Animation:Master

<h2 id="version-history">Version history</h2>
Animation:Master is the successor program to Martin Hash's Animation:Apprentice (1987) and Animation:Journeyman (1990)
Version 1 (1992) was marketed as "Will Vinton's Playmation" in conjunction with the Will Vinton Studio. The Mac version was released in 1993.
Version 2 (1993) was released as Martin Hash's 3D Animation. The pro version was named Animation:Master.
Version 3 (1994) introduced full 3D inverse kinematics (IK).
Version 4 (1996) added particle effects known as "blobbies". This was the last version to use ".seg" as its primary model format. This was the last version made available in a Unix port. Future versions would be available for Macintosh and Windows.
Version 5 (1997) was a major advance, removing the requirement in previous versions that characters be broken into parts and reassembled in the boning process. It also added numerous skeleton "constraints" which enabled the development of advanced character animation rigs.
Version 9 (2001) Scripting, Expressions
Version 10 (2003) Soft-body Dynamics, Radiosity
Version 11 (2004) SDK (enables 3rd party plug-ins).
Version 12 (2005) Cloth, Layered Rendering into <a href="/facts/OpenEXR/Qrr9TgYb">OpenEXR</a> image format.
Version 13 (2006) Hair, Rigid-body Dynamics, File formats now <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> based.
Version 14 (2007) Ambient Occlusion (AO), Image-based Lighting (IBL)
Version 15 (2008) Liquids, Baked Materials, Hash Animation:Master Realtime (HA:MR) integration
Version 16 (2011) 64-bit Version, Netrenderer-integration with Multicore-support, 3d connexion device support, OBJ-MDD-Animation-Export, overall performance-boost
Version 17 (2012) Snap to Surface, Animation:Master Answers, SSE4 instruction support, Create your own "Support"-page, deactivated Animate-Mode indicator <a href="http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=41426&view=findpost&p=366925">[1]</a>, Hi-res Simulation <a href="http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=41513&st=0">[2]</a>
Version 18 (2013/2014) Screen Space Ambient Occlusion render setting, OpenGL3 (and higher), Windows 32bit Direct3D realtime driver removed, GPU-post effects and native support for SAO, Polygon export with additional high subdivision level (up to 4096) especially suited for 3d printing, Polygon mode (OpenGL3 only), GPU Postprocess effects <a href="http://wiki.hash.com/index.php/A:M_History#V18">[3]</a>
Version 19 (2017) Save before rendering, bullet physics,

<h2 id="sources">Sources</h2>
<ul><li>"Martin Hash's 3D Animation V Reference Manual" ©1997 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li>"Martin Hash's Animation:Master Reference Guide Revision 98" ©1998 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li>"Animation:Master '98 Manual Addendum" ©1998 Hash Inc.</li>
<li>"Martin Hash's Animation:Master Reference Guide" ©2000 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li>"Animation:Master Technical Reference" online documentation for Animation:Master v11.1 ©2003 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li>"Animation:Master Technical Reference" online documentation for Animation:Master v12.0 ©2004 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li>"Animation:Master Technical Reference" online documentation for Animation:Master v13.0 ©2005 Hash, Inc.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hash.com/manuals-24-en">"Technical Reference Martin Hash's Animation:Master" ©2008 Martin D. Hash</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hash.com/manuals-24-en">"The Art of Animation:Master" ©2008 Martin D. Hash</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.hash.com">Hash, Inc. website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hash.com/am-films-hall-of-fame-36-en">Hall of Fame</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hash.com/forums">Animation:Master User Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014940/http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32109">Creative Mac review, May 25, 2005</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070806012657/http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1586">AWN Review, December 20, 2002</a></li></ul>

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