Trapcode Form for Mac creates 3D visuals
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 16, 2007 at 12:43pm
Red Giant Software has released Trapcode Form, an organic 3D shape generator that allows users to create a variety of animations, from text logos that blow away like sand to surfaces that move like rolling fire or billowing smoke. All the 3D designs in Form can also be driven by audio to create visions that move with the beat.
Trapcode Form comes with 61 customizable presets, as well as the ability to tweak them. The 61 presets are divided into five categories, including animation set to audio, flight presets that generate 3D terrain flyovers, and animations suited for lower third titles. Integration with After Effects’ 3D environment allows users to fly cameras through and around the animated forms.
Form offers built-in audio reactors where the bass beat, a tambourine hit, or a voice track can drive the motion, color, opacity, displacement, and other variables to generate visuals. The software also offers the ability to drive color, displacement, size, and more with images sourced from any layer in After Effects.
Trapcode Form costs US$199and works with After Effects 7.0/CS3 on Mac OS X and Windows. Trapcode Form is one of the plug-ins in the Trapcode Suite 2008 collection, which sells for $799. Current Trapcode Particular customers qualify for a $50 discount on Trapcode Form from now through Dec. 15.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
