ObjectDancer is the most intuitive and powerful tool for creating rich, exciting animations. ObjectDancer was created for the professional creative designer, but is an affordable and easy-to-use tool for the non-professional animator or Web site designer. Dancer will allow you to create professional multimedia animations within minutes and to display them either directly on the Internet or to integrate them into a multimedia title using your favorite authoring environment.
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Interested in using ObjectDancer to complement your existing tool set ? It's definitely the tool for you. ObjectDancer makes it easy to input and integrate elements and different data formats exported from a variety of graphics or multimedia applications including Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Director, CorelDraw, or LightningDraw with a simple drag-and-drop operation onto Dancer's Composition Window. Dancer then allows you to choreograph imported objects into exciting, high-impact animations.
PaceWorks has developed a proprietary technology called Scriptorium, which provides a time-based, object-oriented environment with patent pending features facilitating the development of animation effects, sharing of animation attributes between objects, and integration of music and rhythm characteristics in the whole animation.
Scriptorium is the core technology at the base of PaceWorks' products and leverages off the time-synchronization features of QuickTime and the powerful graphics capabilities of Apple's QuickDraw GX technology - leading text-manipulation features, sophisticated color modeling with translucency control and extended image quality and rendering performance control.
PaceWorks' products will address particular customer needs by building on top of Scriptorium creation tools characterized by full drag-and-drop support, an intuitive interface, and a time-driven framework. Dancer is PaceWorks' first product based on the Scriptorium technology.
Time Oriented Environment
The most important element of animation is the way an object's
charactersitics change within a given time period. ObjectDancer
introduces the concept of TOE or Time-Oriented Environments,
where changing object characteristics (color, transparency, etc.)
and movement to create smooth animations becomes completely
simple and easy. With ObjectDancer, you can synchronize movement
and characterstic transitions with pinpoint accuracy to .WAV,
.AIFF or MIDI files. The way an object moves or changes can also
be simply replicated as a "Dance" within ObjectDancer
to allow you to apply it to any other object you create.
Human Interface
ObjectDancer was designed with the complete animation process in
mind. Users can simply drag pictures, images, sounds and videos
to the Composition window directly from the desktop. Modifying
the motion path and controlling the motion speed are just a mouse
click away. In addition, importing music and sounds from any
audio CD is simple. Creating animation has never been so easy.
Cross Platform Solutions
Creative work designed within ObjectDancer can be viewed within
Windows 95, Windows 3.1, UNIX and the Mac OS. Through a simple
one step process, animations can be exported to QuickTime movies,
GIF89a animations, or Java applets. Create Web enabled animations
easily and spice up your web site.
Animations on the Web or CD-ROM
ObjectDancer provides professionals who need to develop
animations, with the ability to export a single project to
several file formats. Through this process animations can be
easily exported to QuickTime for integration into CD-ROM.
Animations can also be exported to GIF89a or Java for easy
integration into any HTML file. Create exciting animated Web
pages wihtout obligating your customers to download additional
plug-ins !
Reusable libraries of Objects and Dances
Unlike other authoring programs, ObjectDancer allows you to store
objects and their dances in libraries that can be reused in other
projects. A "dance' is the change in an object's position,
size, scale, skew, shape, color, transparency, motion path,
rotation, or any other attribute over time. By allowing libraries
to be reused within multiple projects, users improve their
productivity and build their portfolios.
Simplified Animation Creation
With ObjectDancer, objects are designed to easily inherit any art
of a dance from any other object. With a simple drag-and-drop
operation multiple objects can be modified to create an effect
that was designed once.
Animation and Time-Ripple Effect for Objects and Text
Any portion of text, from a word to each individual character,
can be animated separately and its evolution in time controlled
precisely.With ObjectDancer, make your characters and objects
dance in all directions then smoothly recompose the original text
effortlessly.
Export to your favorite authoring environments
To create multimedia titles or Enhanced CDs, you can export a
Dancer animation as a QuickTime movie into Director or Authorware
to further develop navigation and interactivity.