Animation for Film, Broadcast, and Multimedia

Animating Natural Environments in a Breeze…

Imagine a forest, with trees realistically swaying in the wind. Not 10 or 50 forest, with hundreds of thousands of animated trees... Imagine an airplane flying at high speed over a gorgeous range of mountains with rocks and plants. A terrain that stretches on and on, seemingly endless, and realistic…How long will it take you to create, set up and animate such sequences in your 3 Vue lets you do all this in a breeze. It offers a dedicated toolset that’s specifically extremely complex, high-poly natural 3D environments. Choose either Infinite, the stand-alone version with professional compositing tools, or xStream, the integrated solution, which lets you create and animat directly inside 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, Cinema 4D and XSI.

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Highlights for Animators

• All SolidGrowth™ plants can be animated – wind, breeze, fluttering leaves, decay
• Ventilators for local animated wind effects
• EcoSystems™ – populate scenes with millions of plants, rocks and objects i
• Breeze animation can be applied to entire EcoSystems
• Inetracively paint EcoSystems
• SolidGrowth4 - flicker-free rendering of dense vegetation
• Spectral atmospheres - all atmospheric elements and volumetric clouds can
• Procedural terrains – LOD is dynamically updated according to distance from
• Full keyframe animation with adjustable time-curves, tangents and interpol
• Motion designer – quick path-based animation with automatic secondary m
• Automatic baking of indirect illumination
• 2.5D fast motion blur and DOF
• Network rendering, stand-alone renderer, remote rendering for renderfarms
• G-buffer and multi-pass rendering
• Full intergation with 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D and XSI (xStream only

Tools for Animating 3D Nature

The EcoSystem revolution
Instantly populate your scenes with hundreds of thousands of wind-swept plants, rocks, objects or animated meshes. Interactively paint, erase and modify EcoSystems.

Plant animation
Animate SolidGrowth plants with breeze and wind, globally or per-plant. Breeze settings include random pulsations, gusts of wind and fluttering of leaves. Add omni and directional ventilators for local wind effects.

Infinite detail
Procedural terrains can be stretched to any size, yet display an unlimited level of detail. More detail is dynamically added closer to the camera.

Animated atmospheres
Animate all atmospheric elements (shifting volumetric clouds, twinkling stars, fog, haze, sunlight, etc…). Spectral atmospheres automatically react to the position of the sun, for ultra-realistic sunsets and time lapse animations.

Standard keyframing and motion design
Use standard animation tools like automatic or manual keyframing, time curves, move/copy/paste keyframes, tangents & interpolation, look-at constraints and ease in/out. The Motion Designer automates the animation process for various types of vehicles by accurately following terrain elevations and adding secondary motion like spin, bank and vibration.

.High-end rendering power
Light your animations with area lights, GI, radiosity and HDR image-based render times with illumination baking, fast soft shadows, 2.5D motion blu rendering.

Professional compositing tools
Export G-buffer renders as RLA or RPF for video compositing. Produce multiformat. Synchronize cameras and lights with major 3D applications.

Vue xStream - the Integrated Solution
With Vue xStream, you can create, edit and render complete, fully animated Vue scenes directly in 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D and XSI. This is the most streamlined and effective solution for animators.

Vue for Discovery Channel
Darkside Animation, a UK based SFX studio, was commissioned to recreate an animated sequence for a High Definition special called "Volcano Fire and Ice co-production between Mentorn and The Discovery Channel. Darkside created a digital landscape with Vue 5 Infinite and used LightWave t smoke in the footage.