Amorphium Real Time 3-D Sculpting and Painting

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S9GB
• Item model number: 55-002
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,176 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #54 in Software > Graphics > 3-D
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Play, Inc.'s Amorphium Real-Time Digital 3D Sculpting and Painting is an easy-to-use, yet powerful 3-D rendering program for beginners and professionals alike. Amorphium lets users interactively create in three dimensions by simply sculpting an object in real time. This next-generation software means no wire frames, no polygons, no rendering. It's as easy as working with clay and a brush. When you call up a basic shape from Amorphium's Tools and Distorts menu and start playing with it, you quickly get a sense of what the tools do. You can rotate your object in real time so you'll see changes as you work.

There are 18 options for distorting your object, including twisting, twirling, stretching, bending, and more. In addition, 24 brush shapes enable you to sculpt the object in various ways. For example, you can "brush" a rough texture on all or part of the object. You can actually animate these distortions for attention-grabbing Web graphics.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for both new and experienced, January 1, 2000

By 

Honda W. Janak (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amorphium Real Time 3-D Sculpting and Painting (CD-ROM)

This is an excellent program. It takes care of the appropriate shadows and has a wide assortment of brush types. Both images and movies can be made. The price is not high for a product of this quality. I recomend it to anyone with interest in computer graphics.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun tool/toy for anyone, December 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Amorphium Real Time 3-D Sculpting and Painting (CD-ROM)

This application is geared to a large number of people. For the beginners (or those with little skill), the application has many tools to assist you. The tutorials take you step-by-step to show you just how easy it is to create 3-D graphics. The experienced users will find the ability to animate, morph, mask paint, etc anything they want.

Just a for instance, I was able to create some 3-D animation of "Mickey" that was blended into a homemade WDW video. This added that extra touch of "professionalism."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Infinite Variety of Form, May 10, 2001

By 

Nancy Ibsen (Renton, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amorphium Real Time 3-D Sculpting and Painting (CD-ROM)

Imagine a lump of modeling clay that is infinitely pushable, pullable and paintable. Then add the ability to twist or bulge, or add waves or spikes in a statisfyingly symmetrical way to the whole shape with one mouse drag.

Amorphium throws away the wire frames and gives you real time smooth 3D rendering as you shape and color. This modestly priced package is both intuitive and fun for kids and sophisticated enough for professionals to create compelling organic images. The interface lets you play and discover without reading one word of the guide, but there are a few interesting features that the guide can point you to.

What many other graphics packages let you do with painting, Amorphium lets you do with shaping. You can select different shaped objects to poke with (shaping brushes) and select the size and pressure. You can choose to poke or pull from behind to mirror what you do in front, and then rotate object in space and see what you created from any angle. You can even use a mask with shaping operations. Shaping tools will not affect masked out areas but mask edges are still nice and smooth.

Best of all, as you press, your tool goes towards the center of the object in the 3d space so you can continue to refine surfaces in any plane.

Users of Bryce will recognize the interface style. With most of the tools (other than brushes), you click and drag on the tool icon itself and watch the main image as it changes in real time. For some tools a percentage number will appear unobtrusively if you want to note numeric values for future reference. My only quibble with this style is that the interface palettes of icons are rather dark. I feel like I am indulging my computer graphics addiction in a closet.

The features include applying images from other files to your object for shape or color, morphing from one shape to another, and animating your object to create movies.

The really fast and fun tools are called "distorts", which are like Photoshop filters (but much faster). You click and drag on the "distort" name and watch the shape twist or grow spikes or waves in response to the direction and length of the mouse drag. Applying one "distort" after another gives truly infinite and beautiful variety of form.