The ArtMatic Creative ToolboX (CTX) is a graphics and sound engine plus a unique set of two integrated applications for procedurally creating still images, motion graphics, video special effects, animation, sound design, and music.
Designer has hundreds of graphics and mathematical modules that you can link together in countless ways to generate still images for MetaSynth, animations for Music Videos, and complex sounds for motion pictures.
It can be seen as a Modular synthesizer capable of almost anything that is algorithmically and mathematically possible. Use it to create all kinds of graphics: decorative images, background textures, video effects, fractals, fine-art, motion graphics, sound effects, audio loops, and more. You can even use it to process photos and videos, or use audio as a math system, that controls 2D, or 3D.
Use it with MetaSynth sounds to command pulsing 3D objects, create images in ArtMatic for use in its Image Synth or Image Filter tools, or create unique ArtMatic music to collage in the Montage room.
Voyager renders ArtMatic 3D objects and generates landscapes from 2D images. It has a built-in environment for controlling clouds, sun position, haze, sea level for landscape creation. With the no-planet mode, you can also render cosmic scenes, with multiple lights, including multiple suns. The Voyager camera lets you animate all the environmental parameters within keyframes and create fly thoughts of your worlds. Place and animate any ArtMatic 3D objects and use Designer to adjust their components parameters.
The "Live Link" in Designer communicates parameter changes to Voyager when both are running. This allows for editing complex models in Designer while watching a preview rendered by Voyager. It also allows for audio files or ArtMatic audio to be the master controller of objects, clouds, even trees.
Reviewed By interozitor [all]
February 20th, 2022
Version reviewed: CTX 1.2 on Mac
If Macintosh-based 3D landscape generators were a solar system, first, it would be rather sparsely populated, and second, it would have two main planets: Terrragen and Vue; plus a few minor planets, such as Terraray.
And, of course, there would be a sun that would dwarf everything: Artmatic Voyager.
Honestly - when I discovered the early versions of AV by chance years ago (version 1.2 or so), I was immediately overwhelmed: finally a program that was as easy to use as the legendary Bryce (R. I. P. - your loss leaves a painful wound to this day), but in contrast to that unforgotten 3D jewel could create literally endless worlds, the sight of which took your breath away. Wow.
Meanwhile, AV has evolved magnificently. Admittedly, Terragen can also be used to create quite nice landscapes - but this is all connected with an enormous, sometimes unnerving amount of time and work. And at the latest, if you want to give your Terragen scenes a bit more magic and dreaminess (up to non-realism, for example green skies and yellow seas), the program is hopelessly overtaxed.
Vue is also quite good, but can't keep up with AV when it comes to "magic picture mood". Another disadvantage: You can only rent it, not buy it. I hate and boycott business models that enslave me financially like that.
That's why AV is by far the best thing out there for artists working on the Mac (and who voluntarily puts themselves through a torture instrument like Windows?). You can tell right away that AV was and is designed by artists: fabulously easy to use, combined with stunning results.
Just to explore the included presets alone is not enough for a human life. The same goes for Artmatic Designer. AD is a program without equal - in the Mac realm and even more so in the realm of evil (Windows). It is very easy to use and creates dreamlike images that knock the viewer off his chair.
For me an equally important plus point: For AD and AV you only have to pay a very moderate and fair one-time price. No exploitative subscription system!
Last but not least, I have to praise the personal support in the highest tones. I had a problem with the CTX version (caused by Apple's paranoid security mania), and Kevin from UI Support (assisted by Spiritus Rector Eric Wenger) personally raised heaven and hell to solve it for me. For that I say here best thanks and appreciation.
Conclusion: Both Designer and Voyager are fabulous programs that are addictive. No matter if you are a hobby user or a professional: With AV and AD the design possibilities grow to infinity!
Here is my still growing Pixabay account which is featuring my AV and AD pictures:
https://pixabay.com/de/users/interozitor-25735928/
Read ReviewReviewed By owlbert@icloud.com [all]
February 22nd, 2021
Version reviewed: CTX 1.0 on Mac
I have found no other program quite like this.. and the inbuilt potential of simultaneous sound and image-animation.
is such an intriguing quest and challenge that the program allows endless exploration of ..I like combining and contrasting the machinic and traditional animation and editing applications. the following are two examples of experiments using the program to respond to sound and to actually generate sound and animation ...
Dis Hop by Tatonic. uses sound responsive animation systems in Artmatic-edited and recomposed with traditional editing softwares.
and "Alien Brain Therapy" a simultaneous construction of sounds and image -audiovisual synthesiser using the "Listen to" room in the latest version of Artmatic Designer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pP4-LwH38E
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