For many years, creating 3D characters was beyond the budget and ability of novice users. Many amateur 3D artists inspired by the stunning images shown in computer-generated films could not afford the expensive and complex software needed to create animations. With Poser 8, new users and hobbyists can create entire, professional-quality scenes in minutes that utilize automatically- generated walking, running or dancing sequences and lifelike speaking capabilities. Once created, you can post your animations to YouTube or any of your favorite social networking sites.

Poser 8 allows artists to work with avatars and all types of 3D characters, such as giant ogres and talking chipmunks that proliferate in advertising, video games, television and full-length feature films. Poser 8 acts as a virtual stage, offering eight new, ready-to-pose, fully textured humans of different ethnicities and body types to give artists a starting point in designing their characters. The new Poser content library provides more than 2.5 gigabytes of human and animal figures accompanied by a wide range of accessories including hair, clothing, sets and real-world props and elements such as lights and cameras to produce complete scenes. With the ability to combine indirect diffuse illumination with improved irradiance caching and path tracing, Poser 8 renders images with global illumination qualities that create images so realistic that they can fool an untrained eye Features control spot and point lights to more closely reproduce realistic light falloff from full bright to dark Tone Mapping and Exposure - Helps artists control bright or dark areas within an image to produce higher-quality, final renderings with better contrast Wardrobe Wizard - Allows artists to re-use existing clothing assets by fitting them to the new Poser 8 character set wxPython Support - Enables third-party developers to create more advanced plug-i

Poser 8 is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation with 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art. Poser includes over 2.5 gigabytes of ready-to-pose human and animal figures, textures, props and 3D scene elements. Generate new characters from your facial photographs. Add hair and clothing. Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to build 3D scenes. Animate and render your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects. Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications. Artists, hobbyists, illustrators and animators--get creative with Poser!

Poser 8's easy to use interface makes it easy to create 3D character images and animation. Click to enlarge.

Easily Create 3D Character Art and Animation

Poser 8 is better than ever
Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependant parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.

Poser 8 includes:

All Poser's included figures and 3D content are fully textured using our powerful node-based shader system. Click to enlarge.

Turn your 3D scene into an artistic sketch using Poser 8's sketch designer. Click to enlarge.

Automatically generate animated figures that can walk or run through your 3D scene. Click to enlarge.

Poser 8's powerful cloth engine lets you transform any object or clothing prop into dynamic cloth that stretches, drapes and flows naturally, even over an animated figure. Click to enlarge.

With Poser you can produce photorealistic images and animations, or render in styles including cartoon tones, sketch renderings, silhouettes, wireframes and even Flash. Click to enlarge.

Import a spoken word sound file, and with the included Talk Designer, your Poser 8 figures will speak in sync with the sound. Click to enlarge.

8 new figures
The new set of eight 3D humans included with Poser 8 are the most advanced figures ever included with the application, and are a showcase for new Poser 8 features. Built from scratch, the figures are performance optimized for the polygon count and have custom photorealistic textures. Rigged using Poser 8's new multiple sphere and capsule fall off zone technology, problematic joints such as hips and shoulders now bend with more realism than any figure on the market. By using the new Dependent Parameter tool to link deformers to specific joint positions, areas such as knees, elbows, chest and collar joints have smoother folds, less stretching and more realism. The new Poser 8 figures are offered in four pairs of male/female couples with European features, African features, Asian features and Hispanic features. The Poser 8 new figures are fully compliant with the Face Room, the Walk Designer and Talk Designer, and via the use of Wardrobe Wizard, much of the included legacy clothing content has been converted to work directly on the figures.

~1.5GB of new Poser 8 Content
In addition to the new set of figures, Poser 8 includes an array of new content supplied by third party partners as well content created by the Smith Micro team of 3D artists. A new art-school inspired default manikin opens each new scene, and will serve as a remarkable reference figure for artists. Fully articulated human skeletons that match the male and female figures body topology are included. Various new poses, animations, light sets, props, and accessories to help new users get started are included in the Poser 8 content installer. Poser 8 also includes an additional 1.5GB of legacy Poser 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 content.

