Amorphium
Prepared and Edited on Nov 30th, 2004

• Platforms, Prices, & Company
  • Company: EI Technology Group
  • Website: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/products/amorphium.html
  • Platforms:
    • Macintosh
    • Windows
  • Pricing:
    • Upgrade: $99.00
    • Full: $149.00 (Note: $10 discount off above prices for purchasing downloaded version)
  • System Requirements:
    • Macintosh OS 9/X:
      • Macintosh G3 233 or better
      • 128MB of RAM
      • 150MB Hard Drive Space
      • 16MB Graphics Card
    • Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP:
      • Pentium Celeron 333 or better
      • 128MB of RAM
      • 150MB Hard Drive Space
      • 16MB Graphics Card
• Applications

  Amorphium Pro provides a natural step between programs such as Adobe Photoshop and 3D graphics systems. Graphic artists can create sophisticated 3D objects or compose an entire scene in Amorphium Pro and save it as a 2D image file at any size up to film resolution. Web developers can easily create 3D logos, banners, buttons, animated GIF’s, VRML, and now FLASH animations.

  For the 3D professional, Amorphium Pro fits right in as a new application, providing a multitude of unique organic sculpting and painting tools. Amorphium Pro also solves a common problem with computer graphics—perfection. Amorphium Pro adds realistic imperfection, by importing FACT, 3DS, LWO, and OBJ formats, adding scratches, wrinkles, creases, scorch marks, dings and dents directly to the surface of an object. It also features a smoothing tool to quickly fix polygonal ‘tears’ and jaggedness of an object, which would have required a lengthy process of aligning vertices in existing wireframe 3D modelers.

• Examples/Samples
  • http://animation.about.com/library/weekly/aa032101a.htm
  • http://www.cs-net.gr/~contact7/tutorials-page.htm
  • http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=24558
  • http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=24799
  • http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25060
• Functions
  • Organic 3D Sculpting
    • Modeling: polygon-based
    • Primitives: Cylinder, sphere, block, cube, tetrahedron, text, doughnut, cone, both side plain mesh, and imported 3D object from another program.
    • 3D distortions: Rotate, Bank, Scale, Stretch, Center, Variable Undo, Noise, Smooth, Waves, Tsunami, Equalize, Contrast, Bottle, Bulge, Button, Belly, Flatten, Spikes, Shear, Bend, Radial Shear, Taper, Twist and Twirl.
    • Tools: Brush, Smudge, Spheric Brush, Normal Brush, and Smooth tools in any of twenty-six 3D shapes—all with adjustable Flux, Radius, Pressure, Symmetry, Tilt and Depth. Tools are used for distortions, 3D painting, and masking operations.
  • Rendering
    • Cameras: Can be moved up and down and rotated round the object.
    • Lights: Angle adjustable Sun Lighting.
    • Materials: Morphing, Texture mapping, HeightShop and Painting.
    • Texture mapping effects: Opacity, Lightness, Contrast, Hue Rotate, and Saturation.
    • Before and after rendering: Antialiasing, Shadows, Back picture, Fog , and Smoke.
  • Animation
    • Controllers: Procedural
    • Animation Features: Ghosting, Mirroring, duplication, pivot point, inverse kinematics, deformation, morphing, text character animation, motion blur.
  • File formats
    • Import: Amorphium 1.0, Amorphium 2.0, 3D Studio 3DS, DXF, EPS, ElectricImage FACT, Lightwave 1.0 LWO (for pre Lightwave 6.0 files), Lightwave 2.0 LWO (for Lightwave 6.0), and Wavefront OBJ.
    • Export: Amorphium 2.0, 3D Studio 3DS, CMF, Amorphium 1.0 CMF, DXF 3D-Face, DXF Polyline, ElectricImage FACT, Lightwave 1.0 LWO, Lightwave 2.0 LWO, Wavefront OBJ, VRML 1.0, VRML 2.0., and Flash SWF formats are supported.
• Web Resources
  • http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/downloads/manuals/amorphium/a_pro_manual.pdf
  • http://www.postforum.com/forums/list.php?f=12