MakeHuman v0.8 Pre-Alpa Demo Released

The MakeHuman Project, the development team for MakeHuman, a free 3D humanoid character modeling program, announced the release, today, of MakeHuman v0.8, a pre-alpha demo. MakeHuman is an open-source, stand-alone, software program, that is being developed to create and pose an acceptably photo realistic 3D humanoid, complete with hair, accessories and high quality UV maps, and thereby save modelers and artists hours of work.

(PRWEB) November 6, 2005 -- The demo, along with the quick-start guide, will take the user through the creation of a humanoid; and then, rendering using either the Aqsis or Pixie rendering engine, which are both free and open source, as well. The purpose of the demo, according to Manuel Bastioni, project administrator, “is to demonstrate the great progress our team has made toward meeting the goals outlined in our project abstract; and to reward, and satisfy the curiosity of, our relatively large numbers of long-time fans – and gain some new ones, of course.”

Although characters cannot be saved in this version, the user will be able to adjust, in real-time, nearly 800 individual parametric morph targets; some of which include horns, fins, major muscle groups and facial expressions. According to the release notes, the program's memory and CPU usage is very low. This version is only compatible with Windows(c) operating systems.

A beta test version is scheduled for November 20, 2005, and a stable release is planned for late February, 2006.

For additional information:

MakeHuman:
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=150931&package_id=166784
Release Notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=368073
Quick-Start Guide (pdf) : http://www.dedalo-3d.com/public/dev/articles/05_11_03_Pre-Alpha_Quick-Start_Guide.pdf
Quick-Start Guide (txt) : http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=30557&group_id=150931
Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=150931&atid=779292
Screenshots: http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php?filename=SXCOL/makehuman/screenshots.php
Project
Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/makehuman/
Project Home Site: www.makehuman.org
MakeHuman Project Abstract: http://www.dedalo-3d.com/lab/mh-abstract.pdf
Aqsis: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqsis/
Pixie: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pixie/

In the United States, please follow-up with:

Robert A. Warren
News, Publicity and Documentation
Team Coordinator
(843) 225-2214

The MakeHuman Project is the development team for MakeHuman(cc), a free, open source, 3D modeling software program licensed under the GNU General Public License, v.2.

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