New User Interface
Poser 8 offers a new evolved user interface, preserving the elements that Poser users are accustomed to, while presenting them in a more concise layout that takes better advantage of various screen resolutions. The new layout produces a cleaner work environment so artists can focus on the project. All controls are presented in floating palettes that can be docked for consistency, session to session, or floated to free up space.

Dependent Parameters
Poser 8 unlocks an advanced user secret with the new Dependent Parameter palette. Poser 8 lets the artist create new Master Parameters or turn any existing Parameter into a Master Parameter that can drive any other editable parameters in the scene. Complex interactions can be created such as Full Body Morphs, Partial Body Morphs, Advanced Body Controls, Joint Controlled Morph Targets, Joint Controlled Deformers and Parameter Controlled Scene Assets.

Indirect Lighting
By bouncing light and color from object to adjacent object in a scene, Poser 8's Global Illumination system can render images that appear so realistic they can fool the untrained eye into thinking the images are photos rather than 3D renderings.

OpenGL Preview Improvements
Preview now displays up to 8 lights and their accumulated values, sorted by intensity. The light properties controller allows you to select each light you wish to illuminate in the scene preview.

Content Management System / Library
The new library presents content by category, but with a tighter list view with expanding previews and additional data for each content item. Content items can be loaded into the scene using the traditional Poser UI controls or can now be dragged directly from the Library into the scene. The Poser 8 Library also supports keyword search. Type in a keyword to find exactly what you looking for. Add any selected items to your favorites.

Cross Body Part Morph Creation
With Poser 8 comes a significant improvement to the current Morphing Tool. Now you can dial in a Morph Brush and paint morphs across body parts. Easily create effects such as muscle bulges, scales, bumps, horns, veins or wounds; it's only limited by your imagination.

Improved Rigging System
Poser 8 has improved upon the existing joint Falloff Zone rigging system by adding any number of new zones to a joint, while adding a new capsule shape to the existing sphere, and allowing the rigger to either multiply or add the Falloff Zone values. This system will permit figure creators to rig challenging areas such as hips and shoulders with more precision, yielding better bending figures.

Tone Mapping and Exposure
Tone Mapping helps control very bright and dark areas in an image to produce better, less blown out final renderings with deeper contrast. The feature is very useful, helping to bring the brightest areas back into a reproducible range. Two modes of Tone Mapping are available for differing effects: Exponential Tone Mapping and HSV Tone Mapping. Exposure values are editable when either Exponential or HSV Tone Mapping is selected.

Physically Correct Light Falloff
For Spot and Point lights, Poser 8 lets users attenuate (control) falloff to more closely reproduce real-world light behaviors. Constant falloff replicates the previous Poser behavior, and Inverse Linear and Inverse Square add two new methods for getting light to appear more realistic.

Normal Mapping
Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light-weight computation of rendered results.

Performance Optimizations

• Figure/Actor pre-lighting and picking
• Bending on multi-core/multi-processor hardware
• Improved multi-processor support for better scalability when rendering
• Cloth simulation multithreaded/optimized
• Increased performance for opening/handling complex scenes

Poser 8 Uses:

• Professional 3D graphics professionals
• 3D Hobby/Enthusiast Market
• Comic book / graphic novel creators
• General Purpose 3D Users
• Upgrade Poser Users
• Art Students
• Traditional Artists/Sculptors

Poser provides a number of professional users with a fast, easy to access resource for 3D humans, animals, and other scene assets. Professional users include: Architectural illustrators, industrial designers, medical illustrators, graphic designers, editorial illustrators, book illustrators, informational graphics, advertising illustration, web illustration, interactive content, story boarding, lighting and theatrical set designers, film/video production

3D hobbyists and enthusiasts who dabble in 3D for personal satisfaction, experiment with Poser to gain 3D experience, and may use Poser to expand into new careers, or create a graphic novel, sci-fi art, fantasy art, or develop a screen play.

