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The Stats
- Developer: Red Giant Software, Formerly Digital Anarchy Psunami Water and before that, Atomic Power Psunami
- Version: 1.3
- Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with Final Cut Studio 3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility
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Description
Used in Miramax’s movie, “The Aviator,” Psunami generates precise 3D geometry of an ocean surface, then produces ultra-realistic ray-traced output that looks like real water, from flat pools to raging high seas. Choose from hundreds of editable controls, and even place your camera underwater for the ultimate immersive effect. Psunami has been used in many feature films, television productions and commercials.
Features
- True Reflection Mapping Let your water reflect the sky of your choice
- Displacement Mapping Create compelling custom effects such as whirlpools or wakes
- Atmospheric Effects Add fog, rainbows or haze
- Time-saving Grayscale Mode Grayscale mode allows for speedy setup and preview
- DOF Rendering Depth of field rendering makes it easy to composite additional layers
- Tiling Feature Defining tiled water patterns helps speed rendering while retaining realism
- Rendering Options A range of choices to that suits your time and project
- Water Loops Create seamless looping water effects that animate flawlessly
Highlights
Ultra-realistic output
Psunami uses Arete Image Software’s RenderWorld ray-tracing engine — the same one used in movies such as Titanic, The Truman Show, Cast Away and Pearl Harbor. With features such as swell controls, air and light optics, wind, displacement mapping, depth of field control, reflection mapping, and tiling, your water effects will fool the experts.
Complete camera control
Psunami lets you fly your camera in 3D space above the water, on the water’s surface, or even below the water, for the ultimate in realism. Set the field of view to determine how much surface detail is visible.
Easy animation options
Need to add an object on the water, such as a boat or a buoy? Psunami makes it easy to composite objects into your water scene. Time stretch features help to create slow-motion scenes, while animating the Wind properties can quickly change the look of your waves.
Examples
Psunami Detail
A complex water animation that provides a realistic depiction of deep-sea ocean swells. The waves have true height in 3D and have a completely realistic surface appearance.
Psunami Slow Bob
This video features more deep-sea wave action, but adds a horizon and a distant sun. Notice how the camera is set to bob up and down naturally by being tied to the wave action in Psunami.
Update
If you are a Digital Anarchy user, you can get a FREE update to the current existing version of the same product from Red Giant Software. There is NO charge to get the new version from Red Giant Software.
How It Works
You simply enter your name, email, and old Digital Anarchy serial number, and you will be sent a new Red Giant Software serial number for the equivilant product. For example, if you owned Digital Anarchy Data Animator, you can get the latest version of Red Giant Datamator with new Intel Mac support and better performance.
Visit:Serial Number Conversion
Supported Products
The following products are available for exchange:
- 3D Assistants is now Red Giant PlaneSpace
- Data Animator is now Red Giant Datamator
- Psunami Water is now Red Giant Psunami
- Resizer is now part of Instant HD and Instant HD Advanced
- Text Anarchy remains Text Anarchy and includes Geomancy and Anarchy Toolbox filters
- ToonIt! is now Red Giant ToonIt and includes support for all platforms including Avid
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later
- Power Mac G5, Mac Intel
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
Red Giant Psunami runs in a variety of host applications. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on more than one host application, but only on a single computer at any one time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all systems and host applications.
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7
- Apple Final Cut Pro 7, 6, 5.1.4
- Apple Motion 3.02, 4
Please ensure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
