Best 3dmax plugin to produce cutout animation.
Welcome to 3dCutout!
3dCutout is an Autodesk 3dsMax plugin for producing cutout animations. 3dCutout converts Autodesk 3dsMax to a user-friendly software with a bunch of new tools to help you create your own cutout animations. 3dCutout prepares all the tools you need to bring your 2D artwork to the 3D space. Features like Auto rig, Project Management, Animation Archive, Asset Management, Scene Management, etc. These features helps you produce big projects like TV series using minimal costs and saves you a lot of time and hassle. Learning 3dCutout is very easy and you and your team don’t need to know special technical information. Complex tasks which you confront when making big cutout projects, is simplified inside 3dCutout.
Photoshop
Content Creation ››
Our software for drawing and painting assets such as characters, objects and backgrounds is Adobe Photoshop. Categorize your Photoshop files in three main categories: Characters, Objects and Backgrounds. After you finished your work in Photoshop, Create a copy of your file and prepare it to export to the 3dCutout.
See also:
Photoshop Exporter
Character Generator
Quadruped generator
Environment Generator
Object Generators
Photoshop Exporte
We use a script to export all stuff from Photoshop to 3dCutout. This script will be installed by using 3dCutout installer. For more info about installing this script, please visit How to install page.
Before export, you must regard following sync task:
- Each layer must be a bitmap layer. So convert all vector, adjustment, text layers to a bitmap layer.
- Make sure color mode is RGB.
- Delete unused layers.
- Before export, make sure canvas is not very big. Actual pixel view in Photoshop helps you to find best size and resolution. It depends on output size or details you want to show, but recommended settings for a character is: Canvas size 4096*4096 px and resolution 100 px.
- Put all layers which you want to use as a switch targets in a group and name it properly.
- Each layer from Photoshop will be an object in 3dcutout and each group will be a group in 3dCutout.
- You can define pivot point in Photoshop. Create an empty layer and name it “Pivot”. Paint a circle in it. Location of the circle will be pivot point of underneath layer.
After you prepared file to export, go to the File menu/scripts/PSL_Exporter.
we can write it for blender.