Comic book creators and graphic novelists use Poser render images and animations to create their own titles. Single images, multiple page comics and graphic novels delivered via print and digital media are a great use of Poser.

If you work with other 3D applications such as Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Modo, Lightwave, Truespace, Bruce, or Vue; Poser is a perfect way to include 3D character content you're your projects.

Art students looking to gain practical 3D animation experience hone their skills working with Poser characters as part of course work, in art school classes or for extra-curricular experience.

The Print Shop 2.0 is the easiest way to create impressive print projects. Make great-looking greeting cards, calendars, business cards, newsletters, and CD labels. Over a hundred new and improved features are included here, all accessible through a set of powerful yet easy-to-use layout tools. Rulers, grids, guidelines and "snap to" functionality make designing custom projects even easier. The Print Shop 2.0 comes with a free 184-page full color user guide and a bonus Art CD. It's the simple, effective way to create banners, business cards, CD/DVD labels, signs, greeting cards, invitations and more!

FloorPlan 3D combines all the powerful tools that home design professionals employ and integrates them into one easy process.

• Choose plans from the 1,001 provided, or use them as a starting point for your own home or remodel
• Quickly learn how to design like a professional with step-by-step tutorials
• Add personal touches with extensive wall surface and flooring texture libraries
• Design the kitchen of your dreams with the Custom Cabinet Builder and Kitchen Showroom
• Automatic Roof Editor includes shed roofs, cathedral ceilings, and much more
• Multiple views of the same drawing let you work in 2D and see the results in 3D at the same time
• Lets you know when your design ideas have exceeded your initial budget
• Take a stroll through your finished handiwork with Virtual Reality Walkthrough technology
• Design an entire home, addition or remodel in minutes
• Discover the perfect design in the 3D Kitchen Showcase
• Interactive tutorials
• Multiple views including 2D, 3D, and advanced 3D Photorealistic Rendering
• Over 1,000 fully-editable house plans

1 Exterior & Interior Planning

• 1,001 Customizable Plans
• 3D Kitchen Showroom
• Pre-Drawn 3D Symbols

2 Personalize Your Plan

• Texture Library
• Lightworks Photorealistic Rendering
• Custom Cabinet Builder

3 Make Your Plan Reality

• Award-winning 3D Visualization Technology
• Virtual Reality Walkthrough
• Integrated Materials Estimator

System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP
• Pentium class PC
• 64 MB RAM
• 146 MB free hard disk space
• SVGA monitor
• CD-ROM drive
• Internet connection and browser required for online access

Vue 7 Science Fiction includes all the software tools and ready-made content you need to easily create science fiction images and video clips.
Start with a 3D set, customize your scene with built-in science fiction characters, trees, buildings...
Change the weather, adjust the light, choose the best point of view and shoot your picture!

The intuitive 3D interface makes creating science fiction art - or any other form of art - fun and easy!

This box contains: Vue 7 core application + Science Fiction theme pack (Fantasy and Fairy Tale theme packs also available).

What You Can Do with Vue 7 Science Fiction:

- Choose from a wide selection of thousands of built-in items! Create photo-realistic results in Full HD, ready for web or print!
- Build your own custom worlds. Science fiction or not, it's up to you! Where will your imagination take you?
- Grow realistic 3D plants and trees. Quickly replicate objects to create crowds. Build entire forests with just one click!
- Add life to your scenes: load built-in science fiction items, download more from Cornucopia3D or create your own using built-in modeling tools!
- Work with your digital camera - picture yourself anywhere! Add 3D elements to your personal photos (fun buildings, scary aliens, etc)!
- Animate with ease: get ready for the 4th dimension! Everything springs to life: sky, objects, materials, terrains, etc.
- Use the same technologies as top SFX studios in Hollywood blockbusters!

... and a lot more!

