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Date posted: 28/03/2006 (Press Release) In their continued efforts to raise the bar in the high-end character animation arena, Di-O-Matic announced Voice-O-Matic version 2 for 3ds max. Voice-O-Matic 2 simply takes lip synchronization to a new level by using an intelligent phonetic engine that can break down audio files cleanly and automatically assign correct phonemes (up to 40 of them) to make your characters talk in just minutes. It also has impressive language support and can handle English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. Animators can also tweak their results with standard Bezier curve controls and sophisticated smoothing algorithms so that the fine-tuning process is quick and painless. Included in this new version is an improved new interface to accelerate even more your lip-sync process, audio cue to hear the an example of the phoneme to make sure you are selecting the one you want, weighable phonemes so you can put emphasis on the phonemes you want to accentuate and have more power over your lip-sync. Voice-O-Matic 2 is now the only lip-sync plug-in that is available on the market for 3dsmax users. Other developers ceased their operations altogether or simply stopped developing any future versions. Voice-O-Matic 2 is one of the easiest character animation plug-ins 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.'Thanks to Voice-O-Matic, 3ds max animators can now rely on its intuitive workflow to create quality lip-sync animations in a snap! Voice-O-Matic 2 support from 3ds max 6 to 3ds max 8 and have been optimized for 3ds max 8, the newest version of Autodesk's top-selling animation software. See the full Story via external site: www.di-o-matic.com Most recent stories in this category (Libraries and Components): 14/04/2013: The mathematical method for simulating the evolution of the solar system has been improved by UPV/EHU researchers |
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