3dsMax goes for Mograph too

[Bullit]

Autodesk® 3ds Max® 5 Essentials for Mograph Artists

NAB 2013 presentation:

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

And in the end, every app has mograph, crowd, nodebased everything and dx11 viewport, and you wonder why you bought a suite....

[Bullit]

http://www.andvfx.com/map-transfer/

Features list:

-Transform objects using grayscale information. (position, rotation and scale, world and local transformations).

-Use any procedural map or grayscale texture.

-Works with animated bitmaps.

-Animate objects or polygons.

-Use uv-s from the object to be animated or use uv-s from external object.

-Select how particles take uv-s information from external object (Local and Global axis searching).

-Diferent ways to create animation: Animate procedural map, from video, animate Map transfer parameters or animate the external object.

[ojo3D]

http://www.andvfx.com/map-transfer/

This guy does create some really nice plugins for Max.

[Bullit]

I think this can be done in ICE.