Fast, Accurate, Easy Animation

Developer of 3D rendering technology Bunkspeed (www.bunkspeed.com; Los Angeles, CA) has developed an animation tool, HyperMove, that’s said to combine speed with ease of use. The company claims that users with “little or no 3D experience” can create complex animations in just a “matter of minutes. “Many of our design customers are rendering product images and want to see things move and operate,” explains Philip Lunn, CEO of Bunkspeed. “Usually their requirements are quite simple: show a cell phone opening and closing, for instance. The current offering of animation tools, while sophisticated enough to create Oscar-winning special effects, are entirely too complex for casual users who demand more immediate results.”

HyperMove accepts models from a wide range of common 3D CAD modelers such as Rhinoceros, SolidWorks, Google SketchUp, and Pro/ENGINEER and exports to a variety of industry-standard movie formats. Using the same technology as in Bunkspeed’s rendering tool, HyperShot, users can view and alter their model. Users can then set a few simple animation parameters, and with a simple click, they have a movie. Shifting the camera or model position is no problem, and these can even be changed while the animation is playing. Before settling on the final cut, users can preview the animations in real time—with near ray-trace quality. Once a composition is finished, HyperMove generates a crisp, film-quality animation.