David Saraceno, forensic animator with DigitaLaw

"Life Forms Studio 3.0 brings a wealth of enhancements that streamline creating realistic character movements for animations."

 

ABOUT LIFE FORMS AND ELECTRICIMAGE:

To use Life Forms with ElectricImage you must have EIAS or EI Broadcast, and the EI BIoVision Plugin (available bundled with Life Forms from our order page).

Pull down these menus to learn more about how Life Forms works with ElectricImage:

Life Forms complements EI with these common file formats: (pull down) Models into Life Forms: FACT Models out of Life Forms: DXF Movement out of Life Forms: OBM, Biovision BVA

Known Limitations: (pull down) Life Forms movement data is not compatible with EI 2.8R Life Forms movement data cannot drive mesh models in EI EI imports Life Forms movement data as custom keyframes only

(IMPORTANT: the Life Forms and ElectricImage project files necessary to complete these tutorials must be downloaded from the "GetDown" section below)

TUTORIAL ONE - PDF (832k):

• Learn how to move your models into Life Forms from ElectricImage,
• how to create movement in Life Forms, and
• how to export your movement to ElectricImage

 

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Tutorial One downloads:

• Entire Tutorial (.pdf) and sample files
• All Life Forms and EI files used in tutorial
  (needed to complete tutorial properly)
• Final EI project file
• Final Life Forms animation

 

Life Forms plugins related to Electric Image:

• FACT + improved BVH plugins for Life Forms 2.1 only (last updated Feb 1998)

 

For our comprehensive list of plugins visit our plugins page.