If No More Shake, What Should I Learn Instead?

[user_deleted]

I am a newbe to 3d, and progressing with Maya. However, I am aware of the need to have at least a good grounding in comping to suppliment skills in the above and Photoshop for example.

Having recently read about Apple and Shake I am in a quandery as to what to learn instead, if Shake is being phased out. As I understand it, Shake is the current leader in it's field, but is there any point in learning it, if by the time I get a job comping, post houses are then using something else!

Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas about this?

[director]

Interesting question. My understanding is that there are vfx houses using version 2.5 of shake still because it is powerful and the last version to run on a pc and a mac.

Learning Shake version 4.1 is still a great idea. It is a work horse and extremly strong compositing application. I reccomend moving forward with Shake as most production houses will still use it for some time.

..... also rumored that apple and/ or old developers of shake (nothing real) are working on a new compositing package that runs on a faster or smarter code more similar to Motion, with the compositing likeness of Shake.

Other programs that may be of interest are Combustion and After Effects. The transition from Shake to Combustion is very easy once you know Shake.

Hope I helped answer your question. Stayed tuned for more advice from other people here on fxshare.

[user_deleted]

and also, using Shake is a great way to learn how to comp. You should be able to move over to another node based application with little pain and gain a better understanding of how to protect your image.

[user_deleted]

QUOTE(director @ 08/11/06, 03:11 PM) [snapback]244929[/snapback]
Interesting question. My understanding is that there are vfx houses using version 2.5 of shake still because it is powerful and the last version to run on a pc and a mac.

Learning Shake version 4.1 is still a great idea. It is a work horse and extremly strong compositing application. I reccomend moving forward with Shake as most production houses will still use it for some time.

..... also rumored that apple and/ or old developers of shake (nothing real) are working on a new compositing package that runs on a faster or smarter code more similar to Motion, with the compositing likeness of Shake.

Other programs that may be of interest are Combustion and After Effects. The transition from Shake to Combustion is very easy once you know Shake.

Hope I helped answer your question. Stayed tuned for more advice from other people here on fxshare.

Thank you for reply, appreciated.

QUOTE(catherinet @ 08/11/06, 10:39 PM) [snapback]244950[/snapback]
and also, using Shake is a great way to learn how to comp. You should be able to move over to another node based application with little pain and gain a better understanding of how to protect your image.

Thank you for reply, appreciated.