Digital Fish and its ex-Pixar founders believe they have developed the animation tool of the future.  From their homepage:  Reflex is the new way to do 3D animation that will benefit everyone involved in studio production. Whether you’re animating in the trenches, technically supporting a team, managing a major film or game, or teaching the artform to future animators, Reflex is the tool for you.

Incorporating such features as drawing planes, arcs/motion paths visible in 3D view, layering tools, onion skins, and more- this company believes that it has developed an animation tool for large and small productions alike.  Coupled with an open ascii file format, the software (called "Reflex") should be able to connect with most high end CG packages.  For more information, you can check out their webpage 

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh, finally!!!! : Will Christiansen Oh man, I'm an animator, let me tell you, I'll pay any price to get my hands on a set of tools like this in one package. July 18, 2006 Me Wants it : Josh Must have new software...... I wish they had a 30 trial version :( July 21, 2006 yeah, finally, this looks like it's built for character animation, almost too good to be true : zamolxes but yeah, no demo, no purchasing, no nothin' I wonder when will the soft be available to the general public... not only to the calarts happy few... July 21, 2006 FAQ : Dan Herman Hi, sorry for the lack of basic answers to "can I buy it now"-type questions. We put up a FAQ a couple days ago that should answers some of these. http://www.digitalfish.com/faq July 23, 2006

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