In early 2005, Normality started out as a set of simple plug-ins for Adobe After Effects and has since evolved in to our stand-alone re-lighting solution. It works in near real-time but at the same time includes features usually reserved for high-end 3D renderers.

Normality allows our artists to light 3D objects and scenes within a simplified 3D environment in near real-time, by not relying on processor intensive 3D data to calculate the results. Normality instead requires rendered normal- and depth passes from our 3D renderers - unlike full shading and lighting, these are extremely quick to render.

Normality's new stand-alone GUI

Our latest builds of Normality include support for

• Diffuse Light
• Specular Highlights
• Reflections and environment mapping
• Refractions
• Image-based Illumination (IBI)
• Bump/Normal Mapping
• Rim-lights
• Approximated sub-surface scattering
• Toon shading via Celulight
• Generation of approximated ambient occlusion if we don't have time to render a proper occlusion pass
• Support for ambient, point, parallel and spot light-sources.
• OpenGL hardware acceleration

An older but free version of Normality is available as a plug-in for After Effects at minning.de