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The new version of ProAnimator adds animation features such as the ability to do cascading visibility animation and to distribute pages of text or Illustrator logo elements around the surface of a cylinder, making it very easy to do curving logos in the "Universal Pictures" style. It also adds many new ways to render the final picture giving the artist great flexibility in designing with 3D. These rendering styles include Wireframe Rendering, Hiddenline Rendering, Cartoon Coloring and Absolute Coloring. Additional special effect techniques include a Shadow Catcher material for integrating 3D objects into existing 2D footage and a Matte Material for creating traveling mattes out of 3D objects. 
FeaturesOther new features include: Soloing, Ghosting, Visibility and Locking for tracks.QuickTime and AVI movies as texture maps and backgrounds.Visibility actions for adding cascading visibility to your animation.Local and Group Scale controllers.Primitive modeling: Spheres, Cones, Cubes, Pyramids, Cylinders, Planes, etc.New Path and Pose actions for creating linear or swooping random motion, with tumbling.Scene merging.Track segment labeling.Track duplication.Track segment flipping.A new file format which saves models as a live, editable objects so they can be reused in other projects and changed at a later date.
System Requirements
Macintosh:
Host: Adobe After Effects 6.5, 7.0, CS3, and CS4 (for the AE plug-in)
Host: Apple Motion 2 (for the Motion plug-in)- not compatible with Motion 3
G4/G5 Power Mac or Intel Mac
Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11, and 10.5.2 and higher
Quicktime 5 or above
512 MB RAM
Windows:
Host: Adobe After Effects 6.5, 7.0, CS3 and CS4 (for the AE plug-in)
Pentium 4 or better
Windows XP service pack 2 or Windows Vista
Quicktime 5 or above or DirectX 9
512 MB RAMLearn More About Zaxwerks Pro AnimatorVisit our Plug-in Finder and see images, samples and more.
This product can be ordered on a CD, or for download.
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