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Alpha2:

While anim8or has one of the easiest to understand user interfaces the problem is that it's a hobby program and it's not going to teach you how other programs work.

I have to disagree with you about that last part of that statement. Sure Anim8or doesn't have all the the special bells and wisels that professional 3d programs have like IK, some type of physicis, and special modeling tools such as boolean, shrink wrap, deformers, etc...
But the modeling interface is all too familar with other 3d programs like maya and 3ds max. I use maya now, and when i first opened it up I saw all of these menu options that I had no clue what they did or how to use them. But when I saw the left side tool bar in maya, the first thing that came to mind was, hey that looks just like anim8or.

With that aside, after using anim8or for about a year and a half before I got maya, I already knew the basics of what I wanted to do in maya, which is model a desent character. After the model is done you can move on to special effects and fancy rendering. If you want to talk about programs that looks alien compared to professional 3D programs, take a look at Blender. Blender is a great program as well, and it can do all the things that professional programs can do. But Blender relies to much on key board shortcuts, rather than menu items, and you have to look really hard to find the menu that you are looking for, if it even exist. Like there is no move tool in blender. You have to right mouse click and hold to move what you want to move. Professional 3D packages like maya and 3Ds Max don't do that.

I will tell you now that using a green man and using chrome key to replace him with your cel shade character will be rough. Only because to lights in anim8or will make different areas on the green man different shades of that color, and that will give you a spotty image in the end. But good luck.

I added his legs and now i am sure that i am going to start over on this part. I like the chest but the middle section is way off. I'll post a wire frame later today.

Maya's geometry sculpt tool as it is called. Isn't like the one in zbrush, I don't think so anyway.I may be wrong since I never used zbrush, but zbrush is more advanced than the sculpt tool in maya is. zbrush adds polys to the model where as the one in maya just push them around. That and I never used displacement maps before and don't know how to use them. I've used bump maps but I think that you make them and they work differently.

also, this is the hi res version. Meaning I sub divided the model after I finished modeling it.

Lol. Thanks Gamemaner1234. Doing the arms and upper body isn't really hard, it's just I'm now trying to model characters with muscle definition in them. And that's whats making it a pain for me.

rellik420
 Thanks. I tried to avoid having triangles on this model two. And yea I am still working on the chin. For some reason I can't get it right.

Here is an update. I'm now working on the upper body.

When you export a model from anim8or in the .3ds format to blender only the material reference will be exported not the actual texture. So you would have to reassign the texture files to the correct node in blender once you import it. Hopefully you gave the material settings in anim8or good names.

Ok then. Well here is a new wire frame, I'll start posting the wire frame with every update.