Getting a Grip on Perspective

[Jürgen Hubert]

I'm learning how to do digital art - to be specific, bitmap art with a combination of GIMP and a graphics tablet.

But I plan to have lots and lots of architecture in my art, and getting the perspective right for those is a drag. So I was wondering: Can you recommend me any Open Source 3D graphics program out there that will help me get the perspective right?

To clarify: I do not need anything that renders minute details with photorealistic light effects and whatnot. All I want to do is create the basic shapes of the buildings, generate a view with a realistic perspective with these basic shapes, and then import it into GIMP and paint over it.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Bryce is a good choice but not open source, Wings maybe, there are others.

Here are a listing I found in a seach: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/3D/Rendering_and_Modelling/

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Bryce is a good choice but not open source, Wings maybe, there are others.

Here are a listing I found in a seach: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/3D/Rendering_and_Modelling/

Thanks!

The following programs seem to be Art of Illusion, JPatch, and Wings 3D. Does anyone have any experience with them?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Thanks!

The following programs seem to be Art of Illusion, JPatch, and Wings 3D. Does anyone have any experience with them?

I am rather sure Meloncov has used Wings.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Someone else also recommended Blender to me. Does anyone have any experience with it?

 

[Meloncov]

I am rather sure Meloncov has used Wings.

I haven't actually. I use Doga almost exclusively. Its free so long as you don't want to do animations, but its not open source. It's proably the easiest of all 3D programs to learn, but is reasonably powerful.

http://www.doga.co.jp/english/

 

[Meloncov]

Someone else also recommended Blender to me. Does anyone have any experience with it?

One of my (RL) friends has alot of expierence with it. Its as powerful as the big names (Maya and Lightwave) but is very difficult to learn how to use.