Animazoo Opens Avatar Animation Shop for Second Life
Second Life residents can now greatly enhance their avatar’s movement and style using lifelike animations from the award winning motion capture company Animazoo. Animazoo has opened a shop inside Second Life where residents can buy carefully crafted animations created using human movement and state-of-the-art animation techniques. Animazoo animations appear much more lifelike than existing animations within Second Life, and are currently heralded as the finest available.
The Animazoo shop is located at ‘Animazoo, QA Business Park’, and can be found by searching for ‘Animazoo’ in the Search window within Second Life.
The animations on sale have been specially created to satisfy the ever increasing expectations of the Second Life community. A selection of free animations available at the shop have proved extremely popular. Aside from the free animations, prices start at L$50 (50 Linden dollars, about 8.5p), rising to L$300 (about 50p) for the best dances. The range is updated regularly, and Second Life residents also have the option of ordering custom made animations.
Animazoo Marketing Director, Jo Hull said “Animazoo motion capture systems allow people the freedom to express themselves more fully through their avatars than previously possible. How you look is important in Second Life, and our system gives the user much more scope to look and move naturally and express themselves. The shop is an ideal extension of our brand into an environment that really benefits from motion capture, enhancing the Second Life user experience.”
Animazoo animator for Second Life, Dave Wooldridge said “Considerable time and effort has been put into making Animazoo animations the smoothest, most natural animations available in Second Life. The range is under constant review, and new ideas are still under development. Second Life offers fantastic creative opportunities for animation, and many of the capabilities of the Second Life animation system (like animation layering) are still largely unexplored. Keep an eye on Animazoo for the next generation of Second Life animation techniques!”
