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Animation Tool for Amateurs and Pros

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PCQ Bureau
New Update

Designers of all levels can now create professional-looking 3D animated

graphics with Effect3D Studio software. To make a running animation you can

select clips, duration, frames, and the delay of the frames from the composer

page.

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Effect3D Studio includes a real-time 3D preview window that enables you to

adjust your image and can bring the results in real time. Effect3D Studio

includes a gallery that has a plethora of 3D objects, background images,

animation examples, photorealistic and non-photorealistic rendering style

effects and lighting effects. Open these images and manually adjust various

settings and parameters to achieve your desired effect. You can even import your

photos and graphics, and these images can be used as background or as a 3D

object. Here we will show you how to animate a knot using the software.

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Applies To:

Designers, 3D artists & animators



Price: $99.95


USP: Learn to animate in a day


Primary Link: www.reallusion.com


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First, to select a background click on the

Select Background tool, which shows you the background gallery. Choose

BG_C13 background and click on Apply Background
Click Select Object tool, which brings lots

of 3D objects in different categories. Select the Knot3D object from the

Basic category and make the size to 256x256
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For making the object more appealing, give

some light effects to the Knot3D image. Click Lighting Effect tool and

select Standard Light category. Choose Light 16 from the list
Click the Animation Effect tool, for

applying animation effect to the Knot3D object, and select Simple Movement

category. From the category, choose Roll zx movement
Select the Export File tool and choose GIF

format. Make anti-aliasing option 'Best' for high-quality rendering. Click

Export Image File and give a file name, say 1
Click the Rendering Effect button which will

show you the different rendering effects. From the window, select Wireframe

rendering style and press Apply button to update the changes to the project
Go to Image Effects tool and select the Tone

image processing style. Make the Tone background brightness 60. Click Export

Image File and give a file name, say 2
Press Animation Composer & click Add Clip. A

window for selection shows files 1 & 2 (Figs. 5 & 7). Click & add files

twice to animation list. During this process transition files also get

created automatically
We get 4 clips and 3 transition files in the

animation composer list. Highlight Clip1 and Clip2 from the Animation List

and set the end frame 20. Highlight Clip3 and Clip4 and set the start frame

21. Select Tran1 and Tran3 and change the length settings to 20 and Delay

0.1. Make the transition mode Dissolve. Click the play button that will show

you 40 frames animation
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