CharacterWorks

Rendering Engine

Real-time, multi-core, GPU-based, UltraHD (4K), true 3D rendering engine, with smooth multi-channel NDI and Decklink output.

Supports a virtually unlimited number of 3D-transformable, keyframe-animated layers and compositions.

Text Renderer

Flexible, dynamic, high-quality anti-aliased smooth-scrolling Unicode text.Embed any animated layer within text, and integrate and format data from shared real-time data sources (Twitter, RSS, external databases and files, wall clock, counters, etc.).

Image & Video Support

A wide range of popular image and video codecs and formats, including 16-bit and floating-point images.

Full-HD video and image sequence playback. Video and image layers can be transformed in 3D and shader effects can be applied in real-time.

Shader-based Materials

Hundreds of ready-to-use material presets, ranging from basic gradients to beautiful lens flares. Procedurally-generated, real-time materials for animated backgrounds that are ever changing and never repeating.

Feeling creative? Our advanced material engine lets you combine building blocks to construct complex shaders without writing a single line of code.

Playback Control

Use the versatile quick-edit feature and playback controllers to edit, filter, play and preview multiple CG elements in a practical and efficient manner

Interactive Editing

Edit CG elements and observe the results immediately in realtime.

In addition, the preview channel helps you try out your automation setups.

Data Source Engine

Seamlessly integrate data (text, images or even video) from outside real-time sources with no need for any external modules.

Supported sources include: Twitter, XML/JSON through XQuery (incl. RSS, Google Spreadsheets, StatCrew) and external databases through ODBC / SQL (incl. MySQL, Access, Excel), scoreboards and timing solutions (incl. Daktronics, FinishLynx).

User Interface

Functional, yet attractive. Intuitive, drag’n-drop-based, ultra-responsive.

Fully-customizable layout, dockable/tearable windows, easily adaptable to multi-monitor setups.

Jump-Start Production

Use, modify and adapt the provided templates to quickly start production.

In addition, export your own templates to reuse them in future productions.