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FrameForge 3D
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Innoventive Software |
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List. price:
$349.00
Your Price:
$285
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Item #:
FFS-001
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Description
Don’t
draw storyboards. Direct them!™
That's not just a slogan;
it's the whole philosophy behind FrameForge 3D Studio. Its virtual set and
fully articulated actors bring the location to you, giving you the freedom to
explore and experiment with your vision as a director in ways never before
possible.
FrameForge 3D Studio will turn your Storyboarding
prep-work from an exercise in graphic arts into a dynamic, creative directorial
experience. It does so by giving you an easy-to-manipulate 3D virtual film
studio where you can build rooms, street corners, exteriors or whatever you
need with drag'n'drop simplicity then add props and set dressing, block and
pose your actors, and start shooting.
Highlights
• 3D Made Easy! Props and characters
move as easily as pieces on a chess board, making 3D Storyboarding even easier
than the old-fashioned clip-art 2D storyboarding programs.
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Complete Pose Control allows you to apply reusable poses to actors or define
new ones with resolution down to individual fingertips.
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Real-World Object Interactions makes seating a character into a chair or giving
them a gun as easy as dragging them together.
• Instant Set
Building with drag'n'drop scalable walls that snap together, featuring movable,
sizable windows and doors that open to any angle desired.
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Multiple Camera Views let you easily place, set and display multiple angles and
shots
• Real-World Camera Controls include Pan, Tilt, Dolly, Zoom,
and Crane
• Shot Information includes camera height, angle of
view, and zoom settings
• Integrated Shot Manager with scalable,
stretchable movement arrows and shot framing boxes
• Slide-Show
playback of stored storyboard frames with individual shot duration and dissolve
• Storyboard Shot linking to scripts written in Movie Magic®
Screenwriter, Final Draft® or virtually any other script writing package
• Exports a Variety of Formats including HTML pages, JPEG Files,
or Macromedia® Flash® Animations
The real
world is 3D. Your storyboarding program should be too.
Need to
start a crane shot from twenty feet up, then crane down around a school bus
dropping off kids, and end with a push in tight on a doorway? With FrameForge
3D Studio, you can literally shoot all that just as if you were on location.
You can even add in location and/or equipment limitations too. For example, if
you know that the room you'll be shooting in has an 8' ceiling, or you only
have access to a 35-200mm zoom lens, you can enter those limitations for that
set and FrameForge 3D Studio won't let you plan anything you can't actually do.
 Simple,
Intuitive Interface
FrameForge 3D Studio's design is based on a
the paradigm of a television control room, with monitors at the top of the
screen displaying the set through up to eight different cameras simultaneously.
(
CONTROL ROOM ) | (
SHOT MANAGER )
Its use of familiar concepts and
Real-World Camera controls make framing shots so easy that storyboarding in
FrameForge 3D Studio becomes a process of creative exploration far beyond just
“getting it on paper.”
The Control Room is where you
build your sets, place your cameras, and record shots for your storyboard. In
addition to the view through the cameras, it also gives you an overhead bird's
eye Blueprint View which is an invaluable tool for building and populating
sets.
 Working
in 3D has never been easier!
FrameForge 3D Studio was designed
specifically to make 3D Storyboarding easy. Quickly and easily create sets with
our drag’n’drop walls that stretch and snap together. Add movable,
hinged single & double doors that open to any angle, and movable,
completely sizable windows. You can give the walls a specific length and
height, or build your set free-hand then read back the wall measurements for
live set construction. (
SCREEN SHOT )
And when you're shooting, you can make
individual walls (or other objects) invisible for a specific camera only. This
makes it easy to capture a shot you couldn't have otherwise without
compromising the integrity of your set—the equivalent of pulling out a
flat on a sound stage.
Built sets can easily be reused in other
projects, and even shared with other FrameForge 3D Studio users.
 Working
in 3D has never been easier!
Precise placement of props, actors,
and cameras can all be done in a bird's eye two-dimensional Blueprint View, or
switch instantly to any camera's view and move any object or actor around as
easily as if you were moving a piece along a chessboard. Additional functions
such as tilt, elevate and spin are accessed via easy-to-use multi-throttle
controls. (
BLUEPRINT VIEW )
More than
Interiors - a lot more
With a number of supplied location
"floors" (2d drawn images of streets, grass, city intersections and so on),
numerous prop & picture cars, buildings, trees and even topology objects,
you can create the exteriors you need in very short order. Or perhaps you'll
want to drop in one of the supplied panoramas for a 360 degree backdrop…
or even go shoot a 360 panorama of your real location and bring THAT in as your
set's backdrop.
FrameForge 3D Studio comes with nearly 300 posable,
manipulatable objects common to the home, office and outside world. Everything
from school buses, bicycles, computers, guns and knives all the way down to the
kitchen sink. They work like their real world counterparts too: Executive
Chairs swivel & tilt, tensor lamps lift and bend, desk drawers open and
trees even lose their leaves. And as you would expect, most of them can have
patterns and colors changed so you can have that neon pink couch in front of
the poster of Elvis… or a red convertible instead of a yellow one.
