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Automated animation tools from Di-O-Matic. (effects).(Brief Article)

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Voice-O-Matic and Hercules are 3ds max plug-ins from Di-O-Matic that handle lip synchronization and musculature effects, respectively, Priced at $299, Voice-O-Matic employs algorithms to analyze the phonemes within an audio file and automatically create standard keyframes. Animators can then tweak the results.

Hercules provides muscles that can be dragged and dropped onto existing skeleton rigs or ...

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