The Foundry Modo 801

MODO 801 Overview

MODO makes it easy to generate something that looks real, fast. Compelling stills and animations can be simply and intuitively tweaked and checked with MODO's instant preview to achieve the results that clients are looking for.

Creative Exploration

Fast and intuitive polygon modeling and sculpting tools that allow you more time to explore and visualize new ideas. MODO encourages creative exploration in a fast and intuitive environment, enabling artists and designers at all technical levels to imagine, realize and create products ranging from sunglasses to submarines. It's a 3D sketchbook where your ideas can thrive.

Out-of-the-box value

Highly-integrated modeling, painting, sculpting, effects, animation and unlimited network rendering capabilities. MODO provides highly-integrated modeling, painting, sculpting, effects, animation tools and unlimited network rendering capabilities. Developed with artists in mind, MODO is intuitive and easy to learn, making exploration and detailed creation fun. Its flexible, modern architecture also makes it fast, whether you're doing look development on elements in your scene, retopologizing 3D scanned models or rendering fully CG animations.

Consistency guaranteed

With a philosophy of tool re-use, easy-to-learn workflows and a fully customizable UI unmatched in any other 3D software.

Integrates seamlessly into existing pipelines

Batch processing, Python scripting, a versatile SDK, and support for Open ColorIO, OpenEXR and Alembic.

New Features in Modo 801

Animation

Built on traditional animation techniques applied in innovative ways, MODO's animation framework is highly customizable to meet the most demanding of production challenges.

Presets

Save and share parts of a process or content through MODO's powerful preset system, allowing quick access to approved assets and vastly improving team efficiency.

Rendering

MODO's production-proven rendering is a rare blend of speed and quality capable of creating stunning, incredibly high-quality imagery on par with any leading rendering solution. Network rendering is also UNLIMITED.

UVing

MODO's industry leading UV tools are tightly integrated with the modeling function making the entire process seamless.

Sculpting

A powerful combination of painting, sculpting and multi-resolution subdivision surface modeling in one application.

Rigging

Everything works with everything, MODO's node based rigging system makes managing complex rigging setups easy.

Painting

Comprehensive brush based workflows allow complete creative freedom and an incredible amount of detail.

Modeling

Engineered for speed and creativity, MODO's flexible modeling tools are ideal for both precision modeling and freeform organic tasks.

Hair and Fur

A comprehensive range of hair and fur tools allow you to apply and manipulate fur in ways that offer endless possibilities.

Collaboration & Customization

Effective collaboration between artists is vital in any production environment. MODO makes it easy to customise the UI to suit your personal workflow while supporting the many file formats you need.

Effects

Dynamics and Particle simulations are made easy with MODO's tightly integrated node based workflows. MODO has it all with rigid and soft body dynamics as well as a rule based, procedural particles.

Modo 801 System Requirements:

General

• 2 GB RAM minimum
• 2 GB available hard disk space for full content installation
• Mouse or pointing device, including pressure sensitive tablets or 3Dconnexion 3D mouse
• OpenGL 2.0 accelerated graphics, at least 1280 x 800 resolution
• Internet connection required for product activation and to access online videos

Windows

In addition to the general system requirements:

• Windows 7 and 8 (only 64-bit supported)
• Intel Xeon/Core 2 Duo, Quad/Core i7 or AMD Opteron/ Phenom processor(s). Must support SSE2 instruction set.

Mac

In addition to the general system requirements:

• Mac^® OS X 10.7 or later (only 64-bit supported)
• Intel processor(s), Core2Duo processor or higher.

Linux

In addition to the general system requirements:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or later (only 64-bit supported)
• Intel processor(s), Core2Duo processor or higher