Forge FreeForm
Is re-knowned in the world of 2D animation, special effects and compositing. Forge FreeForm utilizes a scalable proprietary 3D engine to offer 3D curvilinear warping and 3D displacement mapping on desktop systems and applications. Once the domain of high-end dedicated systems such as discreet’s Flame and Inferno, Forge FreeForm brings this functionality to the desktop in a robust and highly intuitve manner.

Chris Bobotis, co-owner of Mettle, is also the founder of Forge Technology Inc. Chris created and spear-headed the development of FreeForm AE for Adobe After Effects, FreeForm DS for Avid DS and FreeForm DF for Eyeon’s Digital Fusion. The FreeForm group of products is sold both online and through Value Added Resellers worlwide.

Customers include; Belief, Dreamworks, Epoxy, Flash Film Works, FOX, Fly Studio, Spontaneous Combustion, Universal Studios amongst others. See the Forge Technology website for further information.

Generator (working title)
Proprietary to Mettle ’’Generator’’ was developed to facilitate the creation of stunning visuals. A procedural approach to animation is utilized, including genetic, mutational and evolutionary algorithms.

You can see examples of ’’Generator’’ in action in both our royalty-free stock offerings as well in our commercial work for our clients.