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Cryptic Animation Rig For Everybody!
Hey, high school kids! Having trouble working on the animations for your latest first person shooter video game? Anyone can map their favorite learning institution into a game level, but to create realistic animations, you need tools, and now Cryptic Studios is giving you those tools, free. In an extremely kick ass move on their part, the creators of City of Heroes and developers of the upcoming Marvel Universe Online game have released their Cryptic Animation Rig for download under the GNU General Public License. Not a demo, and not a crappy Lite version, these are the actual production tools used by the studio itself."Our goal is to foster a community of animators by providing them the power to generate animations without having to worry about supporting a toolset. Since we were already developing the rig for our core technology team, we decided to release it to the public under the GNU GPL," said Shayne Herrera, Art Development Director for Cryptic Studios. "We feel that the development and gaming communities will benefit greatly from a professional tool like the Cryptic AR."
Unbelievably cool move. Cryptic is even creating forums on the website to foster a community of animators that can support each other and exchange ideas. Cryptic AR 1.0 can be downloaded right here, right now. More »
