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Montreal, Canada - December 11, 2001
– Di-O-Matic,
Inc. announces today the upcoming release of its powerful new facial
modeling and animation tool Facial
Studio.
Facial Studio
promises to improve the artistic quality of facial modeling and
animation as well as accelerate production cycles.
Instead of simply using a linear morphing approach like some
other head generation tools, it relies on its complex non-linear
deformation engine. More
than 500 facial controls (eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, chin, ears, cheeks,
forehead, eyebrows, overall head shape, teeth, tongue, as well as
controlling the shading, the textures and the muscles animation) are
part of Facial Studio ; these
allow 3D artists to create any type of face and head, from
hyper-realistic to cartoon, whatever the age, gender or ethnicity of the
character. Facial
Studio is currently in Release Candidate,
it will be available soon at an
Introductory Price of $US
499.
“We were fed up with facial tools that simply
allowed to create brother- type characters”, said Di-O-Matic president
Laurent M. Abecassis. “We
wanted to come up with a product that would be simple to use, that could
model and animate any type of head in a snap.
Facial Studio is a tool that was created by artists
with artistic needs in mind. We have improved, simplified and accelerated the creative
process a great deal”, Mr. Abecassis concluded.
Two-Time Emmy Award Winner, Benoit
Girard of Digital Dimension said about Facial Studio :
“...Finally, a powerful tool created by experienced animators that
puts a new 'face' on character modeling."
Facial Studio will be
available either through Digimation, our distribution partner, or
directly on Di-O-Matic’s corporate web site at
www.diomatic.com.
Priced at $US 499 at launch, it promises to reach a large
audience from major studios to independent creators.
For
more information about Facial Studio, please visit Di-O-Matic website at
www.diomatic.com
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About Di-O-Matic Inc.
Di-O-Matic, Inc. develops high-end
character animation plug-ins for Discreet's 3ds max product
line as well as training CDs for various 3D software
applications. Di-O-Matic believes that character animation
should be easy and fun and its tools are designed to bring
efficient character setups into your workflow. Visit
Di-O-Matic at
http://www.diomatic.com/
Di-O-Matic's
client includes: Ubi Soft, Blizzard, Rainbow Studios, Planet
Blue, Viewpoint, Big Huge Games, Westwood, Eutechnyx, and
Janimation, amongst many others. |
