Category |
Feature |
General |
Import image to
subject or background, export image, add blank subject image |
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Project new, open,
save, save as |
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Multiple undo/redo
with history window |
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Timeline with
Background and Subject layers showing image vignettes |
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Set duration, change position on timeline |
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View/hide background
or
subject |
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Erase and
extend background |
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Settings: Imported
image duration, image size warning, exported JPEG quality |
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Comprehensive context
menus (right click) and shortcut keys |
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Publish Animation and/or
video to
https://3dthis.com |
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Sample Animation
projects |
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Sample 3D library
objects including textured basic shapes |
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Import 3D objects in .OBJ
or .3DS formats |
Image Edit Mode |
Edit background image or
subject image |
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Selection marquees:
rectangular, elliptical, free hand lasso, line lasso |
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New selection, add to
selection, subtract from selection, intersect with selection |
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Feathering from 0 to 4
pixels |
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Magic cleaner, edit with red mask, auto-apply mask, shrink/grow
selection (subject image only) |
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Delete, cut, copy,
paste, paste to new image |
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Copy selection, paste
selection |
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Auto-levels,
auto-contrast, white balance |
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Brightness/contrast,
color balance, hue/saturation |
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Blur/sharpen, lighting
effects |
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Hand tools: Eraser,
reveal (subject only), brush/pencil, paint bucket, blur |
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Hand tools controls:
size, shape, flow, mode (normal, lighten, darken) |
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Color select, color
picker |
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Draw shapes: line,
rectangle, filled rectangle, ellipse, filled ellipse, with width and
smoothing controls |
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Draw text: font
select, size, bold, italic, underline, color (picker), smoothing |
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clipboard, shapes and
text are sent to a paste layer for move, resize, rotate, distort
before applying to background or subject images. |
Animate Mode |
View start image &
current frame, view start image only, view current frame only |
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Preview: Frame cursor,
play/stop, auto loop, set best edit frame |
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Display: dots, bones,
trajectories, mesh |
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Initialize: full image
(warping mode), multiple regions contours (skeletal animation) |
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Initialize: 3D
multiple regions from front view image.
Controls: shape, thickness (auto or constant), guard ring, symmetry,
symmetry factor
Define lips, control lip opening, opacity, color |
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Initialize: 3D flat
mesh from a full image (for use with 3D editor tools) |
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3D preview window,
with view control 3 axis, light and camera distance |
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Auto select
region/object with mouse over (can be disabled, then use TAB) |
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Selected region:
Add/remove dot, move dot (including Z axis), add bone and joint,
auto add bone |
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Set joint properties
(interaction, skin fill) |
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Selected region
controls: Hide/show, reset dot, erase user dots, reset
animation, remove region, set current frame as start image |
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Selected region time
curve: linear, reverse, alternate, time curve editor |
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Bone controls: change
orientation, set elastic or solid, remove |
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Multiple region
binding, with single or double binding, disable bindings |
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Conductor box |
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Time curve editor
window: curve library, draw curve (linear or spline), save curve to
a
library |
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Lasso and polygonal
selection: move selection, convert to mesh, split mesh, cut
mesh, add to mesh |
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3D editor tools:
lasso, polygonal, rectangular and elliptical selection, show
selection on 3D preview
Dig/grow mouse modes: spherical, bi-cubic, linear, constant,
tilt plane. Dig/grow both sides, front only, back only |
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Special functions:
track, spin |
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Copy current frame,
export current frame |
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Export current frame
as a 3D image (*.3ds, *.obj, *.stl) |
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Load object / Save as
object |
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Direct object
controls: Set to original size, clone, move, zoom, rotate,
distance (Z), open object effect editor |
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Direct object
controls: Horizontal rotation, vertical rotation |
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Object editor:
Play speed, start frame, auto loop (if object is itself
animated)
Effect curve editor for: horizontal position, vertical position,
scale, rotation, distance (Z), opacity, blur, brightness,
contrast, hue, saturation, red, green, blue |
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Object editor:
Effect curve editor for: horizontal rotation, vertical rotation,
inflation |
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Object editor:
Material replacement -
Color, Transparency |
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Object editor:
Texture replacement by
image or video (animated texture) |
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Add a continuation |
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Settings: preview
render quality, mesh definition |
Movie Mode |
Play, pause, stop,
rewind, auto re-play, play cursor, start & end markers |
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Camera 'Look at' and zoom |
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Move camera vertical,
horizontal, dolly |
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Camera control tags:
find tag backwards, find tag forward, copy previous tag, erase
tag |
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tag curve shapes:
linear, fast rise, slow rise, slow-fast-slow |
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Light/shading:
intensity, horizontal position, vertical position, follow
camera, ambient light, back light, reflection (specular light) |
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Copy current frame,
export current frame |
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Export movie
Movie formats: uncompressed AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, MP4
Bit rate, quality |
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Settings: video size
(min 16x16, max 4096x4096), frames/sec (from 1 to 100), preview
render quality |