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Elastic Reality combines photographic reality with the freedom of artist-controlled elasticity. It's contributed to hundreds of television and feature film productions and has been granted a 1996 Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
For outrageous or seamless effects, Elastic Reality will meet your creative needs.
Features:
Warping and Morphing:
Elastic Reality provides the most comprehensive warping and morphing engine for live action, CG, or print. You'll find yourself using Elastic Reality's incredible image manipulation capabilities to fix common post production problems, smooth movement on 3D rendered animations, and morph and warp still graphics to create high quality animations.
Shape-to-Shape Interface:
Other warping or morphing packages only allow
frustrating and imprecise mesh based controls. The key to Elastic Reality's power and flexibility is its unique shape-based interface.
Using intuitive drawing tools and Bezier curves users can define and edit multiple areas of an image to manipulate over time. Import Pen paths as shapes from familiar applications like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
Compositing and Matte Making:
Every shape can contribute to an unlimited number of
layers for compositing. Each matte shape can be keyframed and edited for use as traveling mattes. This speed and flexibility of matte creation has made Elastic Reality an essential compositing tool.
Color Correction:
Manipulate R, G, B, hue, saturation, lightness,
brightness, contrast and gamma values and even animate them over time. ER provides great flexibility and animated control of global and spot color correction.. With Elastic Reality you can color correct any number of shapes or groups of shapes. Select the sky in your image and slowly
animate it from day to night or blue to red! You can even make adjustments at the sub-shape level, for creating gradient changes within the sky!
Hierarchical 2D Animation and Image Transforms:
Define motion paths for your shapes to follow. Link
paths hierarchically to create sophisticated animations with powerful inheritance controls. Manipulate images in 3D - flip, shear, distort, rotate and animate using "transform" curves with automatic perspective adjustments. Break the image up using multiple shapes moving on
their own paths. Only Elastic Reality can provide this multi-shape based animation with such ease and flexibility. Animate simple still photos with pan and zoom moves and add customizable ease-in/ease-out acceleration curves for smooth motion
File Format Management:
Elastic Reality is a resolution independent application.
Use and intermix any number of supported image formats with full alpha channel support. Elastic Reality supports over 25 file formats including BMP, OMF, PCX, PICT, QuickTime, SGI, Sun Raster, TARGA, TIFF, X Window and many more!
This capability alone is a must-have-tool in today's video and graphics production where you never know where the images you need will come from.
Platforms:
Elastic Reality runs on a wide range of Silicon Graphics® workstations as well as Windows NT (Intel and DEC Alpha), Windows 95, and Mac OS/PowerPC platforms.
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