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 Hash Releases Animation:Master Version 11.0 Posted by: amigo
Source: DMN
Date: Tue May 04 2004
Hash Inc. announces the release of Animation:Master version 11.0. This major new release of their flagship 3D character animation product includes new features related to work flow, modeling, rendering, and ease of use.
�One of the new features we are most excited about is our new hair tools,� said Ken Baer, Hash Inc.�s Director of Marketing. �We have worked closely with our users to develop tools that allow artists to easily create realistic hair and make it easy to style and comb. It also works with our dynamics and collision detection so that it is easy to get believable secondary motion without having to hand animate it.�
Grooming mode allows users to interactively brush, lengthen, change density, or even manipulate individual hair controls. The new hair features can also be used to create grass, plants, trees, feathers, and scales, just to name a few. Image maps can be used as follicles to create realistic leaves and feathers. All of these features are included with the Animation:Master v11.0 and do not require additional plugins or costly upgrades.
Also, new drag and drop features make model placement in scenes with existing geometry more intuitive. Improvements to Animation:Master�s world-class renderer include soft reflections and reflection blending.
Animation:Master has become the tool of choice for many artists who want to learn animation. The product�s design revolves around the premise that the artist should have powerful, but intuitive tools that are easy to use, and affordable. Hash, Inc. has always focused on character animation, and providing tools for telling stories. This has led to breakthroughs in organic modeling with spline meshes, re-usable and layered motion resulting in the first commercial non-linear animation system, and powerful features designed for an artist rather than a technical director. This combined with a large and very active online community has resulted in a solid and supportive environment for anyone wanting to create animation for fun or profit.
Hash recently added a site called A:M Films for users to showcase their animation and films at http://amfilms.hash.com. The site allows users of Animation:Master to post their work to a fast server free of charge. The films can be viewed by anyone with a browser and QuickTime.
Animation:Master has established itself as a multi-platform standard for creating organic, true 3D patch based objects and characters. Channel-based motions give users the degree of animation control that is required for quality character animation, eliminating the problems associated with polygonal systems. The program sells for $299. Version 11 is available now for Windows XP, and will be available soon as a native Mac OS X application.
Hash, Inc., founded by Martin Hash, has been marketing software tools for 3D-character animation since early 1987. The company continues to design and build affordable software tools for artists and animators for use in independent and commercial production. Animation:Master is available for Microsoft Windows XP, and Apple Macintosh platforms. Hash, Inc. can be contacted at http::/www.hash.com.
Related Links: Hash Inc website
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