This application reinvents character modeling to make it natural, productive and to let you sign your own creations
The days of spending hours creating characters from scratch, polygon by polygon, in overly complex programs are over! With Quidam you can make your own character models.
Designed for independent artists as well as production studios, Quidam is an extremely productive 3D character creation application and offers perfect professional results.
Combination
Compose your character with the many anatomical parts and props available. Add the props you like or import your own objects directly to place them on the skeleton.
Sculpture
Quidam’s Sculpture Studio offers a complete set of original, powerful and natural sculpting tools to let you knead and put the finishing touches to your character. With Quidam, it’s you who signs your character, not the software!
Posing
Thanks to a direct manipulation system, give your character an attitude in a few clicks.
Save and stock your favorite poses or use predefined ones.
Rendering
Your character is ready for the picture…
In a blink, Quidam produces a high quality image for printing and editing in retouching software.
Export
Thanks to additional plug-ins, export directly your ready-to-be-animated creation (equipped with its textures, UV, bones and skinning) into Maya, 3DS Max, LightWave, Cinema 4D, Carrara... Multi resolution, your characters can be exported at the resolution of your choice.
Do you think that it is normal to spend several months learning a program?
Uncluttered interface, intuitive navigation... ergonomics is in the heart of Quidam’s philosophy.
You will be able to come to grips with the software and create your first character in less than an hour. Forget about the technical constraints and boring panels of overly complex programs; everything has been done in Quidam to let you express your artistic talent.
Professional users will enjoy driving Quidam full screen with keyboard shortcuts.
The days of spending hours putting polygons together are over!
In a few minutes, make the character you have imagined. Quidam doesn’t offer basic fixed models, but dynamic bases, each including a multitude of anatomical parts, props, clothes, textures… to let you create billions of characters.
Quidam is powered by an advanced 3D real-time engine which makes the most of the OpenGL potential and last graphic cards, but also stays compatible with older configurations.
Quidam offers advanced sculpture and painting tools to customize your creations to the last detail. Its innovative tools invite you to give your personal touch to your creation. At last, it's you who creates your character and not the software!
As Quidam is compatible with
all the 3D professional solutions, you can retouch or animate your characters in your favorite software.
Either you are making your first steps in the 3D world or you are an experienced professional in modeling, QUIDAM is the ideal solution to produce quickly various high-quality, optimized and original characters.
Here are some key features of "Quidam":
· Visualization, navigation and editing in real time 3D
· Immersive interface or full screen mode (without icons/interface)
· Editing with symmetry option is always available
· Totally intuitive unfolding control panels for lighting, axis constraints and 3D views
· Props Manipulator
Models Packs
· Dynamic data bases able to generate from thousands to billions unique multiresolution 3D characters each:
· Realistic: male base and female base
· Heads: male head and female head (articulated or not)
· Semi-realistic, Manga: male base and female base
· Semi-realistic, Fantasy and Sci-Fi: warrior
· Misc: little monsters and original creatures
· .QUI Bank: extended library of unique characters generated from the available Models Packs, regularly enriched and can stock user custom models
· Models Pack Pro – Additional bases: girl base and boy base
OpenGL realtime render
· Display options (wire frame, faces, smoothed)
· Advanced cartoon rendering: color countour settings, number of tint areas settings
· Environmental mapping
· Background image
· Real time bump-mapping (Normals mapping)
· Cast shadows
· Reference image mode: import six images behind model
Combination studio
· Combining anatomical elements of model
· Adding clothing and accessories
· Function "random mix"
· Detailed eyes: eyes divided into 3 parts (sclera, iris and cornea) for more realism
· Custom Props: import your personal accessories on your characters
Proportion studio
· Automatic adjustments of body and head proportions by presets on grid
· Real time editing of proportions of all elements direct on the character
Sculpture studio
· Move, rotate, scale and blur/sharpen
· Symmetry mode available for all tools
· Brushes for smooth selection, with intuitive brush editor and presets
· Large choice of selection modes (one by one, select by frame, etc.)
· Selection filters (point, edge, face)
· Editing along Normals, axis constraints or in the camera plane
· Select through (to include geometric elements not visible)
· Natural and direct sculpting tools ("Jelly Brushes"): model as if you were drawing!
Pose studio
· Presets for poses for body and hands
· Direct manipulation on 3D character's skeleton
· Reset of character to ground
· Custom Poses: creation of personal poses libraries reusable later on characters
· Rotation system for eyes
· Automatic transfer of the Character Skinning to the Custom Props (personal imported object)
· Skinning edition ("Weight Paint") for all objects
· "Advanced Skinning" palette and "Autoskin" feature to automatically compute the character skinning weights
· "Smooth Weights" to mix the skinning weights on tricky areas
· Advanced Skeleton Edition: preset skeletons catalog, precise tuning for neutral pose and joints
Texture studio
· Settings for material and texture of objects
· Settings for quality of skin (speckles, wrinkles, hair, etc.)
· Application of custom textures, images and bumps
· Real time editing of textures directly on the character
· High resolution textures for the bases Woman and Man
· Environment reflection ("envmap")
· 3D Paint: a complete drawing tool palette to paint directly on the 3D models. All the channels: color, texture, transparency, emboss. Interactive brush settings, preset brushes catalog. A lot of available options.
· Advanced material settings for the Raytracing Renderer
Render studio
· Any resolution
· High quality render
· Antialiasing
· Multi-channel exports (character, shadow, mask, etc.)
· Raytracing renderer
· Advanced light settings for the Raytracing Renderer
3D Import
· Visualization and retouching models in OBJ format by simple drag and drop
· QDM Import
· Advanced symmetry detection for files with symmetry precision problems. Symmetry detection threshold tuning
3D Export
· Basic format (only geometry): OBJ
· Format with skeleton and skinning for animation: LWO/LWS (Lightwave), QDM (proprietary format N-Sided)
· QDM import plug-ins available for 3DS MAX, Maya, Cinema 4D and Carrara
· COLLADA export plug-in
· Export UV maps (vectorial or bitmap format)
· Model size adjustment during export
Requirements:
· Pentium 2 processor, 500 MHz or more (1 GHz recommended)
· 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
· 400 MB free disk space
· Monitor with 1024x768 resolution or more
· 24-bits Graphic card (or 32 bits) OpenGL compatible
· 3 button mouse
· Internet connection to access additional content online
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· No 3D export
· Watermarked background and textures
· Rendered images size limited to viewport
· Skeleton editing mode unavailable
· Limited content
· No access to free online content
· Nag screen
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Quidam 2.0.2
