Make any 3D form imaginable.
Words dissolve into sand, a logo catches on fire, and now 3D sequences explode into particles. Form 2 keeps the beautiful organic shapes that you love while adding amazing 3D object support and powerful Particular 2 controls. Give your base form endless 3D possibilities by importing OBJ models, OBJ sequences or starting with our professionally designed presets. Supercharge the form with popular Particular features like Textured Polygon particles and Shading for AE lights. Form 2 has tools that work for the high-end motion designer, the professional VFX compositor and every artist in between. With its reorganized interface and better integration into After Effects, Form has grown alongside your creative needs.
What's New
• Bring OBJ’s into After Effects with Form’s support for 3D models and 3D sequences
• Get the Particular 2 features you love, like Textured Polygon and Streaklet particle types
• Illuminate your particles with Shading for visual depth and tight integration to AE lights
• Full Layer Map support gives advanced animation control over particle size, rotation and color
• Expanded Spherical Field features let you distort a sphere into any elliptical shape
Reasons To Buy
• Full integration with After Effects' 3D environment including camera and lights
• Great for generating fluid lines, looping backgrounds and text effects
• Audio Reactors make it easy to sync animation to a soundtrack or voice
• Presets designed by Guru animator Harry Frank get Form projects started quickly
• Backward compatibility with Form 1 projects

Unlimited 3D possibilities with OBJ import
Go beyond grids and spheres with Form’s brand new OBJ Importer. Now your base form can take any shape imaginable, including animated models designed in your favorite 3D applications. Import a static or animated OBJ, and Form will automatically convert its vertices into particles for a fast start to a sophisticated animation. You get complete 3D support from new features like orthographic viewing, Shading and Layer Maps... oh, and endless possibilities.

Super-powered by Particular 2
It’s a Trapcode mashup! We brought the Particular 2 features you love into Form 2 and reorganized the interface so it is immediately familiar. Particular’s Textured Polygons give you an exciting new particle type that can rotate in 3D space. Add 3D depth to your particles with the power of Shadowlets and natural light fall-off, and work more easily with 3D Cameras using World Transform and Motion Blur. Form 2 has the versatility of Particular 2 but with a completely unique creative twist.

Your recipe for original organic shapes
Your favorite features of Form 1 have been improved with tons of creative options. Expanded particle types and professionally designed presets help you animate beautiful organic 3D shapes and backgrounds. Layer Maps now support fluid base forms like Layered Spheres and OBJs, and have a Rotation group that rotates particles with precision. Spherical Field has new Size X, Y and Z controls that stretch spheres into a variety of elliptical shapes. We can’t wait to see what you do with Form 2.
Compatibility
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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 OS X 10.5.8 and later or 10.6
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
Trapcode Form runs only in After Effects. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on a single computer. Except where noted, the features are the same in all operating systems.
Adobe After Effects CS5.5, CS5, CS4
Please assure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
Adobe After Effects Compatibility
| Host OS | After Effects 6.5 | After Effects 7 | After Effects CS3 | After Effects CS4 | After Effects CS5 | After Effects CS5.5 |
| Mac OS X 10.6 | | | |  |  |  |
| Mac Intel OS X 10.5 | | | |  |  |  |
| Mac Intel OS X 10.4 | | | | | | |
| Mac PowerPC 10.4 & 10.5 | | | | | | |
| Windows 7 64-bit | | | |  |  |  |
| Windows 7 32-bit | | | |  | | |
| Windows Vista 64-bit | | | |  |  |  |
| Windows Vista 32-bit | | | |  | | |
| Windows XP | | | |  | | |
| Linux 32-bit | | | | | | |
| Linux 64-bit | | | | | | |
- Compatible with Host Application version
- Not compatible with Host Application version