Real World Object Interactions
Pre-established relationships between objects make it even easier. Drag an
actor into a chair or onto a motorcycle and he’ll automatically sit
appropriately. Or drag a gun over to his ex-girlfriend and she’ll grab it
in her hand. Don’t like that exact pose? No problem; adjust any of the
actor’s joints as desired, either with pre-posed full and partial poses
(only affects some joints, such as an arm or head), or choose direct joint
control with resolution down to individual fingertips to communicate your
emotional and visual intent like never before. If you build a new
pose/relationship we haven’t thought of, you can save it, reuse it, share
it with other FrameForge 3D Studio users, and even optionally designate it to
be automatically applied when those specific objects collide in the
future.
 Dynamic
Characters
FrameForge 3D Studio supplies female and male children
and adult actors with a variety of hairstyles and ethnicities. Choose the base
type you want for each character in your script, then change the hairstyle and
color of their lips, hair, pants, tops, etc, to get just the look you need to
make them unique. Save them as a new Character and you can simply drag'n'drop
that new character into any scene. (
GREEN ROOM VIEW )
And while our actors come with
many preset poses and relationships, you always have complete pose control of
head, body, limb, and hand positioning to fully communicate your emotional and
visual intent.
 Online
Script Supervision
FrameForge 3D Studio imports your formatted
script from all major script writing packages and word processors including
Movie Magic® Screenwriter™, Final Draft® and MS Word®. Once
imported, FrameForge 3D Studio can automatically generate blank sets for every
unique location, and you can associate your stored shots with text in the
script on a line-by-line basis, allowing you to visually see your shot coverage
like never before. (
SCRIPT LINKING )
Each bar to the left of text on the
script represents one associated shot, and its duration. Simply position your
mouse over any given shot's bar and a small pop-up of that shot will
automatically appear, allowing you to "walk-through" your planned coverage in
any easy visual manner.
Ultimate Shot
Management
The Shot Manager allows you to view, rearrange, delete
and edit any of your stored shots. Decide you want to tighten up a close-up, or
give someone more headroom? Just double-click that shot and you'll be taken
back to that set, exactly as it was when you first snapped it-including all
actors, props and camera positioning. Make any changes you want and snap it
again to replace the old version.
You can add movement arrows and
camera framing boxes-which designate zoom or pans within a shot-to your shot,
then stretch, scale, flip, and tilt these arrows/boxes to create just the look
you want.
 Unprecedented Shot Information
Because your
storyboards are created in a virtual set that supports 16-70mm formats and
numerous aperture settings, each shot is stored along with the camera's exact
height, focal length and angle of view at the time the shot was snapped. In
addition to the view and settings of a particular camera, the program also
stores a bird's-eye blueprint view of the set which gives you set layout,
proportions, and camera position for that shot. All this information -
including the blueprint view can be exported or printed out along with your
storyboards, making your storyboards an even more dynamic tool in planning out
set design, equipment needs, and best order of shooting. (
SHOT MANAGER )
Present Your
Vision
With FrameForge 3D Studio, it goes a lot beyond just
printing. Of course, you can print your storyboards in grayscale or full color
in either a quick draft mode or rendered directly to the printer to make best
use of your printer's true resolution. But you can also view your shots as a
slideshow within the shot manager where you can tailor the duration of each
shot down to a fraction of a second.
Or you can export this slide show
as a Macromedia® Flash animation viewable in any web browser (with
appropriate free plug-in). Or perhaps you'll want to post the storyboard on the
web or an intranet for your production staff as a collection of automatically
generated HTML pages with full shot and textual information. Or finally, you
can even export just the graphics to bring into PowerPoint® or
FinalCut® for other presentation.
Here are two small examples of
the first of these two export formats:
1.
Stalker HMTL Pages show two scenes exported as HTML with
full shot information and blueprint view.
2.
Stalker as Flash Animation shows the same two scenes
exported as a Macromedia(r) Flash animation with full control over exact shot
duration and with any continuing shots displayed as dissolves rather than cuts.
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Testimonials
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“FrameForge 3D Studio rocks!
Complicated setups that would otherwise take hours to work out on the set are
communicated in a fraction of the time, saving money and brain damage.” --
Michael Steven Gregory, writer/director "Silver Surfer,"
"We, The Screenwriter," "Armageddon Jones"
“Thank you for
FrameForge 3D Studio! We are finding the program extremely easy to navigate and
produce well thought out segments. I especially appreciate the camera's
capability to be used at any angle, which is an immeasurable benefit for our
productions.” -- Marsha Reece, President of Silver
Lining Studios
“I am an artist and a motion picture &
TV producer and I love FrameForge 3D Studio. Thank you! I appreciate the ease
of use and technical expertise of the software, and it has been a tremendous
asset for our work.” -- Marce Swing, Ph. D.,
President, ENM Digital Media Incubator for Independent Filmmakers
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Demo
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DOWNLOAD A DEMO
The FrameForge 3D
Studio demo installs directly from the Web. The link above will download the
file FrameForge Demo Setup.exe (550 KB) which you then must run from an
internet-enabled computer running Windows to download and install the actual
program which will be consist of approximately another 25MB
download.
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DOWNLOAD
DEMO ]
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System
Requirements
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WINDOWS
• Pentium III
350Mhz machine
• Windows 95/ME/XP or above
• 128 MB RAM
(256MB RAM Recommended)
• 65 MB Hard disk space
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FrameForge 3D
Studio
Innoventive Software |
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List. price:
$349.00
Your Price:
$285
You save:
$54.00
Item #:
FFS-001
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WIN/MAC
CD-ROM |
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