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Presenter 3D's Behavioral Kinematics™

Presenter 3D™ provides powerful and intuitive controls for creating character animation, facial expressions, and lip syncing. The new KineMagics Pro provides you with the ability to combine a variety of morph instancing targets (utilizing both reshape and rotate operations) into a single control slider. This expressions instancing capability for creating a variety of behaviors enables you to define a complex facial expression or body movement that can be applied at any frame of an animation. This new morphing technology allows Presenter 3D to offer the same IK (Inverse Kinematics) and Bones effects provided by workstation products, but at a more productive, intuitive, faster processing, less memory intensive, and less expensive level.

Lip Sync Introduction

Presenter 3D users can animate faces by blending the combined targets of multiple objects. The power this has over morph products that provide only single object morphing becomes clear when you have to model a face as a single object or a body or arm as a single object before you can animate it. When coupled with Presenter 3D's built-in 3D sound capabilities, you have complete and dynamic command of the lip syncing process. It handles any number of objects with any number of targets within its dialog box, and lets you select any number of the targets an apply any "weight" as a percent from -200 to + 200.

Lip Sync

One of the most difficult things to do in character animation is syncing the lips and other facial features to the words spoken. Presenter 3D offers a powerful, new 3D morphing technology, Multi-Target Morphing. This morphing capability works with the 3D Digital Clay(tm) sculpting to provide powerful facial animation, muscle flexing, character reshaping, and lip motion synced to sound.

Doppler Sound

One of the most dramatic directional sound effects that occurs in real life is the Doppler effect (the frequency of sound attached to, or generated by a fast-moving object, changes as the sound/object approaches and passes an observer). To record the appropriate effect without extraneous sound is expensive and time consuming. Presenter 3D's Virtual Directional Microphones make it easy to produce this effect without the need for audio recording equipment.

Multi Target Morph

Multi-Target 3D morphing technology. This capability builds on the existing 3D Digital Clay™ sculpting to provide powerful facial animation, muscle flexing, character reshaping, and lip motion. The key to Presenter 3D's Multi-Target Morphing is the ability to create an unlimited number freeform morph shapes, while using only a few hard-targets in a variety of soft-target combinations.

Explore Shading

To dramatically improve an artist's productivity when using Presenter 3D, VIDI has introduced this ground-breaking improvement in shader technology. Explore allows the artist to make adjustments to the shading parameters in real-time. This capability enables you to instantly see the effect of your changes on the final rendered surface.

Shatter/Explosion

Simulating explosions is a popular effect used in the production of multimedia, game, film and video special effect sequences. Using Presenter 3D's Shatter plug-in, you can now create a variety of explosion effects directly on the Digital SoundStage(tm).

QTVR Object

QTVR Panorama

QuickTime VR or QuickTime "Virtual Reality" is Apple's exciting new technology that simulates 3D environments. Presenter 3D's Digital SoundStage environment provides you with the virtual stage, lighting, sound recording, and virtual QTVR cameras for the creation of a QTVR object scene. No photographic equipment or any other programs or utilities are required.

Documents/Manuals

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