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Darwin Dimensions rolled out its Evolver family of software products that enable users to quickly and automatically create unique 3D character models for use in games, film, television, multimedia, education, manufacturing, and corporate markets. With Evolver, artists of every level can create a wide variety of realistic, production-ready humanoid characters complete with textures, skeletons, and skinning in a fraction of the time it would take to generate the models from scratch.
Within minutes, users can create an assortment of characters by combining and mixing physical attributes derived from a so-called virtual gene pool of pre-built characters from the software's ancestor library. The modeler can then tweak, morph, and customize facial features and body types from an intuitive desktop interface. Resulting models can be made in multiple resolutions, are rigged for animation, and are ready for pipeline integration into Autodesk FBX-compatible 3D animation workflows.
The models ship with 66 facial expressions, including 12 phonemes, as well as color bump and specular map textures ...