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ANIMAX

ANIMAX is a procedural animation system for Blender. Useful for animating multiple objects. It allows you to create complex animations that are hard to achieve using Blender's built in animation tools.

Why ANIMAX ?

You may ask yourself: Why should i use this plugin?

The short answer is: because you can get some professional looking animations, with a very little effort, in a very short time.

The workflow is straightforward, just choose an effect (or make your own), play with the parameters and the timing, and you have your animation ready, no math or programing required.

If you are a motion graphics artist, then ANIMAX would be a great addition to your arsenal.

Features

• 15 different effects to choose from + the custom mode to create your own effects.
• Ease of use, a simple UI and a straightforward workflow.
• Tools for splitting/shattering a mesh object into pieces.
• Convert the procedural animation to keyframes.
• The animation is procedural, but it's possible to keyframe a lot of parameters for more complex animations.
• And much more…

The limitations

ANIMAX isn't an all in one solution for all your animations scenarios, because it's designed for some specific animation types, if you want a more complete tool check out  Animation nodes.

• When using ANIMAX you can animate a limited number of objects (2000 objects, with 3-5 fps in my computer), a stronger computer will not help a lot, do to the nature of Python.
• The add-on relies on a Python library "Numpy", which is bundled with the official Blender builds, but not with the daily builds.
• You can Bake (convert to keyframes) only one group of objects at a time.
• You can control only the (loc, rot, scale) of the objects.

Gratitude

A big THANK YOU to:
Jacques Lucke,  Pratik Solanki ,  Sean Kennedy