Our client from Barcelona, Cromosoma explains the challenges they faced creating Asha a 3D animated TV series of 52 episodes of 13 minutes each with a 2D look in 3D.
Autodesk Media & Entertainment just announced the upcoming release of their 2011 product line.
Since Di-O-Matic is an Autodesk Authorized Developper we are currently working on all our respective tools compatibility with Maya 2011, Softimage 2011 and 3ds max 2011. As soon as they are ready we will inform you through this blog, twitter, RSS feed and mailing.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on theses releases.
For 3ds max animators who don’t like the command panel, here is a cool way to animate and it works with multiple characters at the same time ! No scripting needed. Instant satisfaction.
Our customer Genseisha from Tokyo use Voice-O-Matic, our automatic lipsync plugin for Softimage, to create a funny daily CG animation series entitled The Leaders of the World.
Here is another character lipsync pipeline suggestion…
Did you know that in addition to its default speech recognition engine, Voice-O-Matic also supports importing .lwv files? Unleash Microsoft LISET potential by combining its strength with Voice-O-Matic plugins and easily import enhanced linguistic audio files in your favorite Autodesk 3D animation package (3ds max, Maya or Softimage) to get your 3D characters talking in no time.
What is LISET? It is a freeware from Microsoft that enables you to automatically generate phoneme and word timing information from a .wav file in spoken English.