Craft Director Studio

Craft Animations toont op VFX hoe creatieven tijd kunnen besparen door het stroomlijnen van de productiepijplijn. Craft Director Studio genereert geanimeerde content compatibel voor gebruik in de softwaresuites van onder meer Autodesk. Onder de titel ‘Driving the Creative Process’ zal Herman Fields van Craft Animations een workshop verzorgen hoe de Craft Director Tools worden gerigd en hoe het animatieproces werkt in zowel Craft Director Tools en Craft 4 Wheelers Extended als de Craft Spline Speed Control.

Craft 4-Wheeler Extended

Animate any four-wheeled vehicle in real-time! Steer your car, truck, fork-lift or even a train with any input device and watch as vehicles react accurately to terrain. Craft 4-Wheeler Extended tilts forward when braking hard, skids and slides with the use of a hand brake. It has the ability to follow a spline and make your high-end animations within hours. Movements such as suspension, acceleration, braking, wheel-ground interaction are all simulated correctly.
This product can be also used as: Cars, Boats, Buses, Moon Buggy, Truck, Forklift, Harvester and etc.

Features:
-Simulates 4-wheeled vehicles inside the host application
-Records key-frames automatically
-Suspension and correct physics (wheels follow ground)
-Follows motion path or controlled manually: you choose
-Fast clean-up and path-changes with chassis relocator.

Craft 2-Wheeler is an amazing time-saver for animators. Motorcycle motion and physics are extraordinarily complicated: scripting is a nightmare and key-framing doesn t cut it. This animation tool makes it easy for the user to create realistic simulations: key-frames are saved automatically. Craft 2-Wheeler can even be used to animate speedboats.

Features:
-Simulation of 2-Wheeled vehicles including bicycles mopeds and motorcycles directly in 3ds Max, Maya
-Records key-frames automatically
-Follows motion-path or controlled manually: you choose
-Amazing physics
-Extremely customizable with many configurations possibilities
-Even simulates speedboats

Craft Spline Speed-Controller’s waypoints will snap to the closest point on the spline so you can move the waypoints around incredibly fast and easy.
With Craft Spline Speed-Controller you can create waypoints in your scene. These waypoints will tell Craft Spline Speed-Controller’s Carriage to pause, stop, go a particular speed, etc. This is a very powerful alternative to working with regular spline curves because you’re not working with percentages along the spline, you’re working in world coordinates. So if you decide to either extend or shorten the spline, you do not have to go through the entire spline to find out the percentages for the new positions. This means that it does not need to be controlled manually - although that is also a possibility.

Features:
-You can also create a path directly from the waypoints which makes Craft Spline Speed-Controller the perfect tool to combine with a camera for visualizing.
-Craft Spline Speed-Controller can be used as a camera rail tool, controlling the speed of Craft 4-Wheeler Extended when it’s in Autonomous Mode (following a spline path), a roller coaster, etc.

Info: www.craftanimations.com