Their main applications in the field of graphic design include:
(1) packaging design
(2) Sales and marketing field
(3) Printing advertisements
(4) Training and certificate design
(5) product visualization and animation
(6) Publish information online and print the catalogue.
Lightwave: Lightwave is one of the few heavyweight 3D software with a long history and many successful cases.
Since 1993, 13 Golden Time Emmy Award has been won by artists who rely on Newtek to win the Emmy Award as a key component of their animation/visual effects pipeline.
LightWave 3D developed by NewTek Company in the United States is a 3D animation software with high cost performance. Its function is very powerful, and it is one of the few heavyweight 3D animation software in the industry. Light wave 3D started from the interesting AMIGA and developed to today's 8. Version 5 has become a very powerful 3D animation software, supporting WINDOWS 98/NT/2000/Me and MAC OS 9/Xp. Widely used in movies, television, games, web pages, advertising, printing, animation and other fields. It is easy to operate, easy to learn and use, and has extremely powerful functions in biological modeling and character animation. The rendering module based on ray tracing and light energy transfer makes its rendering quality almost perfect. With its excellent performance, it is favored by film and television special effects production companies and game developers. The detailed and realistic hull model in the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic, the movie special effects in The Red Planet, and many classic games such as Dinosaur Crisis 2 and Resident Evil-vilani Card are all developed and produced by light wave 3D. The professional version is designed for non-3D animation experts, including lovers of instant film production. It provides more convenient instant movie previews and draft movie scenes. IClone Professional Edition: Generate 3D projects, automate facial animation, edit facial expressions, special effects animation wizard, edit character actions, edit scene timeline, set camera lights, etc.
The new generation of "iClone 4" will create a more vivid and moving 3D movie for you, provide a brand-new skeleton design, make the movements perfectly presented, adjust the cool visual effects at any time, add gorgeous visual effects to the animation, and add a 3D plant system to make the scene more realistic and detailed. IClone 4.0 has more advanced character creation, more exciting real-time visual effects, and more complete and powerful film production tools. You can easily customize your digital characters, costumes, 3D backgrounds and real-time visual effects through iClone 4.0. With iClone 4.0, everything is easy! The new features included in iClone 4.0 will increase the richness of film production and appreciation. Brand-new G2 characters and clone cloth make the movements of characters smoother, fashion production more popular, and make it easy for you to create your own digital characters. IClone 4.0 also provides a variety of visual effects to choose from, including more than 40 built-in particle effects and 16 fog effects. The new LivePlants feature provides backgrounds such as forests, flowers and trees, making 3D movies lifelike. The new iClone 4.0 brings a new transcendence experience of image production. You can use ICONE's role-making and special effects functions to assign roles, set backgrounds, set props, and control the dynamic special effects of lights and cameras for your movies. IClone 4.0 provides a complete professional video production environment to meet all your needs when making movies. Whether a virtual character makes people feel alive or not, facial expression is a very important key. In the face dynamic template of iClone 4, there are also many expressions that can be used immediately. Although there is little difference in expression, the change is limited to moving eyebrows, blinking eyes and changing mouth shape, if it can be used properly in animation, the charm of virtual characters will be more vivid and the fidelity will be greatly improved. By adjusting the function, you can also enhance the range of specific expressions.
As long as you load the sound file in wav format and use the expression template, your avatar can speak. However, if the lens focuses on the close-up of the characters, it is easy to show the unnatural feeling of behind-the-scenes dubbing because of the lack of mouth shape. Only if you want to further adjust your mouth shape and expression, you must use it with CrazyTalk, a sister product of the same company. Jiashang Technology was founded in 1993, which is mainly devoted to the application of the core technologies of character animation and multimedia human-computer interaction. At the end of 2000, Reality Company was established in Silicon Valley, USA. With its unique global 3D real-time computing technology and motion capture design and development experience, it integrates advanced technologies such as 3D special effects imaging effect, facial dynamic simulation and limb dynamic simulation, and becomes an image and animation tool for ordinary users to create personal digital content. In recent years, it has focused on international marketing and achieved outstanding results. At present, its global distribution partners cover nearly 65,438+00 countries such as Europe, North America and Asia, and it is one of the few domestic software companies that focus on brand marketing.
Network animation software: FLASH
FLASH:Flash is a two-dimensional vector animation software designed by American Macromedia Company. It usually includes Macromedia Flash for designing and editing Flash documents and Macromedia Flash Player for playing Flash documents. Now, Flash has been acquired by Adobe, and the latest version is Adobe Flash CS5.
Three Basic Functions of Flash Animation Design
The three basic functions of Flash animation design are the most important and basic in the whole knowledge system of Flash animation design, including drawing and editing graphics, tweening animation and masking. These are three closely connected logical functions, which have existed since the birth of Flash.
[1] Drawing and editing graphics
Drawing and editing graphics is not only the basic skill of making Flash animation, but also the basic skill of making multimedia. Only when the basic skills are solid can the future study and creation be smooth sailing.
Drawing and editing graphics with Flash Professional 8-this is the first of the three basic skills of Flash animation creation.
In the process of drawing, learning to use components to organize graphic elements is also a major feature of Flash animation.
[2] tween animation
Tween animation is the core of the whole Flash animation design, and it is also the biggest advantage of Flash animation. It has two forms: animation deformation and shape deformation.
The most important thing for users to learn Flash animation design is to learn "tween animation" design.
There are some subtle differences when using movie editing components and graphic components to create animations. You should fully grasp these subtle differences.
[3] Mask
Mask is indispensable in Flash animation creation-this is an important highlight of the three basic functions of Flash animation design.
Users can create more colorful animation effects by using masks and tween animations: image switching, flame background text, peeping leopard in a pipe, etc. They are all practical animations. Moreover, from these animation examples, users can draw inferences and create more practical animation effects.
The principle of masking is very simple, but there are many ways to realize it, especially when it is combined with tween animation and film editing elements, it can create ever-changing forms. You should make a summary of these forms, so that you can create various forms of animation effects in a targeted manner.
Summary: the root of Flash animation
Flash animation is a mixture of "mask+tween animation+frame-by-frame animation" and components (mainly movie clips). Through different combinations of these elements, ever-changing effects can be created.
Now animation design has mushroomed in China, and there are many animation design training institutions in the society: for example, Beijing Xinhua Computer School, all of which are aimed at animation design training institutions!