Looking at some of the recent posts and seeing a mixture of rendering (POVray) and animations, just wonder if anyone uses Art Of Illusion to generate the frames for processing in GIMP.

Does not have all the bells-n-whistles but it is a lot easier to use than Blender, and a lot cheaper (free) than 3DSmax.

It is a java application, so should work whatever your computer runs.

http://www.artofillusion.org/

a very-quick example, just for text.

Wow, I like that, I wonder if it works with Fedora, thanks Rich.

Thank you for that Rich.

Molly - it should work with Fedora. There's a Linux version on the download page.

thanks Eris, I will take a look to see if I can get it within Fedora.

I installed Art of Illusion. On first look this program might be a lot of fun. It's got excellent documentation and user support. The online manual is worth a download.

I did not know animations were possible with Art of Illusion. I thought it was mainly a 3-D program like Blender and Hexagon.

I don't know about Hexagon but Blender is an animation program too as are Daz and Bryce.

http://www.sintel.org/

Rod, trying to scare me with 'I did not know animations were possible with Art of Illusion'

So for anyone interested, not a tutorial, there are plenty really good ones around.
Just a quick how-to using the text tool. - 8 mins

http://youtu.be/yzXtSghzd8s