hundreds of hours on GIMP before getting Photoshop I feel a lot more comfortable with it and can't see much point in learning the extra bits in there for no good reason.
I use MSPaint for animation frames as it's simpler to move things about then I drag each frame to GIMP and glue them together in a .gif file. |
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| Sparow89 |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 13:59 PM Post subject: |
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| potatoflinger |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 14:01 PM Post subject: |
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| Google Sketchup. It is fairly simple, but it certainly isn't the best. |
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| MrCrowley |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 15:20 PM Post subject: |
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| Sparow89 wrote: | | I'm not stupid. I already searched everything I could think of. And I kept coming up with thousands of posts that have nothing to do with what I am trying to find. |
Search for Keywords:
You can use AND to define words which must be in the results, OR to define words which may be in the result and NOT to define words which should not be in the result. Use * as a wildcard for partial matches
I just searched 'design AND program', came up with at least 5 topics about what you are looking for from a possible 42 or something. That's what you need to try and do when searching.
I'm not telling you off or anything, just letting you know your searching can be improved just by adding those words like 'AND', 'OR' and 'NOT'. |
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| Davidvaini |
| Posted: 07/04/2008 15:36 PM Post subject: |
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| MrCrowley wrote: |
I'm not telling you off or anything, just letting you know your searching can be improved just by adding those words like 'AND', 'OR' and 'NOT'. |
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| Sparow89 |
| Posted: 07/05/2008 20:46 PM Post subject: |
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| FiveseveN |
| Posted: 07/06/2008 3:59 AM Post subject: |
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SketchUp is excellent for sketching directly in 3D. I've been using it for about 4 years now. But for quick mock-ups you can't go wrong with a pen(cil) and paper.
I might be biased but I think learning to draw proper plans and diagrams helps one's engineering skills. |
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