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IllusionMage Easy 3D Animation

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Animation One of the pioneering affordable full-featured licensed 3D animation software packages in the market, the IllusionMage Easy 3D Animation Software Program is an advanced professional-level animation software with integrated modelling, rendering, animation and real-time open source 3D creation. Try Now Similar Software Used Post a Review

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Introduction

With 3D animated features and video games being as popular—and lucrative—as they have been in recent years, it’s no wonder why more and more people are becoming interested in becoming 3D animators, VFX artists, and game developers either as a hobby or as a full-fledged profession.

Indulging in the fine art of 3D animation and CGI; however, generally doesn’t come cheap as artists and developers—especially those who work at the top animation, CGI, and gaming studios—are expected to work with high-end professional software such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3DS Max, Houdini, and Cinema 4D, all of which cost in the thousands of dollars to purchase or license by subscription.

Fortunately, good quality, but most importantly, also affordable 3D animation software does exist that are particularly apt for those who are just starting to learn the fundamentals of 3D animation.

One of the pioneering affordable full-featured licensed 3D animation software packages in the market, the IllusionMage Easy 3D Animation Software Program is not only an advanced professional-level animation software with integrated modelling, rendering, animation and real-time open source 3D creation; but also a complete 3D animation training and education resource offering 250+ pages of illustrated tutorials and 20 step-by-step FREE animation software video training modules lasting over 6 hours.

And while IllusionMage may seem quite dated—from its compatibility with Windows 7 64 bit to the old-fashioned infomercial-like presentation of its website and offer of a backup CD—the fact that it still endures after a decade in the market despite the launch of dozens of newer similar 3D animation software since then is a testament to its features continuing to offer good value for the low price you pay.

Features

Visit IllusionMage.com to get not only a complete breakdown of their software’s salient features, but also to watch dozens of helpful videos demonstrating IllusionMage’s features in action, such as:

Easy Interface that’s easy to use and does not overlap or block elements; includes a fully customizable window layout which you can configure with any amount of screen types with custom themes; can be undone easily at any level allowing you to make changes to your mistakes with one-touch; is fast loading in just seconds with minimum system specs; offers simple one-click rendering and modelling options; ability to open and work on multiple windows and multiple projects; and is based on a powerful inbuilt database system that facilitates quick access to all features.

Advanced 3D Modelling with ultra-realistic 3D models making a full range of object types and functions possible; offers complete versatility to create any face shape, face type or face emotion you desire; supports a full range of 3D object types such as polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts; offers functions like extrude, bevel, cut, spin, screw, warp, subdivide, and noise; allows editing of textures, sharpness, and shape of any model easily and quickly; deform any face in any way you like with tools like Lattice, Curve, Armature.

3D Cartoon Animation offers a non-linear cartoon animation action editor that allows you to edit movements and motion easily; creates blendshapes from existing targets; edits cartoon character poses with animated deformers (Lattice, Curve); allows sound synchronisation support for audio playback; uses a timeline to preview cartoons quickly; and allows custom and procedural animation effects

Realtime 3D/Game Creation utilizes a convenient, intuitive graphical interface to edit your game landscapes and action without any programming skill; offers PlayStation level software functionalities including Bullet Physics Library, Bullet Detection, and Rigid Body Dynamics Library for realistic motion and physics; has the ability to create all types of shapes including: Convex polyhedron, box, sphere, cone, cylinder, capsule and static triangle mesh; offers an auto collision detector and enhanced physics engine to program your own crashes and action sequences easily; offers full support for vehicle dynamics and that includes all spring reactions, stiffness, damping, tyre friction etc.; creates realistic lighting with OpenGL lighting modes that includes transparencies, animated and reflection-mapped textures; and allows instant playback of games & interactive 3D content so you have a preview of how your game looks like.

3D Editing & Compositing creates extremely realistic and rich landscapes; is memory efficient and threaded for faster previews and quicker editing of your landscaping elements; utilizes a preview panel so you can quickly edit and make changes on selected portions without loading the entire landscape; supports "real-time" sequencing to edit hours of videos with Waveform and U/V scatter plots; supports multiple audio and visual files in order to import all types of graphic files and sources for your landscape; supports float images as well as regular 32-bit images.