Introducing DarkBasic Pro a powerful yet easy to learn programming language for creating games. PC Plus calls DarkBasic Pro "Specifically suited to both new programmers and veterans alike." DarkBasic Pro lets you create ANY type of game with almost any kind of 2D/3D effect and even lets you make games using Quake3 levels. It's that powerful flexible and easy to use. Binary Space Partitioning for fast screen draws Pixel&Vertex shaders for more realistic look Bone based animation support for smooth character movement 2 environment mapping techniques for realistic reflections Multitexturing for more varied and exciting game scenes Light mapping for creating atmospheric shadows Professional Editor (IDE) with Windows XP style controls for quicker programming Particle system that lets you create sparks explosions water or snow Multiple player support for LAN and internet game creation And much much more!System Requirements: IBM PC or 100% compatible computer Intel Pentium II300 or higher processor Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP 64 MB RAM 450 MB hard disk space 4x CD-ROM drive or higher Direct3D compatible graphics card (with 8 MB or above) DirectX compatible sound card Keyboard DirectX 7.0aFormat: WIN 9598ME2000XP Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 708828188886 Manufacturer No: 18888

Poser 7 helps you create more realistic and advanced 3D characters. Output the human figure in multiple styles, as well as in multiple file formats. The all-new character morphing tools aids artists in developing a more impressive, more accurate human figure. Use the Camera controls like a film director -- set up your ideal camera shots for each image or animation frame Realistic Lighting - Add colors, cast shadows, create specific effects, and set the tone for your scene Bone Rigging creates fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps Inverse Kinematics (IK) delivers natural Character motion by modeling the hierarchical interactions of bones and joints New OpenGL Hardware acceleration for scene previews, letting you maximize your rendering time Photo-based facial mapping for lifelike facial modeling and texture maps

Poser 7, the Premiere 3D Figure Design and Animation Software Brings Life to Any Digital Project with 3D Imagery and Animation. Poser is the standard for depicting the human form in 3D. Poser is used for figure design and animation by hobbyists professional graphic artists. Using Poser, digital artists can easily create traditional art, comics, education and training materials, film and television productions, game development projects, illustration and print media, product package design and Web and online media. Anything from Sci-Fi art to storyboards, illustrations to fantasy movies, artists can master the human form and 3D characters to bring "life" to art.

Loaded With Content
Poser has always been jam packed with valuable, ready to use 3D content, and Poser 7 is loaded to the brim! Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures. Sydney and Simon are complete with animated poses, still poses, full body morphs, facial expressions and morphs, hair, clothing, light sets, and more.

Jam-Packed With Content

Poser 7 also features:

• Exclusive 3rd party content from RuntimeDNA, Meshbox Designs, Netherworks, Vanishing Point and more;
• New wildlife including an eagle, wolf and others
• Extensive updates to the Poser Child figures with new morphs, textures and rigging
• New Motion Capture Data, Light Sets, Poses and Materials
• G2 Male, Female figures
• Forest and Plants by RuntimeDNA
• RoboShark by VanishingPoint

Lip Syncing Functionality

New Lip Syncing Features
Add incredible realism to your animations with new lip syncing functionality in Poser 7! Talking is one of the most challenging tasks in character animation, and using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! With Talk Designer, you have the power to control the type and level of emotion, enunciation, and head and eye movement including the figure's blink rate. Import a sound file and Poser 7 will automatically animate your figure's lip, eye and head movements to match!

Whether you are a seasoned professional or are just learning how to animate, now you can create movies or flash animations with characters that speak to add a whole new dimension of realism to your art. Talk Designer will work with many e frontier figures, including Sydney and Simon, the new Poser 7 figures, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures. Third party content creators will be able to provide configuration files that make any viseme-equipped* figures Talk Designer compatible!

* Visemes are the visual representations of phonemes.

Multiple Undo and Redo

The Power of Multiple Undos
Give your creativity and productivity a boost with Multiple Undo and Redo in Poser 7 ! Freely explore poses, morph target changes, and body transformations without worrying about making mistakes or having to save multiple versions of your project at every new turn. In Poser 7, you can return to earlier poses and designs, and can step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Even steps you couldn't previously back out are now undoable. Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.

