Matrix 1.0 review
Chrome Imaging's Matrix is a compositing package that looks and acts like a resolution-independent high-end tool such as Shake, but is priced nearer to the ...
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Maya 3.5 for Mac OS X review
Up to now, most of the really high-end 3D animation packages have been available only on Windows and Linux. Mac users have been under-supported. The ...
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Gloria DCC review
New from Elsa in its expanding Gloria range of professional graphics cards is the DCC (aimed at the digital content creation market). The card is ...
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Titanium Ti500 review
When choosing a 3D graphics card for your system, you have two options: you can go for a card designed for the market in which ...
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After Effects 5.5 review
The two major criticisms levelled at After Effects 5.0 were that the ‘3D-ifying’ of the workspace seemed unfinished, and that there were not enough new ...
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DVStorm SE Plus review
The world of real-time DV editing may be dominated by Matrox and Pinnacle, but smaller players are also getting in on the act. And if ...
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D Joiner review
D Vision Works D Joiner is a stitching program that’s used to assemble multiple rows of overlapping photographs into very wide-angle views. It’s useful for ...
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Swift3D 2.0 review
In its bid to produce the premiere vector 3D creation package for the Web, Electric Rain has released the second version of Swift 3D, its ...
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Illustrator 10 review
The latest version of Adobe’s heavyweight vector-graphics creation package, Illustrator 10, promises much and delivers more. The release is a wide-ranging spread of new and ...
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KPT Effects review
Procreate KPT Effects is a smorgasbord of creative plug-ins pitched at designers looking to push the pixel envelope of photographic effects. Nine Photoshop-compatible filters are ...
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Opus Pro review
lluminatus has for several years been a byword for affordable and approachable multimedia, which was confirmed this year when Digital Workshop released Illuminatus Opus. Now ...
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Softimage|XSI 2.0 review
Softimage’s next-generation 3D package, XSI, has had a difficult birth in the highly charged high-end 3D marketplace. Version 1.0 was late and missed essential features ...
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3D Toolkit review
Since its announcement in early summer, 3D Toolkit has got a lot of people excited. It’s a set of education tools for the Mac, designed ...
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LightWave 7 review
LightWave has been one of the top three 3D animation packages for a long time now, and its credits include dozens of Hollywood films, TV ...
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Designer 9 review
Micrografx made its name with business graphics rather than professional design, and despite having engendered a loyal user base, Designer has never threatened the likes ...
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Commotion 4.0 review
Anyone who knows anything about compositing knows that 3D is the future. Who needs 2D when you can mix your footage and animation in true ...
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DreamSuite review
DreamSuite is a visual enhancement program that’s designed to work with photographic images, graphics and type. It can work either as a plug-in for graphics ...
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Painter 7 review
All photo-editing software packages provide a handful of paint tools that mimic natural media, such as brushes, chalk, pencils and calligraphic nibs. But none can ...
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Stitcher 3.0 review
RealViz Stitcher is a variation on the panorama program that lets you join rows of images in the up–down direction as well as the more ...
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Carrara Studio 1.1 review
Many companies have launched 3D applications into the mid-range market and boasted of their high-end prowess, and an equal number have fallen at the first ...