Di-O-Matic

Name

Di-O-Matic

Legal name

Di-O-Matic, Inc.

Website

https://di-o-matic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

3D Character Animation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

Keywords

• Character animation software
• 3D animation plugins
• Facial animation tools
• Lip synchronization software
• Morph target creation

Headquarters

HQ city

Montreal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Perpetual Software Licenses: One-time purchase perpetual licenses for plugins and software. All Di-O-Matic products come with 12 months complimentary Premium support package. Licenses can be authorized for specific machines.
2. Support Package Renewals: Annual support package renewals including Basic (free), Premium ($49/year), Premium+ ($99/year), and VIP ($299/year). VIP includes exclusive tools like vomBatch and Pose-O-Matic.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Di-O-Matic develops and sells character animation software plug-ins and standalone applications for 3D artists, animators, and production studios working in Autodesk 3ds max, Maya, and Softimage. Core offerings include Morph-O-Matic (advanced morphing modifier with unlimited channels and progressive morphing), Voice-O-Matic (automated phonetic lip synchronization), Facial Studio (3D head modeling and deformation suite), Hercules (muscle simulation), and Morph ToolKit (morph target creation tools), sold as perpetual licenses with optional tiered support subscriptions.

Product overview

Di-O-Matic is an independent software development company (based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2000) specializing in character animation software and plug-ins for 3D artists and production studios. The product portfolio is organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture centered around Morph-O-Matic (the award-winning core morphing modifier for 3ds max) and Voice-O-Matic (the automated lip synchronization plugin available for 3ds max, Maya, and Softimage). Supporting products include Morph ToolKit (morph target creation tools), Facial Studio (in three variants: 3ds max plugin, Windows standalone, and Essential), Hercules (muscle deformation plugin), Cluster-O-Matic (advanced selection modifier), Pose-O-Matic (bones-to-morph bridge for Morph-O-Matic), and vomBatch (batch lip-sync processor). The company also offers bundled packages (Character Pack, Lipsync Pack, Morph Pack, Muscles Pack) combining multiple products at discounted pricing, along with support packages (Basic, Premium, Premium+, VIP) providing escalating levels of technical support, updates, and exclusive VIP tools. Products target the film, television, video game, and advertising industries and are used by major studios including Activision, Disney, Blur Studio, and Rockstar Games.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Morph-O-Matic Award-winning production-proven alternate morpher modifier plug-in for Autodesk 3ds max. Provides advanced morphing capabilities including unlimited morph channels (vs. 100 in built-in Morpher), progressive morphing with cubic spline interpolation, soft-selection support, view-dependent morphing, and game engine export via proprietary .mom file format. Used by leading studios for facial animation of iconic CG characters.
• Voice-O-Matic Automated lip synchronization plug-in that uses an intelligent phonetic engine to break down audio files and assign correct phonemes for facial animation. Available for 3ds max, Maya, and Softimage (XSI). Supports multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, and German. Generates timing and lip position data for CG character facial animations.
• Morph ToolKit Collection of tools for 3ds max designed to enhance and accelerate morph target creation. Includes Attach-O-Matic (attach objects while maintaining modifier stack access), Copy-O-Matic (copy/mirror vertex selections and positions), and Link-O-Matic (link objects to vertices of other objects). Reduces morph target creation time by up to 45%.
• Facial Studio (3ds max Edition) Comprehensive 3ds max plug-in suite for creating 3D heads and facial animations. Features more than 500 controls covering the entire head creation process including eyes, nose, mouth, head shape, teeth, and tongue. Includes 500+ deformations, muscle-based deformations, skin shader with subsurface scattering, texture libraries, and FBX/OBJ export capabilities.
• Facial Studio (Windows Edition) Standalone Windows application for creating 3D heads with facial animation capabilities. Features PhotoMatching technology to reproduce heads from photos, multiple LOD levels, and exports to all major 3D applications via FBX format.
• Facial Studio Essential Entry-level 3D head modeling software for Windows. Creates realistic, caricatured, or cartoon heads with PhotoMatching technology that can reproduce heads from photos in less than 10 minutes. Exports to major 3D applications including 3ds max, Maya, Cinema4D, LightWave via FBX.
• Hercules Innovative muscular animation plug-in for 3ds max that creates high-quality muscle animation for CG characters. Works with all skinning modifiers (Skin, Physique, Bones Pro). Features parametric muscle primitives, secondary motion dynamics (spring-based), ultra-fast skin displacement deformer, and compatibility with CAT, Biped, and Puppetshop.
• Cluster-O-Matic Powerful selection modifier for 3ds max that enables advanced soft-selections and vertex cluster operations. Features anisotropic soft-selection (non-spherical radius), fade selection values, arithmetic operations on clusters, unlimited linked xforms, and integration with the Hercules deformation modifier.
• Pose-O-Matic Plug-in for Morph-O-Matic that enables predefined pose animation for bones-based facial rigs. Allows animators to use morph-like interface to control bone position-rotation-scale. Combines morph targets with bones-based facial rigs for game engine compatible facial animation. VIP membership required.
• vomBatch Batch processing extension for Voice-O-Matic that automates lip synchronization for thousands of audio files without user interaction. Available for 3ds max, Maya, and Softimage. Only available to active Di-O-Matic VIP members. Requires separate Voice-O-Matic license.
• Bulge-O-Matic Advanced spherify modifier for 3ds max that projects object vertices onto a sphere. Allows spherify operations on objects and sub-object selections with negative effects and per-axis deformations. Free plug-in compatible with 3ds max 3 through 2014.
• LipSync MX Basic Windows software for lip synchronization priced at $99, providing entry-level automated lip-sync capabilities outside the Voice-O-Matic plug-in ecosystem.
• Maskarad Windows software for facial animation and lip sync. Announced February 2011 with immediate availability, including a Maskarad Batch version for high-volume processing.
• Character Pack Comprehensive all-in-one bundle of 3ds max plug-ins including Cluster-O-Matic, Facial Studio, Hercules, Morph-O-Matic, Morph ToolKit, Voice-O-Matic, and 1 year VIP support. Includes floating licenses and unlimited rendering nodes.
• Lipsync Pack 3ds max plug-ins bundle for lip synchronization including Morph-O-Matic, Voice-O-Matic, vomBatch, and Pose-O-Matic plus 1 year VIP support package.
• Morph Pack 3ds max plug-ins bundle for morphing workflows including Morph-O-Matic, Pose-O-Matic, and Morph ToolKit.
• Muscles Pack 3ds max plug-ins bundle for muscle deformations and skinning including Cluster-O-Matic, Hercules, BonesPro (partner product), and VIP support.
• ALPServer License server system for managing Di-O-Matic floating licenses across studio networks. Part of the authorization and licensing infrastructure, enabling flexible deployment of plug-in licenses to multiple artists in production environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Morph target creation time reduced by 40-45% using Morph ToolKit
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Autodesk Exchange StoreminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDi-O-Matic plugins like Bulge-O-Matic are distributed through the Autodesk Exchange Store, making them easily accessible to the 3ds max user community directly within the software's plugin marketplace.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Reallusion: Reallusion makes iClone, Character Creator, and CrazyTalk—character animation and lip-sync tools targeting the same 3D animator persona and indie-to-mid-market studios that Di-O-Matic serves. Overlapping value proposition in facial/body animation and morph-based rigging.
• Speech Graphics: Speech Graphics builds automated facial animation and lip-sync technology driven by audio analysis, the closest direct competitor to Voice-O-Matic. Both target game and film pipelines with phonetic/AI-driven mouth movement generation.
• Cubic Motion: Cubic Motion specializes in real-time facial performance capture and animation for games and film, comparable to Di-O-Matic's facial animation and lip-sync focus. Both serve AAA production pipelines requiring high-fidelity CG character performance.
• NaturalMotion: NaturalMotion builds animation and physics simulation tools (e.g., Morpheme, Euphoria) for character behavior in games, comparable to Di-O-Matic's character animation and muscle deformation focus. Both target high-end game development pipelines.