Faster Rendering and HDRI Support
Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering on machines with multiple CPUs. FireFly takes advantage of the processing power of the multi-core and multi-processor systems available on the market by rendering on up to four threads simultaneously. This optimization results in much shorter render times for most scenes.

Render more complex scenes than ever with new Tiled Texture Loading. Texture memory needs at render time are reduced to less than 10% (compared to previous versions for texture-heavy scenes)! Hard disk caching results in greatly reduced memory requirements. FireFly's tiled texture loading system also takes advantage of a new Texture Filtering approach, which uses a fraction of the memory of its predecessor. Create even more realistic images with HDRI! Poser now supports High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI) for Image Based Lighting and textures, giving you rendered lighting quality comparable to analog photo film!

Poser 7 Delivers More Render Performance

• Render in a Separate Process: FireFly now has the option to run in a separate process from the application, which can yield performance advantages when rendering highly complex scenes. FireFly also lets your system manage memory more efficiently and provides better system stability due to the separation of rendering tasks.
• Speed up Ambient Occlusion calculations with virtually no compromise on quality using the new Irradiance Caching feature. You can configure Irradiance Caching for draft (optimized for speed) versus final (optimized for quality) renders.
• Save more rendering time with Occlusion Culling, which enables FireFly to improve render performance by ignoring invisible scene elements at render time.
• Benefit from faster Raytracing with FireFly's new kd-tree Ray Accelerator, which improves raytracing performance in densely populated scenes.
• Take advantage of Poser 7's improved Depth of Field calculation to generate superior results in less time.

Animation Layers

Non-Linear Animation and Animation Layers
Create superior movies using Poser 7's new Non-Linear Animation! Now you can use Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out! At playback Poser seamlessly compiles all the separate layers into a single, cohesive animation! Animation layers are supported by a variety of Poser's animation tools, such as the Walk Designer and Talk Designer, as well as the content Library, making it simple to organize and even reuse various portions of your animations.

Make your characters walk and talk, and even chew gum at the same time while keeping every strand of animation flexible! Using layers to combine animations makes it all easy and intuitive - since you are blending different layers of animation, you can combine different actions. Click and drag layers horizontally to have your animation building blocks start earlier or later in time. To help you organize your animations, Include in Playback allows you to hide or include layers when viewing the entire animation. Your creativity is the only limit to what you can create with layered, non-linear animation!

Poser 7 Delivers More Animation Strength

• Manipulate the visibility of individual objects within your scene, making them appear or disappear gradually or in an instant, all by simply adjusting a parameter dial with Poser 7's new Visibility Channel.
• Accomplish more with Poser 7's enhanced PoserPython scripting environment:
  • The new folder-driven Scripts menu on main menu bar makes it easy to expand, manage and use your Python script collection.
  • The scripting interface has been enhanced to give you more control.
  • The Python runtime is updated to Python 2.4
  • Poser 7 now supports the Tkinter GUI toolkit for Mac OS X 10.4 (not 10.3).

Powerful Morphing Tools

Morphing Tool
Add a whole new level of detail to your Poser 7 scenes using new brush-like morphing tools! The new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily "paint" dimples, moles or creases on your figures with simple strokes, just like you would with any brush tool. Use custom morph targets to create even more dynamic facial expressions; to change the appearance of bodies; to pull conforming clothing out past protruding body parts; to improve cloth simulation results; and for a wide variety of other uses as well.

Using the new morphing tools, selected areas or single points of the mesh can be pushed or pulled, smoothed or restored. Start by selecting the size of the area that you want to modify using the Radius control - small for detail work and large for broader changes. Choose from five brush styles that vary in falloff (how the change blends toward the edge of the selected area), from a very soft brush that blends gradually toward the edge to a crisp brush that affects the entire area the same way.

You can also define the magnitude of your changes, whether they accumulate or cap at a certain size, and if they act on a specific point or stroke like a brush tool. Make your changes either in surface mode, which will modify the mesh along the direction of surface normals, or in screen mode, which will allow deformations in any direction you wish.

