Pixelux Entertainment SA, a Swiss company has developed a revolutionary new 3D Animation technology called Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) which provides a level of realism in animation not possible before. DMM achieves this realism through the use of a proprietary, real-time, Finite Element Method (FEM) system to simulate the physical properties of objects.

With DMM, an artist can create objects that not only look good, but that move and react to external forces as if they were real. Plants can subtly sway as they are subjected to a simulated wind, Glass can shatter into sharp shards, wood can bend and splinter, and stone walls can crumble and fall. DMM even allows the simulation of flesh to make character animation attain a completely new level of realism.

Competitively, DMM Technology differs dramatically from the Rigid Body Physics (RBP) approach used in conventional games in that it allows physically simulated objects to bend and break with a great degree of realism.

The plugin works with any recent version of Autodesk Maya and 3dsMax.