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Welcome to the world of Joytrol!
Joytrol?!?
Joytrol is a LightWave 3D plugin designed to give you easier control while animating.
It is a nodal based system that lets you control animation channels using 2D or 1D sliders.
Joytrol is aimed mostly at animating facial expressions using LightWave 3D's Endomorphs,
but it may also be used to animate the position, rotation, scale, etc... of objects in LightWave's Layout.
Joytrol version 1.1:
The latest version of Joytrol includes the following main new features:
- Up to about 65% speed increase
- Automatic control position: the control position updates when the mrph
value is modified (with the Graph Editor for example)
- Simpler saving and loading
System requirements:
The only requirement is to have a working and installed version of LightWave 3D [8] or later.
Price and payment
We try to keep our plugins at a low price to allow as many users as possible to benefit from our tools.
We don't want only those who need it to have the privilege of using it, but rather everyone.
The current price is $45.00.
We curently accept only payment through PayPal.
If you can't use PayPal for one reason or another, don't hesitate to contact us at:
sales@kvaalen.com.
The Authors
Joytrol was written by Samuel Kvaalen implanting ideas that he and Jonny Gorden had for animating faces in 3D.
After the release of Expresso a similar plugin but very limited, there was a huge request for other setups and types as well as a faster
setup with much more flexibility and freedom. This was the goal set out when this plugin was started.
Jonny Gorden (of zerogravity.com.au) has been a major force behind the creation of Joytrol and without him, this plugin would have probably never started.
Even if it would have seen the light of day, it would not have been as robust as it is.
With a history of over 10 years in the industry, he has recently come out with a two volume book
about cartoon character creation and animation which covers everything from concept to final product and that, of course, includes facial animation.
They are both available from the publisher WordWare Publishing as well as other big book sellers such as Amazon.com and more.
Contact
If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact us at: sales@kvaalen.com.
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