Kinemation

Kinemation

Kinemation was one of the first inverse kinematics packages for 3D computer animation, created for Wavefront Technologies' package The Advanced Visualizer (TAV). In 1995, Wired described Kinemation as "a huge breakthrough in motion animation" [cite journal|title=The New Hollywood|author=Paula Parisi|journal=Wired|issue=12|volume=3|date=Dec 1995|url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/new.hollywood_pr.html] . It was used in the mid-1990s by companies such as Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company (Judge Dredd). Portions of Kinemation were disassembled and re-assembled into Alias-Wavefront's flagship product Maya.

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* [http://www.oldcliche.com/movies/Thorax.mpeg An Animation That Was made in 1995 with Kinemation, pre-Maya]
* [http://www.kwcc.com/ Kleiser-Walczak Studios]


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