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Amazon Paint
Amazon 3D Paint
Multi Layer Painting
Paint Directly On 3D Surfaces
Transparency, alpha channel, and multiple layer
Amazon lets you import 3D models from all
High Quality High Definition
support let you work on complex images quickly
major high-end animation systems and apply
Amazon lets you switch between 8 and 16 bits
by building up layers of image elements. Multi-
brushand image processing effects directly on
per channel painting on the fly, making Sweet 16
layer cloning, paint-through, and filter brushes
the geometry. See your results in real-time
great for Film as well as Video designers.
for complex collage and composite effects.
using advanced OpenGL rendering. Amazon also
Image Processing
lets you display your unwrapped 3D geometry
Over 50 image processing effects, plus plug-in
as a wireframe overlay on the 2D paint canvas.
support for writing your own. Live preview and
Manipulate Texture UV Coordinates
optimized code bring you true "interactive effects".
Amazon's polygon texture UV editor lets you
Scriptability
apply projections as well as hand edit the
Design custom tools and animation scripts quickly
Amazon Sweet 16
16 Bit Paint for Film
See All 64 Bits While You Work
Powerful display functions like active dithering
and display LUT adjustment take the guesswork
out of doing film work on 24-bit displays.
Clients
UV coordinates on models.
P i x a r • D i s n e y • Ti m e W a r n e r
and painlessly. Every brush, image processing
Complex Models and Multiple Texture Maps
Dreamworks/SKG • Digital Domain
function and file operation can be controlled from
With 3D Paint you can load any number
Electronic Arts • Cinesite
a script. Power when you need it.
of 3D models and assign separate texture maps
Psygnosis • Pacific Data Images
to each model. Paint across the seams between
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two models with color or texture. Smudging
S o n y P i c t u r e s I m a g e Wo r k s • C a p c o m
between models picks up on one texture map
A c c l a i m • Ti p p e t t S t u d i o s • L u c a s A r t s
and continues to the next.
Amazon Paint
Photographic Effects
Image Processing Tools
Drawing Tools
Over 50 image processing tools and filters •
Blur • Sharpen • Trace Edges • Emboss • Color
Polygons, Circles, Lines, Rectangles, and Splines
Powerful shape and spline-based image selection •
Balance • Channel Swapping • Convolution Kernel
plus Anti-Aliased Postscript Text using any Type 1
Iconic image browser usable with any supported
Editor with over 40 additional filter kernels •
Compatible Font. Artistic Freedom Over 20 Brush
file format • Multi-layer filter brushes for complete
Channel Matrix Arithmetic • Darkening and
Effects with customizable brushes and patterns •
control of operations such as dodge and burn •
Lightening • Thresholding • Solarization •
Intriguing twisting and swirling effects • Editable
Pressure sensitive brushes for expressive image
Contrast • Gamma Correction • User-Definable
spline-based drawing tools •Impressionistic effects
manipulation • Quality air brush with customizable
Lookup Operations.
shape and pressure controllable size, flow, and
noise range.
File Formats
Full Compositing and Color Keying
Capabilities
SGI • Maya/TDI IFF • Wavefront • Cineon • Abekas
Full Scriptability
Over, Under, Multiply, Inside, Add, Subtract,
Vertigo • PPM • Targa • JPEG • PICT • Any of the
Any Amazon effect controllable from a text-based
Tint Onto, Powerful Hue, Saturation, Value,
above compressed (.Z) or gzipped (.gz).
script • TCL/TK language interpreter • Amazon
and Luminance-based color keying for fast
extensions for development of custom interfaces.
matte building.
Brush Effects
Interactive Effects
Customizable full color Image Brushes • Sub-pixel
Multiple drawing layers composited in real-time
painting • Pattern Brushes using any full color
for low stress creation of complex drawings •
image • Air Brushes • Fractal Line Drawing •
Quantization • Interactive Image Scaling • Image
Impressionistic Multi-Buffer Drawing Brushes
Cropping • Distortion • Perspective • Arbitrary
• Tint Brush • Smudge Brush • Sharpen and Blur
Image Rotation • Mirroring • Shearing • Linear
Brush • Noise Brush • Pixelizing Brush • Lookup
and Radial Gradient Fills • Soft Fills, Tint Fills,
Effects (including darkening, gamma correction,
Pattern Fills, Noise FIlls, Fractal Patterns • Live
and contrast) • Ability to create and use soft-
preview mode shows color balance and other
edged masks • Clone Tools.
effects interactively.
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their respective holders.
Advanced 3D Capabilities
Space Control
3D Model Support
Paint in real-time directly onto the surface of 3D
Complete support for painting across multiple
Amazon 3D Paint works with models exported
models from any viewpoint • Highlight UV coordi-
models • Layer based management allows design
from Maya, Wavefront, Alias, Houdini,
nates of any polygon on the current drawing canvas
of texture, displacement, and bump maps • Real-
and Softimage.
•Use UV polygon coordinates of a model as an
time rotation/zoom/panning of 3D models in
underlay in the current drawing canvas. • Full-
wireframe, shaded, or texture-mapped modes •
featured model UV editor allows application of
Complete control over the viewer lighting model
multipleprojections onto a single model as well as
• Real-time interactive bump and displacement
provides tools for the hand editing of texture
map editing.
• TIFF • Softimage • Alias • Prisms • Houdini •
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Amazon 3D Paint
coordinates.
Amazon Sweet 16
64 Bit Paint for Film
Deep and Smooth
Required Hardware
Amazon Sweet 16 provides 16 bits of precision for
All the capabilities of Amazon Paint • Soft-switch-
Amazon Paint runs on all SGI workstations with
each of the Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha channels
able between 64 and 32 bit while you work • Active
IRIX 6.5 or later, and now Intel and AMD x86
for a total of 64 bits per pixel. With Sweet 16, you
Dithering for accurate display of 48/64 bit images
processor equipped with LInux workstations.
get all the speed and flexibility of a 32 bit system
on 24 bit monitors • Image support for 10 bit Cineon
with the added functionality of a 64 bit system
and DPX / 16 bit TIFF and SGI files.
when you need it.