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Article | 30/01/2009 Autodesk Maya 2009

Maya celebrates its tenth anniversary with the 2009 release, an event marked by enhancements across the board. Although some of these have popped up i...

Article | 19/11/2008 Caligari trueSpace 7.6

Recently released for free following the takeover of developer Caligari by Microsoft, trueSpace is a fully featured 3D application. Although it has an...

Article | 12/11/2008 Corel Designer Technical Suite X4

With the addition of the X4 tag, Corel has moved Designer further away from the 2-D technical drawing market towards the 3-D CAD space. Not that Desig...

Article | 28/10/2008 DX Studio 3.0

DX Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) aimed at users building real-time 3D interactive applications, simulations or games, as well ...

Article | 21/10/2008 Softimage|XSI 7

The standout new feature of 3D modelling, animation and rendering application XSI 7 is a visual programming environment, ICE (Interactive Creative Env...

Article | 14/10/2008 Strata 3D[in]

Strata’s 3D[in] plug-ins, Design 3D[in], Foto 3D[in] and Live 3D[in], slot neatly into Photoshop Extended CS3’s 3-D features. We’ll concentrate here o...

Article | 1/10/2008 Cinema 4D R11

The latest version of Maxon’s mid-range 3-D suite adds tools that will appeal to its users across design, VFX and animation markets. The software is b...

Article | 1/08/2008 3D Toolbox

Microspot 3D Toolbox is a bit of a curiosity: it's a truly modular 3-D application.

Article | 28/07/2008 Adobe Director 11

Director has been notable by its absence in the successive Master Collections, so it's refreshing to see this old stalwart of the multimedia-authoring...

Article | 15/07/2008 Poser Pro

Now owned by Smith Micro, Poser Pro is built on the Poser 7 character-animation solution and comes with that version's Generation 2 family of fully ri...

Article | 30/06/2008 Microsoft Expression Web 2

Expression Web 2 continues the design-led approach of Blend, offering a well-sized Design view for working with images and text

Article | 30/06/2008 Microsoft Expression Blend 2

Microsoft's Blend is the heart of Expression Studio, the company's suite of tools that allow designers to create rich Internet applications and user i...

Article | 27/06/2008 Microsoft Expression Media 2

Media 2 is the only part of Microsoft's Studio that runs on a Mac.

Article | 27/06/2008 Microsoft Expression Encoder 2

Expression Encoder is a new addition to the Expression suite, a scalable encoding solution for producing and distributing VC-1 encoded video wrapped i...

Article | 15/04/2008 FxFactory Pro 2

FxFactory Pro 2 is a collection of filters, generators and transitions for Apple's Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express, offering 122 effects, ...