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The Zaxwerks 3D InvigoratorTM ProAnimator / ProModeler version 3.0 User Guide Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator - ProAnimator / ProModeler - User Guide 1 Zaxwerks Inc. 5724 Camellia Ave. Temple City, CA 91780 (626) 309-9102 phone (626) 309-9142 fax http://www.zaxwerks.com Sales: sales@zaxwerks.com Tech Support: support@zaxwerks.com © 1996 - 2003 Zaxwerks Inc. All rights reserved. This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and does not represent product specifications or commitment on the part of Zaxwerks. Zaxwerks assumes no responsibility or liability for any error or inaccuracies that may appear in this document. The Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator is a trademark of Zaxwerks Inc. After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. FreeHand is a trademark of Macromedia Inc. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. OpenGL is a trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. All other product names or trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 2 Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator - ProAnimator / ProModeler - User Guide Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 BASIC CONCEPTS Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Surface Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Scene Set-Up & Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ANIMATION TUTORIALS ProAnimator Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Creating An Animation in Five Clicks . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Changing The Text In An Animation . . . . . . . . . 30 Changing The Speed Of An Animation . . . . . . . 31 Changing The Camera's View Of The Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Rendering An Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Rendering A Single Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Saving A Single Frame Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Rendering The Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Rendering Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Changing The Timing And Speed Of An Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 What is A Pose? What Is A Transition? . . . . . . 38 Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator - ProAnimator / ProModeler - User Guide Creating A New Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Creating The 3D Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Adding An Animation Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Changing The Track Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Moving Splice Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Adding More Hold Time To The Beginning Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Changing The Position Of A Segment Without Changing Its Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Slowing Down The Motion Of A Transition . . . 43 Resetting An Animation Back To A Saved Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Increasing The Length Of An Entire Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Setting The Loop Points For The Work Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Shortening The Length Of An Entire Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Selecting Segments That Are Difficult To Click On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Changing Object Motion During Transitions . . . . . . 49 Changing The Curve Of A Motion Path . . . . . . . 50 Changing The Direction Of The Arch In The Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Controlling When Objects Start To Move . . . . . 52 Controlling The Order Of Objects As They Cascade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3 Adding Start Ease And End Ease For A Professional Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Changing The Positions Of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Moving Objects To New Positions . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Spreading Objects Apart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Bunching Objects To A Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Making Objects Spin As They Move . . . . . . . . . 63 Randomizing Object Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Shuffling Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 ANIMATION CONTROLS REFERENCE Easy/Advanced Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Track Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Add Camera Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Move Selected Objects To Track... . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Delete Selected Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Select All Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Object Animations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Make Object Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Save Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Rename Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Delete Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Append Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Last Applied Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Object Animations Preset List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Object Animation TRY Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Camera Animations Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 4 Make Camera Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Save Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Rename Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Delete Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Append Preset... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Last Applied Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Camera Animations Preset List . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Camera Animation TRY Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Animation Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Current Time Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Current Time Readout (The GOTO Field) . . . . . . . . 78 Project Start Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Project Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Frame Rate Popup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Motion Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Shutter Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Animation Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Play Work Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Work Area Start And End Markers . . . . . . . . . . 82 Jump To Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Back One Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Play Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Forward One Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Jump To End Of Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Loop With Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator - ProAnimator / ProModeler - User Guide Animation Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Animation Poses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Pose Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Animation Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Path Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Primary vs. Secondary Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Pose Positioning Controls For Objects . . . . . . . . . . 89 Advantages Of Using The Pose Controls . . . . . . . . . 90 Easy Controls For Poses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Bunch/Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Randomize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Local Center Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Advanced Controls For Poses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Start At Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Advanced Move Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Local Center Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Common Center Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Distribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Horizontal Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Vertical Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Circle X, Y, Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Pose Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Pose Action Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator - ProAnimator / ProModeler - User Guide Title Roll (Up/Down) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Title Crawl (Left/Right) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Pitch X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Spin Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Roll Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Free Tumble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Pose Action Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Pose Start / End Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 What Is A Tweak? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Reset Tweaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Reset Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Reset All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Transition Controls For Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Easy Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Ease - Start & End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Cascade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Cascade Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Birth Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Reverse Birth Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Random Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Selection Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Reverse Selection Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Top To Bottom Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Bottom To Top Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Left To Right Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Right To Left Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Arch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 5 Arch Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Advanced Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Cascade Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Cascade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Ease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Ease Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Start Gaps & End Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Clump Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Transition Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Keyframe-Based vs. Generated Paths . . . . . . . . . . 121 Start/End Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Advanced Arch Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Arch Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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