Pantomime will be available for purchase from DAZ Productions' on-line store. Click image below to visit DAZ's website and purchase Pantomime.
Pantomime is available for both PC and Macintosh
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Pantomime Tab Editing Video (8m 46s)
"Pantomime is a tool that no DAZ|Studio user should ever live without. Finally, a tool that makes working in 3D artistic! It is intuitive to use and greatly streamlines my posing workflow. Using Pantomime in conjunction with PowerPose has made DAZ|Studio the ultimate posing package. Art tools for an artist!" - Josh Darling, DAZ Productions
Pantomime™ is a unique approach to posing and animating figures in DAZ|Studio. Pantomime uses a series of custom editors to streamline access and control of different aspects of the characters by presenting buttons that can not only select, but also manipulate single or groups of controls that are most commonly used for posing and animating. Pantomime gives you everything you need to pose your characters without needing to switch views or zoom into to those hard to reach areas of your scene. You can get to everything you need right from the custom editor.
This novel approach to the character animation user interface simplifies the complex and sometimes tedious task of manipulating the dozens or even hundreds of controls needed to make your models come alive. Pantomime provides access to everything you need from one simple interface. Pantomime speeds up your most time consuming tasks, and make animating your characters and giving them professional looking body and facial expressions easy, fun and completely interactive. Pantomime makes even the most complex scenes easy to set up, and makes figure posing more play than work.
To use Pantomime, simply open the special Pantomime view inside DAZ|Studio, and select one of the default custom editing tabs. Select one of the figures loaded into your scene from the pull down menu, and instantly the editing tab lights up with buttons allowing you to control the bones, groups of bones, morphs and groups of morphs (expressions). Simply click on a button in the custom editing tab and drag the mouse. You have full control over the figure without even touching the view port. In fact, Pantomime will not interfere with your use of any of the DAZ|Studio tools, making your control over the view post even more powerful. You no longer need special cameras set up for posing, you can control you characters from the main camera.
Pantomime comes with standard templates for manipulating body, hands, and facial expressions. If you want to create your own custom tab, or modify the one you're currently using, simply select the tab editor function from the pull down menu. You can make changes to the existing custom editors, or create your own. When you're finsihed, just close the tab editor, and you can use you new or modified editor tabs immediately without missing a beat. The tab editor make creating and adjusting your work environment a fully integrated part of your posing and animating process.
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