Hi everyone, I'm trying to help a friend design a product and then animate how it would work in 3D to show potential investors. It's basically a plastic box with a few removable bits and a reversible lid. Is Photoshop the best way to achieve what I'm trying to achieve within the Adobe suite? Any video tutorials would be really helpful if anybody happens to know where I can find some. Thanks so much for your help in advance. Peter 🙂
Photoshop has only very basic modelling abilities (simple extrusions /shapes). Whether they will be capable of modelling your items depends on the shapes. In addition rendering in Photoshop is very slow (it uses the CPU) which may be acceptable on a single frame but on a multiframe animation could tie up your computer for hours or days.
If you are starting out in modelling, I would recommend the free and very powerful Blender 3D application. It renders on the GPU.
I am a great fan of Photoshop, but it is definitely a case of horses for courses here.
Dave, thanks for the response, I really appreiate it. I've downloaded Blender. I had to upgrade my machine to 32GB of ram just to run Photoshop 3D. It's painfully slow. Hopefully I can achieve what I'm trying to with Blender. Thanks again Dave.
Blender is a great 3D tool to learn... don't make the nub mistake of just mucking about with it but goto one of the education sites and get at least basic training
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