Craft Animations Aligns with RTT to Advance Real-time 3D Animation for Design and Visualization

By DE Editors

Craft Animations AB and Realtime Technology (RTT) AG have announced a strategic alliance that includes the upcoming port of Craft Director Tools to RTT DeltaGen. Users will be able to easily add realistic, natural movement to their interactive design visualizations within minutes, according to the comapnies.

"We are happy to enter this promising partnership with Craft Animations," said Ludwig A. Fuchs, co-founder and member of the RTT AG Management Board. "The cooperation is of mutual interest and benefit. We are confident that, by joining our technologies, we can utilize synergies and push forward the boundaries of the real-time visualization market."

Industrial designers use RTT DeltaGen software to develop interactive real-time 3D virtual prototypes for car and aircraft styling, design development, customer product design, and marketing. Craft Director Tools—including Craft Camera Tools, Craft Vehicles, Craft Accessories, and Craft Freeware—eliminate the prolonged animation tasks of key framing and scripting. This allows designers to condense traditional animation processes, reducing production times by as much as 90 percent, according to RTT.

Craft Director Tools for RTT DeltaGen will be available late 2009.

For more information, visit Craft Animations and Realtime Technology AG.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.