Suggestions about 3D graphics/Animation software

Hey,I am gathering suggestions on what would be a good moderately priced software package for 3d graphics/animation.
If you have any thoughts on 2d graphics software,let me know also.
I want something that I can enter the image and then easily change just parts of the image as I make corrections.
Animation S.ware,would be better as I want to do some moving pics.
I will list some S.ware that I have seen so far:
>Manga Studio Debut 3.0
>Eovia Carrera 4 Standard,anim./3d graphics
>Manga Studio Pro and EX Pro
>Poser 6/Shade LE Animation
Any comments would be appreciated,thanks!

CattyN

Photoshop is the best for any form of 2-D manipulations.

A nice cheap 3-D program is TrueSpace, but makin' humanoid figures and moving them is very hard. Poser works best for that, but it's been used so much that it's overdone.

Omoikane

Yeah, Photoshop is great to use for 2-d works.

3-d, not sure. Right now, I learning 3ds Max, since I'm learning it in school. I haven't used any other programs though.

digdug-lee

Oh,and when I say images,I am going to use my own drawings.Line and ink.
Im just learning basics of some of the stuff thats out there.
Sorry,I should have said that I was aiming at animation work.
So far, the Manga Studio Debut 3,is the cheapest way I have seen to do some of the animation stuff.
Until I can get better,then I will invest in something more complicated.
I was just hoping that somebody may have been dabbling with these programs.

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deleted_20091014

Cinema 4D is what I use for 3D modelling... it has all the tools I need and specialises in animating it... I don't know about the price, but I don't obtain my software legally, so price is no conern of mine.

digdug-lee

Alrighty

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SparkyFox
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I would suggest DAZ Studio.

digdug-lee

I do not think that Ive seen that.
I havent been looking around for awhile.
Is DAZ what its actual name is or is that short for something?Thanks.

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