Caligari adds animation engine. (modeling * animation).(trueSpace 6.5)(Brief Article)

Nonlinear animation capability is the most important new feature in trueSpace 6.5, Caligari's modeling and animation package for Web designers, game developers, and illustrators. TrueSpace 6.5 has a completely rewritten animation engine that now allows users to create animations from clips of motion sequences, defining low-level behaviors in the program's Keyframe view, then editing and combining the behaviors in its new Clip-view editor. This work flow has been designed to appeal to game developers in particular, as the ability to separate low- and high-level editing enables users to experiment more flexibly with various animation scenarios, and thus accelerate their game action tests.

Zac Mansfield, multimedia manager for Nanometer Technologies (Paso Robles, CA), is a longtime trueSpace user who has beta-tested Version 6.5. Mansfield uses trueSpace to design brochures, magazine ads, training CDs, and Web sites. "I like to use 3D images of products because I can control the lighting and scenes much ...