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Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:41 pm
by madriver
Danimal wrote:NEW! Character Wizard automates the creation of fully rigged characters complete with walk cycles, expressions and more
This is what interests me. The thought of being able to quickly create rigged characters of my own design (as other copy implies) may take away some of the tedium and actually get me animating more. This sounds like it could be a pretty good upgrade.
Completely agree. It seems like AS does just enough to keep serious animators coming back. This feature alone could be worth the upgrade.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:22 pm
by Danimal
madriver wrote:NEW! Easily change the overall design and render styles of your animations.
Anyone have any idea what this might look like?
Currently there's a feature where you can make an image layer look "cartoony," I'm guessing that's something similar. Like a different kind of render mode to make things look "sketchy" or "water colory" or something along those lines. It's just a guess though.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 2:10 am
by heiseman
I hope we get proper editable velocity curves this time round. The current easing in/out model is horrible.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:09 am
by chucky
I had some horrible render problems with 7 but I'm pretty sure the patch fixed 'most' of those issues.
Mike Clifton had posted on this forum yonks ago when I questioned if it is 64 bit compatible , before I went and spent on a new system. He assured it was, the multicore does definitely render hugely faster and judging by the asset management improvements listed in the new features then the render crash (which was due to external files0 must have been fixed.
we shall have to wait and see.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:30 pm
by vidi
now SMITH MICRO is soon releasing V8.0.
I'm so excited I can't wait to play with this
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:10 pm
by Fulkster
vidi wrote:now SMITH MICRO is soon releasing V8.0.
I'm so excited I can't wait to play with this
...well, is it "now", or "soon"???
(Are we within a week, or a month of this? Does anyone know?)
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:25 pm
by jonbo
The site i found says june 14, but i don't know if its' accurate. i didn't mean to imply that AS8 is already out. all sarina's post said was that it is coming out soon and there would be more details coming.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:25 pm
by benecosse
+1
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:41 pm
by benecosse
The auto trace demo looks pretty impressive. Although I can't work out from these videos if character wizard can be used with your own characters?
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:28 pm
by benecosse
I wonder what the icon in the layers tool bar is for? It looks like frames with an arrow?
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:44 pm
by jonbo
I think that might be for the new patch layer feature. Just a guess.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:48 pm
by benecosse
yes probably
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:52 pm
by jonbo
I agree on all points. But for a $99 upgrade, I'll most likely get it anyway and see what they can do
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:55 pm
by benecosse
cool
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:08 pm
by mykylr
Where did you see the upgrade price?
Cheers
Mike R