COMPANY: n-sided | URL: www.n-sided.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $239
			The days of spending hours creating characters from scratch, polygon by polygon, in overly complex programs are over! QUIDAM 2.0 reinvents character modeling to make it natural, productive and to let you customize your own creations. Features: •Combination Compose your character with the many anatomical parts and props available. Add the props you like or import your own objects directly to place them on the skeleton. •Sculpture QUIDAM’s Sculpture Studio offers a complete set of original, powerful and natural sculpting tools to let you knead and put the finishing touches to your character. With QUIDAM, it’s you who puts your personal imprint on your character, not the software! •Posing Thanks to a direct manipulation system, give your character an attitude in a few clicks. Save and archive your favorite poses or use predefined ones. •Rendering Your character is ready for its close-up! In a blink, QUIDAM produces a high quality image for printing and editing in retouching software. •Export Thanks to additional plug-ins, export directly your ready-to-be-animated creation (equipped with its textures, UV, bones and skinning) into Maya, 3DS Max, LightWave, Cinema 4D, Carrara... Multi resolution, your characters can be exported at the resolution of your choice. More Features: 3D painting QUIDAM 2 features a new complete set of artistic tools to let you paint directly onto your characters. Discover a natural way to apply colors, textures, transparency, bump or normal maps as if you were painting on a canvas. Transfer a background photo on your 3D model, use symmetry to paint faster, add wrinkles with a couple of brush strokes and you have a character with outstanding realism. Advanced Character Setup In a much improved Advanced Character Setup Mode, QUIDAM 2 introduces a new Automatic Skinning function, a key feature which will allow you to save a lot of time at setting up a character. Import an OBJ model, place a skeleton of your own or choose among those offered by QUIDAM, apply the Automatic Skinning, some brush strokes with the new Smooth Weight mode if necessary... and you are done! New photo-realistic rendering QUIDAM is now powered by a brand new very fast Ray Tracing Rendering engine. It digs into images to the finest details to give crisp and photo-realistic results. Customize lighting and shadowing, apply lighting presets on your scene, create cartoon rendering... in a snap. QUIDAM also offers a blitz scanline rendering to quickly produce previews and fine renderings. Cartoon Rendering has been significantly improved to let users explore new graphic impacts. And a bunch of new other features! -Import optimizations -Improved .QUI format -New Smart Symmetry Detection system to deal with models that are not completely symmetrical -New .QUI models -New textures -New props, hair, clothes... -Etc.