Kelseus unveils Antics Pre-Viz

Kelseus, specialist in intelligent 3D animation, has announced the launch of Antics Pre-Viz, its unique pre-visualisation product that uses intelligent real time 3D animation technology.
Aimed at the pre-visualisation process for both live action and complex 3D animated productions, Antics Pre-Viz allows users to quickly and realistically produce multi-cam action scenes involving multiple characters, storylines, shots and interactions, with which to communicate ideas to clients, producers, financiers and crew members.
Mark Burton, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, said: “Pre-visualisation tools that are currently available offer either fairly primitive or hugely expensive, time-consuming options to users and do not truly address their requirements. We are changing that by providing a product with an easy to learn feature set whose speed of use, animated 3D output and affordability will make it a standard within a live action or animation production workflow.”
Antics Pre-Viz is the first software application to allow both expert animators as well as members of a production team, such as directors, DOPs and editors, to create and manage their own realistic, animated pre-visualisation projects in a real time 3D environment. An intuitive tool set and logical workflow allow rapid set assembly and layout, easy camera set-up and configuration and the creation of intelligent characters, shots and scenes. Scenes are stored as animated storyboards which can be cut together and output as either AVI or MOV files or as JPEG storyboards.
Burton continued: “Pre-visualisation can offer substantial savings in production costs, as well as enhance the creative process at the planning stage. With today’s increasing time and budget constraints, concepts and plans must be brought to life quickly and realistically or else the process is just not worthwhile. In Antics Pre-Viz we have a production planning tool that does just that, at a very affordable price point.”
The ability to work in a real time 3D environment using point and click, or simple action commands given to intelligent characters who can navigate and interact with their environment, makes Antics Pre-Viz a truly interactive and creatively efficient process.
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