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NEW RELEASE

MILAN, ITALY, MARCH 16 2022

Hi, I'm Victor Feliz and I'm excited to introduce you to the new anima® improvements. 

First of all, we have made many improvements under the hood of anima® 4 to improve the usability of the software and offer a more robust and efficient solution for your day-to-day projects. Besides, it has become easier to install, activate and manage anima licenses directly from the command line so you can keep your render farm and infrastructure up and running faster.

We have also optimized the 3d people search engine to speed up your workflow and greatly improved the motion blur of 4D digital humans® for much more realistic effects. For those who enjoy anima® ALL today, it will now be possible to use the devices available in your account as render nodes. 

Finally, we have added support for Unreal Engine 5 preview 2 so you can continue to use anima in your advanced real-time projects.

NEW FEATURES

anima® License Tool

• A new command-line interface license tool has been added to the installer. This tool can be used to administer, activate or remove an anima PRO or ALL license from a device without needing to use the application. This tool should prove useful for system administrators or users who wish to activate anima on headless systems like render nodes.

anima®

• Multiple improvements to the filtering functionality and the consistency of the names displayed in the actor and clip libraries. The search filter will no longer include irrelevant information such as asset description.

3ds Max® Plugin

• The velocity channel of the 4D actor will now be filled out correctly so compatible renderers can use that information to create a motion blur effect.

anima® ALL

• A new "render node" mode has been added for anima® ALL. It is now possible to render scenes from any of the pre-authorized devices from a subscription account without taking up a seat as long as the rendering is done on an instance of your 3D app that does not have a UI.

Unreal Engine® Plugin

• Added support for Unreal Engine® 5.0.0 Preview 2.

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