ArtMatic Voyager 1.0 review
U&I Software’s ArtMatic Voyager is a keenly priced, dedicated 3D landscape generator for Mac OS 9 and OS X that can produce scenes of stunning realism or worlds of fantastic imagination.
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Mirage review
Mirage offers the widest and most creative paint-based toolset for compositors and animators available.
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The TAB 2.0 review
The TAB is a curious little animation tool from the maker of Toonz – the previously Softimage-affiliated product that was used in the making of Spirited Away.
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InDesign CS review
Despite Adobe’s decision to drop version numbers and call everything CS, the splash screen reveals what we all knew anyway: this is InDesign 3.0.
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Motionbuilder 5 review
MotionBuilder is now available in two versions – standard and professional. The professional version of this real-time character animation suite is aimed squarely at filmmakers, while the standard version is set to take advantage of the desktop director market.
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Carrara Studio 3 review
Many 3D packages are like religions, and less-entrenched tools, such as Carrara Studio, have to work much harder to woo serious 3D designers.
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Vue 4 Professional review
E-on Software, makers of landscape and environment rendering package Vue d’Esprit, has launched a new version aimed more at the professional 3D market. The prosaically named Vue 4 Professional seems to be an attempt by E-on to make Vue 4 Professional the 3D program everyone wanted Corel’s Bryce to become.
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Combustion 3 review
One of the most enticing new features in Combustion 3 is the built-in editing capability. The Edit tool exists as an operator (as Combustion calls its effects nodes) and creating edits is easy). However, as an NLE, the Edit operator offers less functionality than iMovie.
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Encore DVD review
When you open Encore DVD, you are greeted with a faintly familiar tabbed palette setup – but with a cut-down five-piece toolset. The timeline comes from the likes of Premiere, and the layers from Photoshop, so users of other Adobe products (particularly those within the Video Collection) will have little trouble navigating it.
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3DS Max 6 review
With users barely familiar with the new features in Max 5, Discreet has released yet another upgrade to its popular 3D animation system. There are ...
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Dimension 8300 review
The Dimension 8300 PC is one of the first in this line from Dell to pair Intel’s top-end 3.2GHz Pentium 4 CPU with 1GB of ...
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 review
When Macromedia merged with Allaire, it looked as though Allaire’s server technologies might dominate the Macromedia product line. Dreamweaver in particular seemed to be concentrating ...
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Flash MX 2004 review
"This is Flash as you know and love it, taken to the next level.” That’s part of the marketing blurb accompanying the launch of Flash ...
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Anark Studio 2 review
Anark Studio 2 uses layers, inspector palettes, scenes, and timelines that will be familiar to anyone used to Director or Flash. Veteran users will notice that ...
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Magic Bullet Suite 1.5 review
While everyone would love to shoot on 35mm, the practicalities and expense mean that real film is only used now on the most high-budget productions. ...
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Xpress Pro review
As with its predecessor, Xpress DV, Xpress Pro sits at the top of the software NLE pile, placed alongside Final Cut Pro looking down on ...
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After Effects 6.0 review
For many editors, compositing tools such as After Effects are a largely unknown area – too complicated to create all but the most basic motion ...
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Power Mac G5 review
The most highly awaited creative computer of 2003 is finally here. Apple’s Power Mac G5 – dubbed “the world’s fastest personal computer” and “the world’s ...
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PURE review
PURE from ART (Advanced Rendering Technology) is a full-length PCI card designed to accelerate 3D graphics. Unlike conventional graphics cards, PURE doesn’t affect OpenGL display ...
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Precision M60 review
Unlike the much-lauded M50, the Precision M60 mobile workstation from Dell is not an upgrade of a previous model. With the M50 now available with ...