SOFTWARE & TOOLS: A Confusing Bonanza
Oh my. Went to the Alice site at Carnegie Mellon just to rev myself up to finish the dumb Scratch project and pave the way to Alice and for goodness’ sake I found a plethora (love that word!) of information and stuff that took my time up not in doing but in watching (I am a reader not a writer; a watcher not a doer).
Watched some of the student and research team projects and found more and more animation software that led me ever onward and away from Alice herself.
Example, from Panda 3D: Video Gallery–and in particular, Help Me, Carrot Eye.
Didn’t get a chance to wander too far into each to find out what exactly was going on, but I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store since I’ve been shuffling down the street for only a few years and evidently am just now seeing what’s been available for years I guess. Panda 3D is obviously a more elaborate program and one meant for the more skilled and knowledgeable animator, but I just fell in love with the little story in the Video Gallery noted above and now I wanna do that.
Scratch, then, is looking worse and worse by comparison and yet, if I can’t learn to maneuver in that (and following instructions) then it would be useless for me to expect to do anything in the more advanced programs.
ARGH!
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