It's clear to us at VIDI that 3D modeling and animation is the hot ticket in multimedia, film, game, and Internet design. As john Lasseter, "Toy Story" Director recently said. "There's unlimited potential for profit in 3D computer modeling and animation. And besides, it looks really cool." VIDI's Presenter 3D makes 3D modeling and animation even cooler with capabilities its quality 3D spline modeling and its Digital SoundStage 3D animation:
• Directional 3D Sound™
• Multi-target Morphing™
• Real-time surface edits
• Blazing fast Phong shader
• RealPhysics™ object dynamics
• KineMagics™ motion effects animators
• Outstanding support for Apple's QuickTime VR
To see for yourself how "cool" Presenter 3D is, we invite you to take a tour through VIDI's CD and its web site. Visit our distinguished users in the "VIDI Presents..." tour and roam through to see examples of their work there and in the VIDI User Gallery. Look in our Technology and Techniques Area to see how the features and capabilities that Presenter offers are applied.
DISTINGUISHED USERS
The coolness of a product is best measured by the work that can be created with it. From NASA, NBC, and the Pueblo Indians to medical research, Presenter 3D is unique in providing a Digital SoundStage on which to build virtual worlds and simulate the real world. With Presenter 3D:
• An industrial designer like Bob Sauls is able to produce for NASA the simulations of space shuttle docking, present flights of the mini-shuttle, and create examples of the vehicles to be used for Mars landings and exploration that were shown on CNN, Nightline, the national news programs, and the Discovery Channel.
• A visionary like Syd Mead is able to build the vehicles and worlds they carry around in their heads for major studios, auto makers, and game producers.
• A graphic artists like Gary Reisman can quickly and easily design and produce a NBC logo, peacock, map, and blinking light animation to highlight the location of its affiliates, design the "Inside Earth 2" introduction, and produce a flying saucer sequence to be added to the intro for "Third Rock from the Sun".
• An educator like Peter Ratner can get his students to realistically model and animate human and imaginary beings that can flex their muscles, make facial expressions synced to spoken words and reproduce the elegant flight motion of birds in a flock.
• A fine artist like Ron Davis, whose works are in permanent exhibit in major museums all over the world, can use Presenter 3D to visualize the color and geometry used in his final works.
• An architect like Dennis Holloway can use Presenter 3D to reproduce the architectural dwellings of the ancient Pueblo Indians, apply them to modern Indian structures, and get his work on the design of the Poeh Cultural Center for the Pojoaque Pueblo Indians published in "Contemporary Native American Architecture" by Oxford University Press.
• Medical researchers can animate the operation of muscles, the normal and abnormal operation of the heart or, like clinical researcher Shirley Bayer, be able to use VIDI's 3D software to create over 200 rendered images of prenatal brain development and get them publishes by CRC Press as the leading atlas on the subject.
VIDI develops and publishes 3D modeling and animation software for the Macintosh. Established in 1986, it has long been recognized for technological vision and leadership in 3D modeling and multimedia.