Enhanced 3D Rendering allows for very fast previews with the inbuilt raytracer; supports oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels; includes tile-based and fully threaded and renders layers and passes; creates effects such as halo, lens flares, fog, and more; creates realistic edges with edge rendering for toon shading; allows for quick preview in any 3D view using a separate panel; supports the use of the famous Yafray render engine; export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight, Indigo.

Complex 3D Shading allows you to create 3D shapes realistically to create objects, buildings and other life-like items; supports shaders like WardIso, Toon, Blinn, Phong, Cook Torr and Diffuse shaders such as Lambert, Minnaert, Toon, Oren-Nayar, Lambert; mixes complex materials easily and quickly with the node editor; 3D shading "render" tool allows you to create any texture from the basic skins to advanced shading textures (wood, plasma, etc); features tangent shading so you can give any object an anisotropic effect such as for wood textures and more; uses environment maps to render and shade amazingly REAL landscapes and scenery.

Interactive 3D Rigging allows you to efficiently mimic real world skeletal systems for animation purposes; features bone and skeleton creation to form skeletons for basic 3d model movements; offers interactive 3D skinning with fast color tone chooser for human skins; fully functional Automatic Skinning (heat equilibrium based); eliminates elbow twists with B-spline interpolated bones for life-like movements; has the ability to make 3d models turn, run, jump, twist, stretch and do any physical activity realistically and life-like!

Realistic Physics & Particles employs an advanced "Particle system" that can be attached to any object - creating real-life particle and gravity motions; offers realistic gravity effects using control methods like curve guides, wind and vortex effects; controls individual particles with geometry using an easy "point and click" system; offers the ability to create hair strands quickly using a static particle system that supports all particle control methods; includes a fluid simulator with fully animated inflow, outflow, obstacle, gravity and viscosity animation, and fluid objects; provides real-time soft body solver integrated in mesh, lattice, curve and text objects; and supports collision detection and particle field effects like Wind or Vortex.

Export & Work With Multiple File Types allows you to save all scene data in a single .blend file, even images, sounds or fonts can be packed for easy transportation; features a powerful built-in database system allowing instances, scene management, and dynamic linking multiple project files; .blend format supports compression, digital signatures, encryption, forwards/backwards compatibility and can be used as a library to link to from other .blend files;

IllusionMage can open, modify and save in the following formats: 2D: TGA, JPG, PNG, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI, Quicktime - GIF, TIFF, PSD, and MOV; 3D: 3D Studio, AC3D, COLLADA, DEC Object File Format, DirectX, Lightwave, MD2, Motion Capture, Nendo, OpenFlight, PLY, Pro Engineer, Radiosity, Raw Triangle, Softimage, STL, TrueSpace, VideoScape, VRML, VRML97, Wavefront, X3D Extensible 3D, xfig export.

Highlights

IllusionMage is compatible with all versions of Windows - including Windows 8 and 7 64 bit. Unfortunately, the software is not compatible with Apple Mac’s iOS operating system.

As for IllusionMage’s price, you can get the Basic software version for just USD $47 or the Upgraded package (includes everything in Basic plus 6 hours of video tutorials, 250+ pages of illustrated guides, Help Desk support; and a 60-Day Guarantee) for $76.99.

Meanwhile, IllusionMage also offers an IllusionMage VIP Deluxe Package for $77 (regular price: $489) that includes four (4) additional software bundles offering enhanced 3d animation functionalities: The 3D Modeler (a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture;The Ultimate Toon Creator Software (cartoon animation modeler); Sketcher (a program for creating old-school 2-dimensional animation; and PickaColor (a program that tells you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of any color with just a point-and-click of your mouse).

VIP Deluxe also offers priority 1-on-1 same day support, private members-only training, 60-Day Guarantee, and FREE lifetime upgrades.

Conclusion

IllusionMage may be one of the older, still existing 3D animation software packages in the market, but at just $47 for the Basic program, it still offers good value for the kind of 3D animation tools you get, which may be a good deal especially for those who are learning 3D animation fundamentals for the first time. As a starter kit, IllusionMage is a viable option to tinker around with.