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Hash is a small business located in an empty church in Vancouver, Washington. They travel around the country doing the same demonstration over and over, trying to convince everyone that their software is better than anything else on the planet. Its like watching a late night infomercial. If you try to ask specific questions, the guy won't answer them and ask you to talk to him later. <
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>The software, while having some redeeming qualites, is pretty primitive. The big selling point is that it uses splines and "Hash Patches". They don't tell you how quirky the sofware is, or how unstable and prone to crashing and lock ups it is. <
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>The software comes on a CD that must be kept in your CD tray for the application to function. The documentation that comes with the software is a joke. A bunch of little tutorials that really do nothing to explain how to really work with the program. But "Mr. Demonsrator" addresses this in his presentation. "When I want to learn about software I don't read a book, I go to the website and ask questions in the forum". He says the same thing every time. <
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>But the forum is all volunteers, other users. The worst of it is that if you say anything bad about the software, Martin Hash himself (as if he doesn't have anything better to do) will censor or edit your post. So of course, all you'll see on Hash's site is people raving about how great the software is. Try it, you don't have to own the software to join the site. Join up and post how you like Maya's interface better or something like that, and bingo!, you're censored. <
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>Animation Master works in a single window, you can't have mutltiple views of what you're working on. This alone really puts it in lower league than a lot of other applications. Compared to Maya, 3Ds or Cararra, the render times in Animation Master are huge. It can take hours, even DAYS to render just a single frame. What I notice most of all is that there are a lot of "users" in the forum posting pretty pics, but not a lot of animations, and not a lot of high quality animations. There are some, but the fact that they are so far and few between leads me to believe that there is something inherent in the software that makes rendering tedious. This seems confirmed by Hash's sensitivity to any comments about render times for Animation Master. <
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>A few years ago, the idea of a complete 3D software package for a few hundred dollars seemed unbelievable. But things have changed, and there are a lot more options out there, Cararra 3D basics for example. Take a look around, but if you buy Animation Master, just remember, you're not going to get any customer service (I've never had an e-mail answered from their "technical support"), and when you go on-line, its not a forum where opinions are expressed and debated, its a fan club.

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>I have had the software and I can't express how much it helped me learn how to animate. I came into the animationg world only knowing what keyframe and motion capturing meant. Now, well... I am not Pixar, but I am almost there. <
>It has exited unexpectantly a few times, but otherwise is very stable. <
>If you can get the demo do get it, but I didn't know there was one until I got the software. <
>Bottom line: GREAT SOFTWARE

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Unqiue ideas but poor software quality
This runs OK on a windows machine but crashes often. On a Mac machine it is very <
>unstable. Some of the conceps are quick and unqiue and not too many other <
>packages in this price range offer these features. Poser 6 is a better deal, or <
>Cinema 4D for Mac owners. Windows users can also use either of those but they also have access to 3D Max.