Over the past 8 months, we’ve been busy on some cool new toys. And next week, we’ll begin revealing these shiny new trinkets to the world.

We’ve spent our time and energy on exciting new technologies to enhance our ability to make the human connection in our digital world. These projects range from internal capabilities (to improve customer service and deliver) to new applications and tools for our customers to eventually use. Here’s a taste of what’s coming soon:

Art

Our team of artists has developed a new CodeBaby character system that allows for a wide range of shapes and sizes of characters. Our character catalogue has admittedly lacked diversity on several fronts. That being said, the new art assets will expand our options and capabilities drastically.

PLEASE NOTE: We haven’t yet expanded the official CodeBaby Character Catalog that comes with CodeBaby Studio, but now have the opportunity to do so. If you have Production Studio 3.1, we’ll push these updates to you directly via the Automatic Updater. Coming very soon to a Production Studio near you!

Animation

Our artists have also been improving our tool set to leverage the latest animation tools and techniques. Our new animations will be much more accurate, effective, and [the ultimate goal being] more emotionally engaging for the end viewer. We’re leveraging motion capture and IK (“inverse kinematics”) to bring our CodeBaby characters to life in new and dynamic ways. We’ve improved the interoperability of these existing technologies with our proprietary environment.

Product: CodeBaby Suite (Beta)

Our team of Product folks have worked so hard on a cool new SaaS web application that will allow our Web customers to create and manage CodeBaby Conversations. CodeBaby Suite (in Beta) takes the process that we’ve developed internally and allows users to do it themselves. The application features three key elements: PLAN, CREATE, and DELIVER. More on CodeBaby Suite in the next post! PLEASE NOTE: CodeBaby Suite will be available to a few Web customers January 12. Contact us for more info.

We’re proud of our team and all the hard work that’s gone into our new tools and toys. If you have any questions about these new projects, let us know.