Ikivo Animator review
Ikivo Animator creates vector animations in SVG Tiny format, taking content that you've created in Photoshop and Illustrator and prepares it for distribution to mobile phones.
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Maya 7 review
This latest release sees changes throughout, with virtually no major area of the program left untouched. Maya 7 introduces a host of new features as well as changes and revisions to existing ones, and includes some reworking of the UI and workflow.
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Xtivity 1.1 review
Plenty of multimedia-authoring applications these days offer the ability to export your projects to the SWF Flash file format. The difference here lies in the process.
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Hexagon review
Hexagon, the latest release from Eovia, is a dedicated 3D polygon modeller. The company already has a handful of 3D programs in the form of Carrara and Amapi. Eovia offers yet more 3D products on its Web site – you can buy DAZ and Pandromeda products, including MojoWorld and Bryce, at Eovia online.
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GoLive CS 2 review
Web designers already familiar with GoLive’s features will be happy to hear that Adobe has made efforts to improve the functionality and performance of GoLive in its CS 2 version.
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Panoweaver 4.0 review
Shanghai-based EasyPano offers major competition to the iPix when it comes to panorama creation software. The program stitches fisheye lens photographs into seamless spherical panoramas. These are viewed in Web sites or presentations.
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Combustion 4 review
Combustion has been portrayed in many different ways by Discreet since its inception, but the company has had the most trouble trying to convince the majority of compositors that it’s a better compositing environment than After Effects.
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Acrobat 7.0 Professional review
Despite a low-key launch, the latest version of Adobe Acrobat has some solidly useful new features for creating and editing PDF exchangeable documents for use in professional Web, printing, and publishing cycles.
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Instant PDF 3.0 review
Instant PDF 3.0 is intended to ensure that PDF documents will output correctly in a professional production cycle. For print, its core function is to run pre-flight checks for items that cannot be printed (such as RGB colours, too-low resolutions, JavaScripts, and multimedia clips).
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ZBrush 2 review
It has been said that 3D graphics technology is stuck in a rut. It’s practically inconceivable to imagine a 3D program taking some other form. There have been a few minor diversions off the 3D motorway but never has there been one so tangential as ZBrush from Pixologic.
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ScanMaker i700 review
The new Microtek flatbed scanner offers the high resolution and ICE dust-busting of its top i900 model but in a much more compact body that gets rid of the original dual ‘plates’ in favour of a conventional glass bed and illuminated hood.
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Squeeze 4 review
The latest version of Sorenson’s Squeeze Compression Suite takes a slight departure, looks-wise, from its predecessors. Although it retains the simplistic and intuitive workflow the interface is more akin to higher-end video solutions with dark windows sporting orange and white highlights.
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Continuum Complete 3.0 review
Continnum 3.0 is a massive set of video plug-ins. The collection runs with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or After Effects, and there’s a Continuum AVX version for Avid Xpress. Over 40 plug-ins have been brought into the mix since version 2.0, which brings the total number of plug-ins to around 150.
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Au Naturel review
Au Naturel is an After Effects plug-in that restores a more realistic gamma curve to video footage, instead of the one imposed through your camera or MPEG compression. It allows you to manipulate footage in a 32-bit per channel, floating point linear RGB colour space.
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Painter IX review
When Painter 8 appeared, it was hailed as the breakthrough version that finally transformed Painter’s ghastly interface into something usable. The changes in Painter IX are less dramatic, but it’s still a good upgrade. Corel has put a great deal of effort into the documentation, help, and tutorials.
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NaturalMotion Endorphin 1.5 review
ACT, the concept behind Endorphin, uses intelligent behaviours to apply physical simulations of human movement, and allows real-time interactive control using constraints and forces. Building animation with Endorphin is simple, using one of the most straightforward user interfaces in 3D.
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Wirefusion 4.0 review
Demicron’s latest version of this Web multimedia tool is as simple to use as its predecessors. It has the same logical structure and methodology for creating interactive 3D elements but with a new, cleaner interface. It’s Java-based, but you don’t need any programming knowledge to build applications and objects for streaming into Web pages.
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Avid Xpress Studio review
Both Adobe and Apple have been pushing the integration of their video, audio and DVD authoring tools with their respective Video Collection and Production Suite. Avid has hit back with Xpress Studio, a series of tools that provide an end-to-end creative studio
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Xara X1 review
This drawing and illustration application has been in a crisis of identity recently. In the last couple of years it’s been called eveything from Corel Xara to Webster. This upgrade bears the name Xara X1.
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Swift 3D 4 review
For the creation of 3D vector animation and 3D Flash movies, Swift 3D, is one of the most successful tools on the market. This is largely thanks to its ease-of-use. It allows 2D designers to draw shapes using bézier curves, and then using the extrusion tool to add both depth and bevels, or the Lathe Editor to convert paths into radial 3D surfaces.