Software Breakdown

As part of the presentation of my project, I identified software that I will need to learn, as part of my backwards planning I decided that I need to make this more concise and break them down, this would make the list of software I need to learn less and allow me to identify the best software to start with and then the software I can progress to.  

To do this, I decided to collect all the software I had listed in the presentation and that I had previously identified in blogs and group them. I researched each software as well as spoke to industry contacts and then began to group them, I will first group by area such as 3D animation, Photogrammetry etc, I will then use my pipeline to sort them into the order of need. I will finally break it down to ease of learning, some software I already use and only need to upskill and learn new techniques others I need to learn from scratch. 

Area Grouping
Area	Software
3D Modeling/ Sculpting/ Painting	Zbrush Maya 3Ds Max Microsoft Maquette  Adobe Substance Designer  Adobe Substance Painter  Adobe Medium  Modo Mari
3D Animation	Maya Modo
Photogrammetry  https://all3dp.com/1/best-photogrammetry-software/	Meshroom Agisoft Metashape Recap
Compositing	After Effects Nuke
Game Engines	Unreal Engine  Unity Quixel Megascans
Coding/ programming	Python C# C++ Touchdesigner  Playmaker
Stop Motion	Dragonframe
VR	Tilt brush Quill Cara VR

Upskill or to learn from scratch
Area	Know (Upskill)	Learn (new/scratch)
3D Modeling/ Sculpting/ Painting	Zbrush Adobe Medium	Maya 3Ds Max Microsoft Maquette  Adobe Substance Designer  Adobe Substance Painter  Modo Mari
3D Animation		Maya Modo
Photogrammetry		Meshroom Agisoft Metashape Recap
Compositing	After Effects	Nuke
Game Engines		Unreal Engine  Unity Quixel Megascans
Coding/ programming		Python C# C++ Touchdesigner  Playmaker
Stop Motion	Dragonframe
VR	Tilt brush Quill	Cara VR

Decision to use
Area	Use	Later
3D Modeling/ Sculpting/ Painting	Zbrush Maya Adobe Substance Designer  Adobe Substance Painter	3Ds Max Microsoft Maquette  Modo Mari Adobe Medium
3D Animation	Maya	Modo
Photogrammetry	Agisoft Metashape	Meshroom Recap
Compositing	After Effects	Nuke
Game Engines	Unreal Engine  Quixel Megascans	Unity
Coding/ programming	Touchdesigner	Python C# C++ Playmaker
Stop Motion	Dragonframe

To Learn in each
Software	To learn
Zbrush	Get more used to the interface and tools, zremesh, Zrepose
Maya	Learn from scratch - Modeling, rigging, animation
Adobe Substance Designer	Learn from scratch - Modeling
Adobe Substance Painter	Learn from scratch - 3D painting
Agisoft Metashape	Learn from scratch - photogrammetry data, how to capture with it
After Effects	Upskill - look at green screening, compositing and VR
Unreal Engine	Lear  from scratch - how to create VR pieces
Quixel Megascans	How to put 3D scans in UE
Touchdesigner	How to visual program the VR piece using match frame system
Dragonframe	How or if it can be used for the above

Professional Pressance 

1. Email

2. Website

3. Logo

4. Business Cards

5. Bound dissertation 

6. PhD Proposal

7. Conference Paper

8. Research Record