Sep
6
Need to make your characters talk but don’t want to spend days or weeks doing it ?
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Voice-O-Matic is an easy-to-use but powerful plug-in that automates the process of lip synchronization for your animated characters directly inside of 3ds max. Simply feed a recorded audio file to Voice-O-Matic, and its powerful algorithms will automatically generate timing and lip position data for your characters.
Voice-O-Matic analyzes the phonemes within an audio file and automatically create standard keyframes, allowing animators to quickly tweak the results. You will be amazed at the results, and how easy it is to use.
Voice-O-Matic is the best way to speed-up the Lip-Sync process on your characters inside of 3ds max !
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Sep
6
cgSkin : A revolutionary new skin simulation technology for deforming character skins.
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cgSkin is a revolutionary new skin simulation technology for deforming character skins. It is designed to have almost no set up time but to work much better then any current skinning methods. It is also designed to work as fast or faster than current skinning methods.
With cgSkin you can use any (one or many) control meshes to drive the skin — this includes animated and deforming objects. The way cgSkin drives the skin simulates skin behaviors and you also have control (mapped) over skin tension in arbitrary directions — a region of skin can be stretched in one direction only.
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Sep
6
Absolute Character Tools 1.6 Pro (or ‘ACT’ for short): A sophisticated musculature system for 3ds Max
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ACT is a complete suite of plugins and technology to extend 3ds Max with advanced muscle and skin deformation tools for creating the most realistic character animations possible. It is also a complete, extensible, foundation technology designed to support a vast range of advanced character animation features in the future.
ACT is very exciting!… as well as developers we are also professional animators - in fact we were animators first and developed ACT because we wanted to create much more realistic characters animation than was possible with any currently available tools!
With ACT you can breath life into a character. People always have the same reaction the first time they see muscles and bones sliding under the skin - they gasp, their heart jumps and they proclaim “it’s real… this is what’s been missing from character animation”.
Absolute Character Tools is a plugin for the animation software. ACT is the world’s first muscle and skin system. It is currently available for 3ds max from Autodesk.
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Sep
6
If you need powerful and affordable tool for creating “real world” environments, DreamScape is the right choice.
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DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more. In contrast to other terrain creation tools for 3DS MAX, DreamScape Terra uses new rendering technologies that occupy much less of your computers memory (RAM) making it possible to render large detailed terrains on even a modest system. An intuitive and friendly user interface will allow you to easily tweak terrain properties, interactively paint elevation, and even to apply erosion effects. We have created an API for those who would like to create custom filters for terrain processing and modification. DreamScape’s Terra also allows importing standard DEM, SDTS and Terragen files. The possibilities are unlimited.
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Sep
6
FumeFX, the first commercially available gaseous fluid dynamics simulator for 3ds Max.
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FumeFX is a powerful fluid dynamics engine designed for the simulation and rendering of realistic fire, smoke, explosion, and other gaseous phenomena. It’s versatility, robustness, and intuitive workflow make it a perfect solution for even the most demanding tasks in the computer graphics industry.
This groundbreaking plug-in has already been production proven in titles such as Superman Returns and The Host (Gwoemul). And now, FumeFX is released through Turbo Squid as part of the exclusive Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in Program.
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Aug
6
Swift 3D MAX v3 is a powerful rendering plug-in for 3ds max™, which enables users to render and export 3D scenes and animations into web-optimized vector or raster Macromedia Flash animations.
Other vector export formats supported in Swift 3D MAX are Adobe Illustrator, EPS, SVG, and PNT for U.S.
Animation. Swift 3D MAX provides the broadest spectrum of vector output styles, along with textured raster-based Flash export and the tightest possible integration with Macromedia Flash.
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Aug
6
V-Ray Advanced Rendering Engine
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After its enormous success on the market V-Ray has become the renderer of choice in big production studios across the world. Feature film productions, multi-million dollar game productions, huge and small architectural visualizations have trusted their visuals to V-Ray.
V-Ray has become a benchmark for speed used by many hardware vendors and other renderer developers to test against. Richest set of features, cost-effective and production-ready.
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