Montreal – June 14, 2006 – Di-O-Matic, a leading developer of character animation software, announced today the immediate release of Voice-O-Matic 2 for 3ds max.

Voice-O-Matic 2 and his improved new interface take lip synchronization to the next level by using an intelligent phonetic engine to break down audio files cleanly. Voice-O-Matic 2 automatically assigns correct phonemes to give a voice to your characters in no time. To accelerate even more your lip-sync process, audio phoneme have been added so you can hear an example of every phoneme to guide you in your phoneme assignation. It also has impressive language support that can handle English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. Animators can tweak their results to their taste with standard Bezier curve controls and sophisticated smoothing algorithms so that the fine-tuning process is quick and painless. In this new version we also included weight-able phonemes so you can accentuate a particular phonemes in your lip-sync to give it a more realistic look.

Voice-O-Matic 2 is now the only lip-sync plug-in that is available on the market to 3dsmax users. Other developers ceased their operations altogether or simply stopped developing any future versions. This top of the line plug-in is one of the easiest character animation tools on the market. Javier Rodriguez of the award wining Snowblind Studios confessed: " With Voice-O-Matic, it’s a breeze to achieve realistic, believable lip-synchs in record time. Quick and easy to use, yet very powerful. "

Voice-O-Matic 2 supports from 3ds max 6 to 3ds max 8 and is optimized for 3ds max 8, the latest version of Autodesk's top-selling animation software.

Pricing and Availability

• The current suggested retail price is $ 349.00 US.

• For registered users of Voice-O-Matic 1, upgrade to Voice-O-Matic 2 for only $ 79.00 US

Read the Press Release online :  http://www.di-o-matic.com/press/pr_voice2.html