This section of CraneDigital.com is designed to provide an overall picture of what it takes to put your 3D project into motion. It's not rocket science, but it's also not as simple as creating a new document in Photoshop, for example.

Each category below will take you to a specific page with more detail. As of the writing of this page, some sections are unfinished, so please drop a note and let us know what you were searching for and we'll do our best to get to it. Thanks for visiting.

Why Use 3D For Your Project?
John Crane answers this question in question & answer style narrative.

Return on Investment
ROI is huge. Learn why.

3D File Translation & Conversions
How to move between 3D programs more effectively

AutoCAD's Revit to SoftImage XSI
An example of leveraging architectural design work done in Revit for animation purposes.

Modeling
Building objects out of polygons. This is the basic premise of 3D. Modeling is what actually creates the objects in your scene.

Texturing (aka Surfacing, Materials, Textures, etc.)
Making a flat, gray polygon look like something other than a flat, gray polygon.

Composition
How to make your scene visually interesting.

Lighting
Just what it sounds like. Specifiy lights to illuminate your scene.

Rendering
Taking your 3D meshes and turning them into flat imagery or animation you can view just like any other picture.

Compositing/Post Production
Once the image or movie is rendered, how you sweeten it up with the little extras that make it look great.

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