From the legacy of Life Forms animation software, Credo Interactive presents the first choreography software designed with dance teachers and choreographers. DanceForms 2 inspires you to visualize and chronicle dance steps or entire routines in an easy-to-use 3D environment. For choreography, interdisciplinary arts and dance technology applications.
Let DanceForms bring your creativity to life:
Sketch out your choreographic ideas using an assortment of poseable dance figures.
Save time by mixing, matching, and blending sequences from DanceForms' existing libraries and palettes of dance movement.
Animate single figures, or large groups.
Use the many innovative features to bring your dance ideas to three dimensional life.
The newly updated interface has dance-friendly terminology and familiar concepts to help you get animating fast. Use the Studio window to pose your character. Play back the results in the Stage. Chronicle the details of the motion step by step in the Score window. And finally, see the finished product with colors, textures and even music in the Performance window.
DanceForms is the ideal tool for teaching and relaying choreography. Based on time-honoured Life Forms Dance software, it is available for Mac or Windows and exports to several 3D file formats.
Features
1.Optimized Dance Default Figures
Modern Dance and Ballet default figures developed in consultation with the Dance Notation Bureau.
2.Mirror
Allows you to create a mirrored image of your character's dance and then allows you to make that figure move in a sequence reflected along either the X, Y, or Z axis.
3.Snap
Works like artificial friction and can be used to attach one figure to another. Great for ballroom dancing, or to eliminate problems like sliding feet.
4.AnimationViewer
A free downloadable program that lets anyone view your creations, even if they don't have DanceForms. Can be used offline on your computer or on the web.
Included in DanceForms 2
Rhonda Ryman's Ballet Moves II
All English ballet sequences from the first edition have been updated with new dance figures and metronome beats. Ballet Moves II features brand-new content, including a complete Russian Dance library and selected palettes & motions from the Italian school.
Modern Dance moves
A library of Modern Dance content.
And in addition:
Windows 7 compatible and new body models.
DanceForms Practical Guide
Complementing the Modern Dance and Ballet Moves content collections, the tutorial-based Practical Guide offers a hands-on approach to learning the program with step-by-step exercises.
New dance-friendly terminology
Includes the Score, Studio and Performance Windows, and Stage Left, Stage Right, Audience and Backstage views.
Metronome sound feature
Lets you add a choice of metronome beat sounds to your animations.
Sound integration
Lets you play back MIDI, MP3 or AIFF music along with your animations.