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LightWave 3D 6.5 is a powerful animation-production package for professionals. It is built upon the fast, accurate 3-D Inverse Kinematics (IK) engine. It features radiosity, caustics, subdivision surface animation, Skelegons, and thousands of enhancements. LightWave 6.5 is a robust tool set for manipulating these surfaces, including interactive modifiers that allow you to model in multiple "soft" modes. LightWave also allows you to sculpt "digital clay" by directly manipulating it at the vertex level, controlling groups of points or polygons with an extreme list of operators. Real-time subdivision surfaces, extensive texturing tools, character animation tools, HyperVoxels, and ray tracing are all incorporated into an extremely powerful animation system. |
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Strata 3D is an easy-to-use 3-D creation package that enables you to quickly drench your imagery with realism. New export features allow you to port stunning content to the Web for e-commerce solutions. Within minutes, create 3-D models, apply sophisticated textures, and add dramatic lighting to render stunning 3-D effects. |
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Bryce 5 lets you create realistic 3-D landscapes and animations. Striking an optimum balance between power and ease of use, Bryce is an ideal way to integrate 3-D technology into your creative process. Smooth network rendering saves time by letting you render images on multiple computers. The new Light Lab gives you robust control over lighting direction, and the new Tree Lab ensures a more accurate depiction of real-world environments. |
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Amorphium Pro takes the original version of Amorphium to the next level while adding some professional features. An important new option is the ability to export 3-D animation as a Flash movie, broadening Amorphium's appeal to Web designers. The program also features better import-export functions. Amorphium includes tools for building models, adding texture, animating, and rendering out to a QuickTime, AVI, or Flash movie. Thus it works well as a complete standalone application for creating animated graphics. However, the application's import and export abilities allow Amorphium to work with other programs such as 3ds Max and Electric Image Universe, making it an excellent organic modeler that works in conjunction with these and other applications. |
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Long regarded as a competent--though basic--tool for generic 3- D work, Ulead Cool 3D 3.0 includes some sophisticated features. Although not a tool for creating the next Toy Story, it offers a solid feature set for creating clean 3-D text and logos. |
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Functioning as a Photoshop plug-in or a stand-alone application, SmartSaver Pro gives users the choice of working in their favorite image editing application or as a stand-alone program. Version 3.0 introduces new features that make it easier to prime images and animations for Web publication. |
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If you're looking for an affordable 3-D modeler to create, render, and animate 3-D objects and scenes, your search has ended. Amapi 3D 5.15 boasts a feature set to rival those of more expensive programs, such as the $1,499 form-Z. Among this version's new features are dynamic geometry; surface-smoothing, filleting, and deformation tools; and new (and faster) display modes. As in earlier versions, you can work in either the standard interface, with its floating tool palette, or in the often inscrutable icon-based Workshop Interface. For more sophisticated animations, you can export your work to another 3-D application in any of 24 formats |
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Functioning as a Photoshop plug-in or a stand-alone application, SmartSaver Pro gives users the choice of working in their favorite image editing application or as a stand-alone program. Version 3.0 introduces new features that make it easier to prime images and animations for Web publication. |
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Macromedia's Flash 5 brings substantial changes and improvements to this dominant player in the Web animation tools arena. A new and customizable interface and improved scripting are the most notable of the new features. These, among other enhancements, make this upgrade almost essential to any serious designer.
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Here's a little no nonsense advice for those of you who are considering Dreamweaver 4 as your future Web editor: don't skimp; buy this bundle. The seamless integration of Dreamweaver 4 with the nicely upgraded graphics application Fireworks 4 justifies the investment in this complete suite.
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The Macromedia Flash 5/FreeHand 10 Studio is a complete multipublishing solution that improves design productivity and eases the transition to the Web. Design a document once, then publish it across multiple media, including print, the Web, and beyond.
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