Digital Fusion 4 review
Everyone talks about the market upheavals and price drops in the 3D market, but it's compositing that has gone through the greatest change in the ...
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Expression 3 review
Just about every vector illustration package these days features ‘real-media’ art effects, and various stretched and repeated picture brushes. This leaves Expression, originally launched in ...
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Universe 5 review
Universe is a 3D application featuring tools for modelling, animation, and rendering. Like NewTek LightWave, it comes as two separate programs: Modeller, for creating models; ...
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WireFusion 3 review
WireFusion 3 is a tool for developing dynamic Web presentations. It uses an arrangement of objects and connections to create behaviours for components in the ...
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Ozone 2 review
Ozone is, in some ways, the opposite of Mover. While Mover brings animation to Vue d’Esprit, Ozone brings realistic atmospherics to LightWave. The package consists of ...
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Premiere 6.5 review
Premiere 6.5 is a mixed bag. It has some important new features that, on their own, justify the cost of the upgrade. However, there are ...
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Messiah:animate 3.0 review
Messiah:animate is a standalone tool for 3D character-animation; it doesn’t replace your main 3D application, or plug into it. Messiah:animate does its best to look friendly. ...
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Optimaze! review
Regular Web users want to be entertained with exciting, fast-loading interactive content. As an interactive designer and developer, your job is to pack as much ...
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SolidThinking 5.0 LT review
In a bid to maximize its product’s market, Gestel has released its powerful NURBS surface modelling and rendering system, SolidThinking 5.0 LT. The company’s range ...
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 review
After a long period of consistently failing to keep the Windows and Mac versions of CorelDraw Graphics Suite in sync, Corel now looks like it ...
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3DS Max 5 review
Of the top 3D modelling and animation packages, 3DS Max has been the most widely distributed. However, recent price drops from its competitors have left ...
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RT.X100 review
Matrox pioneered the sub-£1,000 real-time editing system with the RT2000 back in May 2000 (reviewed in Digit 23), but since then, the RT2000 – and ...
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trueSpace 6 review
Despite being distinctly different in its approach to interface design, Caligari – the maker of trueSpace – is still going strong, and has released version ...
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Precision M50 review
The Precision M50 sits in the same case as its predecessor, the M40, with the same excellent 15-inch, 1,600-x-1,200-pixel UltraSharp screen – but almost everything ...
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Carrara 2.0 review
Eovia’s Carrara Studio 2.0 is an all-terrain, go-anywhere modelling, animation, and rendering tool that aims to pull together everything a 3D artist needs into one ...
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Toon Boom Studio 2.0 review
3D-animation tools are ten a penny, and despite the 3D market going through some growing pains, most digital artists can easily name five or more ...
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Video Toaster 2 review
You get a lot for your money with Video Toaster 2 – essentially a live-production studio on a PCI card. The £2,200 price tag includes ...
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Edition DV review
This may be Edition DV’s first release, but it’s not a new product. The first offspring of Pinnacle’s takeover of Fast in September 2001, Edition ...
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Boris Graffiti 2 review
Boris Graffiti 2 is a titling add-on for a whole range of editing-and-effects packages. It’s available in two versions: the standard version for tools such ...
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Softimage|3D 4.0 review
Softimage|3D is the granddaddy of 3D-animation software. It’s been available for around 15 years, and has been the tool of choice for some of the ...