Autodesk Softimage 2013
Create sophisticated 3D character animation and visual effects in less time with Autodesk Softimage 2013.
Autodesk Softimage 2013 builds on the power and flexibility of the Interactive Creation Environment (ICE) platform to introduce new procedural modelling capability, innovative new creative toolsets and enhanced interoperability. The new version is more easily integrated into production pipelines, for easier workflows in today’s demanding television, game and film projects.
Features
- New tools for the creation of stereoscopic renderings
- Node-based Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) platform
- Complete facial animation toolset
- Interactive timeline for animation editing and playback
- Integrated workflows
Benefits
- Softimage uses the powerful ICE platform for creating and sharing custom tools, dynamic effects, advanced character rigs without the need to script a line of code.
- Manage extremely complex characters and scenes much more easily with GigaCore, a next-generation 3D engine that uses the power of 64-bit, multi-core CPU to easily render scenes with millions of polygons and thousands of animated objects.
- Games and visual effects studios can create life-like facial animation at incredible speeds, using Face Robot. It features automatic lip-syncing and lets you import full solved Face Robot heads into Maya, making it faster and simpler to create believable characters.
What's New
- Crowd simulations assigned to environments within Softimage can now be created with more ease and speed with the new CrowdFX feature.
- Refine content more efficiently with the new High-Quality Viewport.
- Enhancements to the Animation Mixer, GATOR, Dopesheet, f-curve Editor, Synoptic Editor and Primitive Bones has dramatically improved the overall performance of these animation and rigging tools, improving productivity.
- An open source Bullet physics engine has been introduced into ICE, improving the options for obstacle collision detection.
- Additional options for thickness, hole capping, edge cutting and extrusion are just some of the extensions in the Softimage polygon modeling toolset.
- New selection tools will make common and repetitive tasks a thing of the past.
- Enhancements to ICE make it possible for TD’s to attach and run script code inside ICE Compound Property Pages.
- New view attributes, anchor points and workgroup management features are all a product of the new SDK enhancements.
- With the option to set familiar camera navigation, mouse manipulation, hotkeys, selection mode and keyframing mode, it is now easier and for 3ds Max artists to familiarise themselves with Softimage.
- New sample meshes (with UV’s) provide a quick starting point for modeling, while the new sample scenes help artists to deconstruct ICE modeling techniques.
- By adding Annotation Objects, multiple artists can communicate important information with each other while collaborating on a scene.
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