What is the best software for creating a life-life alien grey for a movie?

Question by maverickplan: What is the best software for creating a life-life alien grey for a movie?
I have a Mac and I’m looking for a software program that I can create a life-like alien grey to make it appear as if it’s in the real world for a movie.

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Answer by jplatt39
Blender, which was in origin a UNIX program so it works very well on the Mac, is a free 3D animation program which was used recently in an “Open Source” movie called Project London:

http://projectlondonmovie.com/

What you would do is to create and animate the three-dee alien in blender, but for the skin use a paint program such as photoshop or gimp to create a realistic texture which blender will allow you to map it on.

The non-free programs I know about which a regular person can use are by Autodesk, and while I have a few issues with Adobe I will not recommend Autodesk programs at all, ever period.

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