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CAT2 debut.(3D CHARACTER ANIMATION)(Brief Article)

Computer Graphics World

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Win Character Animation Technologies Ltd. has unveiled Version 2 of its CAT (Character Animation Toolkit) plug-in for Autodesk Media and Entertainment's 3ds Max. Designed for game development, film, and television artists, the newly upgraded character system boasts Time Warp curves, for controlling the speed of an animation layer with one spline curve, and a Stretchy Bones mode, in which users can lengthen bones in the viewport and animate the scale of all rig bones. Version 2 also gains a new rig manipulation system with ...

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