3D Me Now

  I.    Platforms, Price, and Company

• Platforms   :  Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP

• Development :  Rich Media                                                                                                                                                                    

• Prices          :  $1,$$$  But the free version we can download here

• Company   : bioVirtual Ltd ( but the company  has ceased to trade) email: biovirtual_enquiries@hotmail.com

 II.    Application

• 3DMeNow is a real-time photogrammetry application that allowing users of all skill levels to build the highest quality models using a simple control-point(perimeter-baseed) methodology. Otherwise, 3DMeNow is a modeling and animation tool for 3D real time humans using to build recognizable human and charcter models for interactive 3D games and broadcast animation. 3DMeNow is used to build realistic talking avatars and many multiple applications such as police art, human identification, forensic recontruction, cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy and ergonomics, but admits will find the most use in video games and video affects, web content and interactive learning.. Early adopters of 3D MeNow include LIPS Inc, Pulse Entertainment, the BBC , 3DSMaxTM, MayaTm, SoftInmageTM and most industry standard 3D authoring applications.

• The following URL are great example to use and practice a software  3D ME NOW  Pro

                     http://www.vollversion.de/bilder/936_1_full.jpg
                     http://www.worldof3d.com/tutorials/tutorial-00003-models.html
                     http://www.donblaauw.nl/
                     http://digilander.libero.it/brunosassi/
                     http://home.wanadoo.nl/karg/home_doel.htm
                     http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~petermor/ 

• 3DMeNow now including two version 3DMeNow Pro v1 and 3DMeNow Pro v2 build with small file then that is easily download with highest quality and lowest band-wide *.wav   sound. 3DMeNow is simply build your model from photos or art and then automatically output up to 56 high quality morphs for facial animation and full lip-synch. 

• Animation : Animation with 3DMeNow™ v1.5 is incredibly easy - and amazingly powerful. Build-up complex animations from a palette of 35 available actions, simply by dragging them onto the timeline. With automatic lip-synch, as well as automatic idling animation - anyone, beginner or professional, can quickly assemble a realistic and expressive animation sequence appropriate to the speech.

• Actions : With actions you can make your models act in virtually any way you want: actions include whole- face emotions (happy, sad, angry etc) as well as part- face expressions (smile, frown, squint etc); looks (eyes and whole head rotations) and crazy morphs. Fine-tune actions on the timeline to create incredibly realistic, as well as hilarious animations of all kinds.

• Sound : Record your speech (or anyone else's!) directly into 3DMeNow™ v1.5 - or load any *.wav file for instant, automatic animation. Edit and optimize the audio for efficient web distribution. Apply effects to change the way your voice sounds for serious, and comic effects.

• Export : 3DMeNow™ v1.5 exports scalable *.bio files for web, presentations and emails: you can ouput models at high, medium and low detail as well as choose audio and image output resolution.

• Glasses : Spectacles can be fitted to a model at any point in your project: choose from 15 available styles, select your frame colour, lens colour and transparency - and fine-tune into position.

• Hair : You can model hair in two ways with 3DMeNow™ v1.5 - use the traditional method of drawing-out the perimeters, or choose from one of 60 prebuilt hairstyles as well as ponytails using the new integrated hair modeling wizard.

• Key Features: 

  • New enhanced base models including head, bust and torso
  • Enhanced morph targets
  • Enhanced modeling and texture-mapping
  • Export formats:*.3ds/ *.lwo/ *.vrml/ *.X/ *.xsi/ *.stl/ *.obj/ *.RAW/ *.lwo/ *.bio
  • Realtime output with new audio compression for amazingly low-bandwidth interactive content
  • Full Screen Video file output
  • Batch morph target export

• URL: http://www.worldof3d.com/tutorials/intermediate/ntroduction_to_3dmenow_lite/default.asp

• Software information:                   http://products.datamation.com/development/rich_media/979127588.html

• Commercial News Article :           http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/bit_blasts/20001011/index2.htm

• Product Article:                            http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814472214_vpeople.htm

• Resource :                                    http://www.wave-report.com/2002_Wave_Issues/wave0211.htm#rage

• 3D model resource:                      http://www.3dcgi.com/cooltech/modeling/image-modeling.htm

• Development Research Software: http://www.stanford.edu/~bailenso/papers/jfi.pdf

• Software information:                   http://www.maxvista.com/3dmemow.htm