Zaxwerks Proanimator 4.3.1

Zaxwerks ProAnimator 4.3.1

Traditionally adding high quality 3D animation to a video project has been a time consuming and expensive process. Further it has required a specialized set of skills to use the complex 3D animation products currently available. ProAnimator is a must-have appliation that breaks new ground by giving video editors a way to easily create stylish 3D animations in the editing suite, with familiar looking tools and methods.

One of the major new features of version 4 is the ability for ProAnimator to work inside of After Effects as a plug-in. This enables the AE animator to get real-time previews of animated 3D objects while still inside After Effects.

“Using the ProAnimator as a plug-in greatly enhances work flow.” says Zax Dow, founder and product designer for Zaxwerks. “The plug-in makes it easier to create beautiful multi-layered 3D animation in register with other After Effects elements. Not having to leave After Effects to work on the 3D also gives a huge boost to production speed and flexibility because changes can be made to the 3D elements at any time without having to re-render movie clips and re-import them into the final composite.”

ProAnimator has a unique new way of creating animation. Rather than laboriously setting keyframes for every object, ProAnimator uses behavioral animation techniques to animate many objects with a single set of controls. This results in animations of great complexity being very fast and easy to create. Further, it enables multiple versions to be made with a few simple keystrokes. Animations can be saved as templates which can then be applied to any group of letters or logo elements for exceptionally fast graphics production.

he new version of ProAnimator adds animation features such as the ability to do cascading visibility animation and to distribute pages of text or Illustrator logo elements around the surface of a cylinder, making it very easy to do curving logos in the “Universal Pictures” style.

It also adds many new ways to render the final picture giving the artist great flexibility in designing with 3D. These rendering styles include Wireframe Rendering, Hiddenline Rendering, Cartoon Coloring and Absolute Coloring. Additional special effect techniques include a Shadow Catcher material for integrating 3D objects into existing 2D footage and a Matte Material for creating traveling mattes out of 3D objects.

Other new features include:

* Soloing, Ghosting, Visibility and Locking for tracks.
* QuickTime and AVI movies as texture maps and backgrounds.
* Visibility actions for adding cascading visibility to your animation.
* Local and Group Scale controllers.
* Primitive modeling: Spheres, Cones, Cubes, Pyramids, Cylinders, Planes, etc.
* New Path and Pose actions for creating linear or swooping random motion, with tumbling.
* Scene merging.
* Track segment labeling.
* Track duplication.
* Track segment flipping.
* A new file format which saves models as a live, editable objects so they can be reused in other projects and changed at a later date.

For video editors who do not use After Effects, the standalone version of ProAnimator includes all the new features of the plug-in plus the ability to export final movies in QuickTime or AVI formats and even use movie files as texture maps. Background movies are also now supported and the background can be composited with the 3D elements as part of the final rendering process, so complete promos, ID’s and titles can be rendered in the standalone ready to drop into the time line of a video editing system.

An extra plug-in, also included in the bundle, enables the artist to import camera and object animation data from a ProAnimator project into an After Effects project. So it doesn’t matter if the artist wants the ProAnimator to follow an AE camera move, or if he wants After Effects to follow a ProAnimator camera move. All bases are covered in this tremendous upgrade.

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