{"id":125,"date":"2008-03-20T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2008\/03\/20\/andy-murdochs-automatron-character-animation-system-now-on-sale\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:56:56","slug":"andy-murdochs-automatron-character-animation-system-now-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/20\/andy-murdochs-automatron-character-animation-system-now-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murdoch&#8217;s Automatron Character Animation System, Now on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/automatron\/Automatron_FS.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/automatron.jpg\" alt=\"Automatron Character Animation System\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"410\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"180\" \/>\n<p><\/a>Big-brained Andy Murdock has gone mad, I tell you, mad! with a deep discount on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/automatron\/Automatron_FS.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automatron<\/a><\/em>, his enormously powerful character animation system for 3DS Max (version 8 or later). It&#8217;s a system he designed based on what he needed for his ongoing film project <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lots of Robots<\/a> <\/em>and it&#8217;s chock full of useful features and subtle enhancements.\n<\/p><p>\nI was one of the beta testers for the system and although I&#8217;m not the smartest tester in the world I was excited by the way it works.\n<\/p><p>\nAutomatron uses a custom character rig that&#8217;s controlled through Maxscript. Once you&#8217;ve skinned your character to the rig you can use the Automatron controls to create custom walk and run cycles, pose all or part of a character, load and save any of those settings, and apply post-processing adjustments (like &#8220;Harryhausen&#8221;, a simulated stop motion effect). There are loads of options for additional IK targets and IK blending.\n<\/p><p>\nBut wait! There&#8217;s more!\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/automatron\/Automatron_FS.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automatron<\/a> also has a crowd control system that&#8217;s been tested with up to 500 characters, and can animate characters moving across surfaces that are <em>also <\/em>animated. <em>Now<\/em> how much would you pay?\n<\/p><p>\nNormally you&#8217;d pay $149.00, which isn&#8217;t a bad deal, but through April 30th Andy&#8217;s dropped this to the low, low price of <strong>$49<\/strong> &#8211; and although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/automatron\/Automatron_FS.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Automatron<\/a> doesn&#8217;t require a license on a render farm&#8217;s nodes, the program can be licensed on two separate machines.\n<\/p><p>\nAnd if you haven&#8217;t seen <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofrobots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lots of Robots<\/a><\/em>, well, you should, you slacker. The DVDs include Max tutorials for many of the techniques and effects he uses.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big-brained Andy Murdock has gone mad, I tell you, mad! with a deep discount on Automatron, his enormously powerful character animation system for 3DS Max (version 8 or later). It&#8217;s a system he designed based on what he needed for his ongoing film project Lots of Robots and it&#8217;s chock full of useful features and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}