Animation World News:Technology
Five New Raydream Plug-Ins. Northern California software developer Autonomous Effects
has released five new plug-ins for MetaCreations' 3-D graphics and animation
software, Ray Dream Studio 5.0. Compliant with both the PC and Macintosh
platforms, the plug-ins create the mechanisms to perform very specific
animation functions within Ray Dream Studio. The plug-ins are: Hotlips
for lip-synching to a soundtrack, FaceShifter for mesh morphing, BoneBender
for mesh deformation, TV Tweaker for improved transfer of digital animation
to video and PoserImporter for importing 3-D models created in MetaCreations'
human modeling program, Poser 2. The plug-ins are available individually
at separate prices, or as a package for $249.99. They can be purchased
and downloaded directly from the Autonomous web site at http://www.afx.com.
Free Softimage Cloth Plug-In. Cloth, like fur and human skin, is
known to computer animators as one of the more difficult surfaces to animate.
Topix, a Toronto-based animation and design studio, has released TopixCloth,
a proprietary software plug-in for animating cloth in Softimage 3.7. Developed
in December 1996 for a Honeycomb commercial, the plug-in, nicknamed "cyber
fiber" has now been made available free over the Internet, as freeware.
"It seemed a shame to have such a good piece of code sitting in our
bin unused," said Frank Falcone, a Topix animation director who developed
TopixCloth. The plug-in is available at www.topix.com/cloth.
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