Broad incumbents

• Adobe (Character Animator / Mixamo): Adobe offers Character Animator (live-performance 2D/3D puppet animation) and Mixamo (auto-rigging/animation) within Creative Cloud. Larger, subscription-backed competitor in the character animation tools category overlapping with Di-O-Matic's morph and lip-sync workflows.
• Autodesk (3ds Max / Maya): Autodesk owns 3ds Max (with built-in Morpher modifier) and Maya (with blend shapes), the host platforms for Di-O-Matic's plugins. Acts both as a critical channel partner (via Autodesk Exchange Store) and a competitive incumbent that could expand native animation capabilities.
• MAXON (Cinema 4D): MAXON develops Cinema 4D, a 3D modeling/animation/motion graphics platform with character and morphing features. Comparable position to Di-O-Matic's 3ds Max plugin stack but as a broader DCC vendor with subscription pricing.
• SideFX (Houdini): SideFX's Houdini is widely used in VFX-heavy game and film pipelines (including those using Di-O-Matic tools) and includes rigging/character animation capabilities. Adjacent competitor for the same professional 3D animator persona.
• Epic Games (Unreal Engine MetaHuman): Epic's Unreal Engine includes MetaHuman Creator for high-fidelity facial animation and rigging, competing with Di-O-Matic's facial/animation pipeline at the leading edge of game and virtual production studios. Cloud-delivered and well-capitalized threat to plugin-based stacks.

Emerging players

• Rad Game Tools: Rad Game Tools publishes Granny (3D animation runtime) and has historically offered lip-sync tooling for game developers. Comparable niche of specialized animation and lip-sync middleware for game pipelines.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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