ElectricImage Animation System v5.5

PLATFORMS, PRICES, AND SUPPLIER/CREATOR:
- Platforms:
  - Windows 2000/XP
  - Mac OS 9
  - Mac OS X
- Price:
  - $895.00
  - $299.00 for Upgrade from v5.0 to v5.5
  - $499.00 for Upgrade from v1.x/2.x/3.x/4.x to v5.5
  - Student Version: $329.95
- Company:
  - EI Technology Group, LLC http://www.eitechnologygroup.com
APPLICATIONS:
- Formerly known as ElectricImage 3D Universe, ElectricImage Animation System is a 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool that offer a thoroughly modern user interface and a powerful new high-speed rendering engine, capable of everything from ray traced reflections and refractions to volumetric shadows. ElectricImage Animation System has been used in many different kinds of industries such as film industry, architects and engineers, as well as product designers and illustrators.
FUNCTIONS:
- Modeling
  - Objects: NURBS, Bezier, spline, polyline, rectangle, circle, ellipse.
  - Transformation: translation, rotation, scaling, cloning, mirror, copy, twist, bulge, bend, spacing, and move.
  - Editing: face, polygon, curves, skinning, losting, knife, nurbs surfaces, booleans, and lofting.
- Rendering
  - Cameras: roll control, rotoscope layers, projection map, focal length, field of view, focal mode, depth of field, zoom, focus distance.
  - Lights: point lights, parallel lights, spot lights, tube lights, ambient lights,shadow, phong, gouraud.
  - Materials: blend, shadow, depth buffer, raytrace, smoothing, phong, wireframe, flat gouraud, fog, point, texture mapping, procedural maps, raytraced maps, reflection, volume shadows.
  - Before and after rendering: antialiasing, multi-frame blur, motion blur, polygons rendering, fog, motion vector blur noise, environment maps, resolution, aspect ratio, color depth.
- Animation
  - Control: Animating is fast and interactive, using direct manipulation or flexible temporal, keyframe, key-index, drop frame, procedural shaders, system, and frame project views.
  - Advanced animations: Powerful higher level animation provides for inverse kinematics, function curve editing, Bones, morphing, smart deformations, particle systems, vibration systems, character animation, motion blur and importation of motion capture data.
- File formats
  - Importing file formats: EPS, IGES
  - Exporting file formats: IGES
  - Image file formats: IMAGE, Quicktime, PICT.
- Caustics.
- Built-in scripting tool.
- HRDI support.
- Deformation tools.
- Radiosity.
- Multi-Processor Support.
- Match Move.
- Material Library System
- Macromedia Shockwave Support.
- Network Rendering.
- Global Illumination.
- Camera now renders to the .vfx file format
- Fixed Camera out of memory problems on Mac (caustics)
- Fixed Camera out of memory problems on Win
- Fixed Animator crashes when Texture info window is opened for any of the .vfx special proxy files.
- Transporter now opens Architrion files
- Transporter can now always handle processing 2 files in a row
- Mac projects that use Mr. Nitro II can now be opened on Win
- Radiosity app now installing properly in PC installer
- Collect Project now collects gels
- Splash screen for Transporter now gives proper attribution
- Marquee selection in Animator Project window now working properly
EXAMPLES/SAMPLES:
- Characters: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_characters.html
- Architecture: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_architecture.html
- Industrial Design: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_ind_design.html
- Art: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_print_art.html
- TV and Film: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_tv_film.html
- Illumination: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_illumination.html
- Miscellaneous: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_miscellaneous.html
- SpaceBird: http://mfdh.ca/spacebird/faq.html
- Animation: http://www.berryvideoproductions.com/Animations.htm
CONTACT INFORMATION:
- ElectricImage Animation System support: support@eitechnologygroup.com
- Office Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CT) Monday through Friday.
- Phone: 1-830-438-4955
- Mailing Address:
WEB RESOURCES:
- ElectricImage Download (Mac): http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/vt3/10080&mode=info
- ElectricImage Download (Windows): http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/17049
- ElectricImage Download (Student Version): http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=716045
- ElectricImage Update: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/support/updates.html
- Online Manuals: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/support/manuals.html
- Utilities and Extra Software: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/support/utilities.html
- Tutorials: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/tutorials.html
- Forum: http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/phpBB2/index.php
- ElectricImage Review: http://www.rendernode.com/articles.php?articleId=217