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Welcome
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Anim8or
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| Welcome to the home page of
Anim8or. Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program
that I have written over the past couple of years, not as a commercial
endeavor, but because I love 3D graphics,
animation, and programming. While it is far from a complete
professional
level application like 3DStudio MAX or Lightwave, I believe that it has
enough capability to be of use to others.
Version
v0.95 is now available. Anim8or has come a long way since the
first
release called v0.1. There are still may areas that need
improvement, primarily the renderer, but it's getting close to what I
had originally imagined as the magic v1.0. I don't plan on
stopping there, but it'll be a nice milestone along the way.
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R.
Steven Glanville
November
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What's
New
Features
System Requirements
Download
New Anim8or Course
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Check out Ian's fantastic new Anim8or course now available for
download. It
show you step-by-step how to make
models, characters, movies and more, all using Anim8or,
naturally. You can watch a short introduction on the web or
download the full course.
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| What's New |
August 16, 2011 -
New Anim8or course available on CD
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| May 6, 2008 - New
Issues of DotAn8 Magazine |
| April
14, 2008 -
Interview with Tyson Ibele, a very talented early Anim8or user |
April 14, 2007 -
Anim8or in the Movies: Two short films made with Anim8or
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March 31, 2007 -
Fix for V0.95 "Missing Textures" bug
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| January 7, 2007 -
Anim8or Art Covers a Book |
November
4, 2006 -
Version 0.95 is ready to download.
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| March
31, 2006 -
V0.95 progress. |
December 5, 2005 -
Scottish Student wins National Award with Anim8or.
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| January 29, 2005 -
Version v0.9 is ready to download. |
November
16, 2004 -
V0.9 beta is ready to download.
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| September
4, 2004 -
Anim8or now has an "official" chat room. |
| August 2, 2004 -
The first issue of a new e-magazine .an8
is ready to read. |
June 2, 2004 -
Version v0.9 is getting closer...
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| May 20, 2004 -
Anim8or on the Cover of 3D User Magazine (and More) |
September 6, 2003
- Version v0.85 is ready to download!
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August 10, 2003
- The long awaited v0.85 beta is ready to download. Check it out!
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July 14, 2003
- Anim8or in the News!
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June 29, 2003
- The next release is getting close.
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| January 19, 2003 - A
minor
upgrade v0.81 is ready to download. Read about it here and see if
you
need a copy. |
| August 4, 2002 - V0.8 is
finished. Get your copy from the download page! |
| June 30, 2002 - V0.8 beta
is out. Read about it here and get your copy. |
| June 27, 2002 - V0.8 beta
ready this weekend ??? |
| April 1, 2002 - V0.8 is
coming along. |
| April 1, 2002 - Record
number of Anim8or downloads in March. |
| October 31, 2001 - V0.7
is
ready. Be the first on your block with your own copy! |
| September
21, 2001 - Second v0.7 Beta is out! Get your copy here and check it out. |
| August 30, 2001 - V0.7
Beta is out! Get your copy and see what it can do. |
| June 18, 2001 - V0.7
Status. Version v0.7 is still a ways off but it's beginning to
take shape. |
| June 18, 2001 - A v0.65
PDF version of manual is available for download. |
| June 18, 2001 - Anim8or
on
the Mac! I've been told that can be run Anim8or on a Macintosh. |
| April 1, 2001 - Anim8or
Web Ring started. Now all Anim8or relates sites can be linked. |
| March 24, 2001 - v0.65 is
now officially released. Get your copy now! |
| March 12, 2001 - The
v0.65
beta is available. Check out the new modeling tools! |
| March 5, 2001 - Fantastic
new Lighting Effects tutorial, and many new Gallery images. |
| December 25, 2000 -
Merry Christmas! I'm off to Tonga for the real New
Millennium. |
| December 24, 2000 -
There is a new tutorial about Coils and Springs, thanks to Lloyd. |
| November 19, 2000 -
Version 0.62 is out. It fixes a help file loading problem. |
| November 9, 2000 -
There were over 1600 downloads of v0.6 in its short lifetime. |
| November 9, 2000 -
Version 0.61 is now ready to download. The main reason is to fix
a .3ds
texture coordinate export problem, but it also has a Help file thanks
to Jesse Schipilow. |
| November 2, 2000 - I
decided that the free forum offered by my hosting service is a bit too
lame, so I've installed UBB. |
| November 1, 2000 -
Trent the Thief sent me a PDF version of the Anim8or User's Manual. |
| October 30, 2000 - I'm
trying out some forum software that comes with my new hosting service. |
| October 29, 2000 -
Version 0.6 is now posted and ready to download. There are lots
of new things to try out, so get it while it's hot! |
| October 28, 2000 - I'm
in the process of moving to a new domain host with an increased
bandwidth
in anticipation of demand for v0.6. Things might be somewhat
broken
until the whole thing's in place, so please be patient. |
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| For
some holiday cheer, check
out these Christmas pictures make by Anim8or
users:
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| Features |
- 3D
Modeler - Create and modify 3D models. Built-in primitives such
as spheres, cylinders, platonic solids, etc.; mesh-edit and
subdivision; splines, extrusion,
lathing, modifiers, bevel and warps,
- TrueType
font support - 2D and 3D extruded text for any TrueType font.
- OpenGL
based real time operation,
- Import
and modify .3DS (3D Studio), .LWO (Lightwave), and .OBJ (Wavefront)
object files,
- Export
.3DS files,
- Built
in 3D Object browser,
- Jointed
character editor,
- Morph
targets,
- Anti-aliased
software renderer for high quality, production quality images,
- Create
3D scenes and animations and output .AVI movie files, .JPG and .BMP
images,
- Supports
textures, bump maps, soft shadows, spotlights, fog, and much more,
- Texture
support for .BMP, .GIF, and .JPG format files,
- Print
images of scenes and models.
- OpenGL
shaders for realistic previews.
- Scripting
language.
- Plig-ins
for parameteric shape and object export.
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| System Requirements |
- Windows
NT4, WinXP, or Win7,
- OpenGL
accelerated graphics card with full ICD support, (ala GeForce),
- 512
MB memory, 1024MB recommended,
- 25MB
disk space.
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