March 23, 2009

Di-O-Matic Releases Facial Studio Version 2

Montreal, Canada - Di-O-Matic, a developer of character animation software, has released the newest version of Facial Studio (Windows Edition). Offering more than 500 controls, Facial Studio is a suite of tools designed to help artists achieve better facial animation results in less time.
From modeling to muscle-based deformations as well as texture map libraries and everything in between: Facial Studio does it all with its intuitive interface that will have you creating amazing heads in only minutes.

Based on the same technology than the award-winning Facial Studio plug-in for 3ds max. Facial Studio (Windows Edition) also offers additional breathtaking features like the powerful and easy to use PhotoMatching tool that allows you to create heads based on photos in less than 10 minutes!

In addition to an improved PhotoMatching experience with real-time texture preview, Facial Studio (Windows Edition) sports such new as:

- Improved Microsoft Vista support
- Floating license
- New and improved shapes and proportions for the default head
- Improved deformations including gender, ethnicity and phonemes
- New additional facial deformations

Facial Studio (Windows edition) v2 is priced at $699. Registered users of Facial Studio (Windows edition) must be subscribed to the Premium+ Support Package, listed at $99, to gain access to this latest release version.