Mirage is a powerful, creative environment for the production of 2D animation and special effects. Designed for professional studios and freelancers requiring a maximum of flexibility and productivity, Mirage combines real-time paint, animation, and special effects functionalities into a single product. A true paperless digital animation system, Mirage dramatically broadens the capabilities of traditional 2D animators, and is proven to save up to 50% in production time compared with traditional 2D pipelines.
The Next Generation of 2D Animation Tools
Mirage provides the same levels of control in the digital domain that artists are accustomed to with physical media. Mirage’s state-of-the-art 2D paint and drawing tools, combined with it’s industry-leading animation engine, drastically simply and accelerate the way artists draw, animate, and create special effects for 2D.
Working with MIrage, animators can move from initial storyboards, pencil tests, and roughs straight through to inked, colored frames, without ever resorting to physical media or changing software. Mirage also integrates seamlessly with vector-animation workflows based on such tools as Macromedia Flash™. Thanks to it’s real-time architecture, there’s no “final render” to contend with in Mirage – artists simply export their finished work to the animation or video format of their choice.
An Amazing Film & Video Solution
From Indie films to Hollywood Blockbusters, Mirage is the ultimate Post-Production tool. Combining Real-Time compositing with powerful paint and special effects, it efficiently replaces high-end proprietary systems for digital paint, animation, and special effects, while freeing visual effects artists to create anything they can imagine.
Award-Winning Broadcast Production
Combining real-time video paint, a powerful animation, and industry-leading effects tools into a single product, Mirage centralizes the workflow for broadcast creation. Able to handle projects of any resolution, including HDTV and Film, Mirage provides a powerful alternative to expensive proprietary solutions and complex software workflows.
3D Textures, UV Maps and Matte Painting
Mirage’s powerful drawing and paint system is the ultimate UV texturing tool - for both static and animated 2D textures. Create amazing, seamless texture maps using Mirage’s digital pens, silky smooth airbrushes, and powerful gradiants. Mirage’s Natural media tools provide the organic diversity needed to create almost any kind of surface. Distortion tools like Mirage’s Wrapping Grid can subtly warp the pixels for a perfect fit in any situation. LightWave 3D™ users benefit by using Mirage’s real-time UV Texture viewer – that allows interactive viewing and painting directly on LightWave UV maps in Mirage’s Project Window.
Mirage allows the 3D artist with traditional art skills to easily create dynamic background mattes for their 3D projects. Mirage’s natural media paint tools, combined with its multitude of included effects, are a perfect way to create any type of background. Mirage’s resolution-independent projects and brushes remove the usual constraints: letting you effortlessly use video or any other format of imagery you wish as a background. Compose, animate and manipulate layer upon layer, freely mixing elements from multiple sources and in diverse resolutions with total control
