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Create real-time 3DgraphicsBroadcastViz Artist covers all areas of today’s broadcastgraphics. It enables designers to buildcomplete virtual sets as well as complex3D animations. It even makes bread-andbuttertasks, such as building geometry andcreating fonts for lower third graphics, moreefficient. Add to that full support for mapsand video and you have a system that takescare of all your design needs.Animations and more. Innovative scenes,compelling graphics, and stunning animations:Viz Artist 3 releases designers fromrepetitive standard tasks and gives themcomplete freedom to concentrate on thecreative side of their work.Video. Viz Artist 3 fully supports videoas part of the creation process. Videoscan be used as parts of a scene, or astextures mapped onto geometry usingUVW coordinates.Splines. The built-in spline editor allowsusers to fully control every aspect of an animation.Parameters can be adjusted eitherby their keyframe values or withthe attached handles.Directors. Controlling animations hasnever been simpler: directors control animationson the timeline. They can be split andmerged and even grouped hierarchically. Aclear representation of complex animationsis provided.Viz Graphic Hub server. Viz Artist3 comes with an integrated multi-userdatabase that serves as the central point forstoring all assets. This asset managementdatabase provides efficient and secure filehandling.Guaranteed data consistency. Allobjects keep track of their references underall circumstances. They stay consistent evenwhen they are copied or moved. This meansthat changes in an object will always affectall connected scenes. Company-wide changesin style, such as new fonts or logos can beaccomplished by editing a single element.PIXELSA user-friendly andeffective real-time3D modelling andanimation tool. Letyour ideas come tolife with Viz Artist.Organizing functionality. Viz Artist offers great flexibilitywhen it comes to organizing references. Scenes, including all theirrelevant references, can be arranged in different projects. Complexscenes often contain many image, object, clip, and font references.These references are registered in Viz Graphic Hub and can be easilysearched for using any of their properties. All elements necessaryfor handling complex designs are accessible from one place.Support for Stereoscopy. For designers the transition fromcreating graphics for 2D playout to stereoscopic playout can be achallenge. With its integrated support for true stereoscopic previewon the same machine, artists can now instantly see how their designtranslates into 3D space and adjust it accordingly. It’s no longernecessary to render elements out and check them on another screenbefore playout.Objects and geometry. Every Viz Artist 3 installation offers awide variety of different parametric objects. The selection contains2D objects and simple 3D objects that can be used to create morecomplex 3D models.Editing 3D objects. Each parametric object has a set of free variablesthat allows designers to alter the object’s features in variousways. For a cylinder, for example, the editable features wouldinclude bevel size, radius, and internal-hole radius. All variablechanges can be animated and externally controlled.Built-in interactivity. Viz Artist 3 features advanced control andinteractivity options. The application comes with its own powerfulscripting language, closely resembling Visual Basic in structureand syntax. The scripting language allows designers to integrateinteractivity and custom logic easily into a scene. It only takes a fewlines of code to create interactive elements such as click buttons orsupport for touchscreens.Viz Artist 3 comes with a variety of built-in functions that enablethe user to easily manipulate different object and function properties.The functions can be addressed from scripts, which can then becompiled and saved as plug-ins. These plug-ins can easily be usedin further scenes and shared with other users.Open for other formats. Viz Artist 3 has the ability to importmodels from other 3D packages. Viz Artist 3 can import files from allmajor 3D packages, such as Maya, 3DS Max, Lightwave, Softimage,and many others. It accepts the majority of these formats’ geometryparameters, such as reference to textures, texture mapping coordinates,smoothing groups, materials, and lighting.Viz Pixel FX plug-ins are based on advanced shader technology,offering designers color correction and video manipulation in VizArtist on a level that up now demanded third-party applications.Viz Artist Key Features• User-friendly and effective real-time 3Dmodelling and animation tool• Full support for maps and video• Full real-time rendering of models from3rd party applications like Maya andSoftimage|xsi• Pre-rendering of scenes for futureplayback• Hardware 2D DVE as well as software 3DDVE• Advanced font style handling• Built-in spline editor for full control overanimation at any time• Full support for undo/redo functionality• Supports shortcuts for all common tasks• Integration with asset managementdatabase for efficient file-handling anddata consistency• Supports Viz Graphic Hub with extendedsearch functionality: all object propertiescan serve as search criteria• Software Development Kit available• Optional Shader plug-ins availableThe Vizrt Catalogue 2011 37