Final Effects Complete review
Alongside collections such as Boris FX, Final Effects Complete (FEC) has been one of the few sets of After Effects (AE) plug-ins that has lasted ...
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Pixels 3D 4.5 review
A Mac-only high-end 3D program may seem like a strange proposition, but that’s exactly what Pixels 3D is. While the company can’t spend huge amounts ...
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Electron22blue IV review
Those who are serious about colour reproduction for print nearly always look to LaCie for their display needs. Granted, there are better solutions out there, ...
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Director MX review
Director has finally joined the MX range of Macromedia products, with a long-awaited upgrade, an overhaul of the user interface, and some key new features. ...
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Designer 10 review
After buying Micrografx at the end of 2001, Corel rushed out a less-than-compelling Designer 9 release – which was little more than a rebranding exercise. ...
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ImageModeler 3.5 review
ImageModeler 3.5 extracts 3D information from multiple photographs of the same object, and creates accurate 3D polygon mesh models with a photorealistic texture. These can ...
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Camedia 5050 Zoom review
Olympus has been using the same basic form for its high-end compact digital cameras since the 2.1mp C2000Z of 1999. The C5050Z represents a major ...
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Amorphium 3 review
While the heavyweight 3D applications battle it out for supremacy in the games and effects market, a smaller battle quietly rages on: Electric Image Amorphium ...
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DVStorm2 review
It’s been handbags at dawn between Canopus and Matrox over the last six months. The DVStorm2 was announced in September 2002, shortly after Matrox had ...
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Sigma SD9 review
Capturing razor-sharp and colour-accurate photos can be a challenge, even with today’s multimillion-pixel digital cameras. But Foveon, an image-sensor company, promises to change all that with ...
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MojoWorld 2.0 review
Pandromeda's MojoWorld is a virtual planet/terrain generator developed largely by Dr Kenton Musgrave, whose involvement in fractal-geometry landscape generation goes back to pioneering work he ...
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i-Pegs 1.0 review
2D animation tools, unlike their 3D cousins, are rare. One player in this rarefied market is i-Pegs, from French company MediaPegs. i-Pegs is the cut-down ...
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FinePix F401 Zoom review
The FinePix F401 Zoom combines all the features you’d expect from FujiFilm and, after putting it through its paces, we can safely say that this ...
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Artmatic Pro 3.0 review
The freaky minds at U&I Software have brought their uniquely difficult-to-describe graphics package to Mac OS X at last. A mere graphical toy to some ...
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Cinema 4D 8 review
The idea behind the latest release of Cinema 4D is that its pricing should grow to reflect the user’s needs, providing a basic package to ...
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onViz review
onViz is intended to create interactive multimedia applications with online connectivity and QuickTime multimedia support. Although this is a Mac-only product, you can create self-contained ...
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Realsoft 3D 4.5 review
As a 3D design and animation package, Realsoft 3D covers all the ground you’d expect from a reasonably high-end package. However, it aims itself at ...
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ImageZoom 2.0 Professional review
ImageZoom 2.0 from Swedish developer Scalado is a Java or Flash Web-site image-authoring system that can quickly set up a ‘slideshow’ sequence of linked images ...
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Softimage|XSI 3.0 review
The Softimage name is legendary in 3D. It’s been around since the beginning, and has been popular among film-effects studios for years. Now with prices ...
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Evo N800w review
For the uninitiated, a mobile workstation is a laptop based around a scaled-down version of a workstation-class graphics card – such as NVidia’s Quadro4 Go ...