Anyone who decides to try his hand at 3D-modeling and animation, very quickly faced with a choice of a suitable graphics package. The problem looms mighty big fellow, familiarly patting on the shoulder, calloused hand, confidently looks into his eyes and an ingratiating asked: "Well, my friend, whom we choose?" The modern market programs, three-dimensional modeling and animation offers a fairly wide range of similar products. Those who wish to become mastodons 3D-pen definitely prefer 3DS Max or Maya: two or three years of practice, and an animated Olympus often submits. But first the relation efforts and the result is clearly not in favor of the modeler.

Some beginners prefer a more simple programs. But here they were waiting for at least two insidious trouble. Such programs can usually be done only by a single element necessary for a full-fledged animation films: a simulation or animation itself, or texturing with the voice acting. Have to relearn a few small utilities. The second problem - is extremely difficult to find training courses for programs unrelated to the "first-tier 3D".

Relatively new to Russia reached graphics package Hash Animation Master, who, on the one hand, combines the capabilities of large 3D-utilities such as 3DS Max, allowing you to create all the stages of animation, on the other - simple enough to him for several months, could learn the user in general never had any dealings with such programs. In addition, the company Grand Prix Animation Ltd has released to the domestic market a series of excellent how-Russian-speaking video tutorials that allow to deal with the package more quickly.

On the advantages and disadvantages
Immediately warn all fans of "Max" and "Maya": Hash Animation does not claim the title of King modellingu and animation. He was for it and not seeking. But this ease of development and usability - particularly because of the cut-off unnecessary features for novice users - make utility is very easy to get drawn into the world of 3D-modeling. However, Hash suitable for complete major projects. For example, it is in this package in due time was made animated feature "Toy Story" (ToyStory) and short animated films AlienSong, Killer Bean.

The program interface is extremely convenient. It is based on modules that you can always adjust it, as they say for themselves. Just touches the mouse at any of the windows and drag it in a convenient area of the screen. In the main editing window made all the basic tools, which eliminates the need to travel to different menus. Modellingu built on the principle of working with splines - no primitives for those who used to work with primitives, there are several plugins that create them on several parameters. In the Hash Animation built his own material editor, which allows you to create different surfaces on the particles. In addition, the package is already present in box set of material created by the developers, supported shaders. Texturing also done quite convenient: you can customize the image by hand, you can apply the texture coordinates, if necessary, allowed to build ProjectionMap to project texture on the surface.

Implemented in the most convenient Hash skeletal animation - perhaps it is this feature made the program so popular. Links can be combined in any order, to group, work as a whole skeleton. A method of direct kinematics allows to evaluate the animation directly in the process. Catches the mouse at any joint, pulling it in the right direction and watch will look like the final movement.

As for flaws, they in Hash not much more than in any other three-dimensional animation package ("Max", "Maya", "Poser" and others - is no exception). In our opinion, the main flaw the creators of the program - unlike the other three-dimensional editors, camera. Before that you have not worked in 3DS Max, used to be easy, but then, when directed to the more sophisticated tools should be retrained. Just a Hash is very slow rendering, while during the rendering sometimes there are a variety of image distortion.

Hash Animation Master - excellent package of three-dimensional animation for beginners. In our view, it may well become the launching pad from which you will surely come out in open space 3D-animation. Dispense with 3DS Max, Poser or Maya as a result is unlikely, but that's gradually come to the basics of modeling in these "monster" three-dimensional graphics can be precisely through the Hash.