When you are done, save your morphed Poser 7 figures into the library for later use. You don't have to be an expert to take your scenes to a whole new level, using Poser's intuitive morph target creation tools!

Universal Poses

Universal Poses
Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results! To save time, you can even take legacy poses from earlier versions of Poser and resave them to the Poser 7 Library, which will automatically convert them to Universal Poses!

Poser 7 Delivers More Control
Flexibly increase or reduce the value of any parameter in your scene with Dependent Parameters. Using Dependent Parameters in your files allows you to modify multiple morph targets, deformers or any other parameter using a single, master parameter dial. Now with Poser 7, you have much greater control in defining the ways that your parameters interact as your figure is adjusted.

Organize your content better using Content Collections. Poser 7's new Content Collections allow you to easily organize your Poser content from any Runtime Library or category into a single collection, giving you instant access to your favorite content without having to change Library categories.

The new Runtime Selection pop-up menu allows you to easily switch between different Runtime Libraries, without having to navigate through the Library folder hierarchy. Poser's Library palette now also displays your current Runtime Library name so you always know where you are.

Replacing light sets is a mouse click away. Now you can add or replace a light set within your scene with a single click.

Z-Buffer Actor Selection allows you to select obscured body parts without even having to move your mouse. This is particularly helpful when posing hands, in other instances where body parts are grouped closely together, or when two figures are within proximity.

Poser 7 Delivers More

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• Enjoy much more realistic scene previews. Improved preview texture resolution leverages the power of your graphics hardware to give you up to 4096x4096 pixel texture previews that show amazing detail - that's up to 16 times more detailed than Poser 6!
• Focus on creativity, not repetition, with new workflow improvements:
  • Easily populate your scene with identical, yet independent figures. Now you can duplicate selected objects (with animation) and save time without the tedious process of having to individually configure each object in your scene.
  • Save animated poses with walk paths or full body morphs directly into your library. In Poser 7, you can now store figure transformation and/or full body morph target settings in a pose
• If you are new to Poser, new training resources provided in Poser 7 will get you started quickly. In addition to the Poser 7 Reference and Tutorial Manuals, on-screen step-by-step interactive tutorials will guide you through many Poser basics. The new Quick Start dialog gives you access to a number of different projects that can be viewed through the Project Guide palette. Learning at your own pace, you will be led through each step in your project, and have access to "watch-me" videos with detailed visual explanations of individual tasks.
• More workflow improvements are included in Poser 7 too:
  • Design or animate from any combination of angles with custom cameras. Now you can create new cameras in addition to the default set, choose whether they are revolving or dolly style, and view your scene any way you choose.
  • Work on the details in your design with precision and ease. Poser's orthographic cameras (top, front, right, etc.) are now easier to use and more exact.
  • Save time, directly create and add all light types to your scene with just two mouse clicks
• Get a real sense of what your final result will look like as you work, without having to render your scene! Poser 7's Procedural Shader Preview can display the results of most procedural shader effects in the Preview window. Enable Hardware Shading on systems with high-performance graphics hardware.
• Import your textures and images in modern formats. Poser 7 now supports HDR and EXR formats for import of high dynamic range bitmap images, as well as many other modern formats.
• Choose how you want to locate an object's associated files. Poser 7's Configurable File Search includes three levels of depth, Deep (for most extensive), Shallow or None, to give you the results you want -- fast or comprehensive.

The Print Shop Deluxe 20 Suite delivers thousands of irresistible project ideas including greeting cards, calendars, photo projects, crafts and so much more. Enliven your creations with a huge array of exciting design elements like premium artwork and photos, expressive fonts and eye-catching headlines. Personalize your projects the way you want!

Windows95/Win3.1

The simplified drag-and-drop interface puts the 3-D power you need at your fingertips. Drag objects into the window, and drop textures onto them. Add lights and cameras to a scene the same way. You can even add automatic animation behaviors through simple drag and drop. Modeling wizards walk you through 3-D object creation step by step. You can model like a pro by allowing the modeling wizard to guide you.

Create entire 3-D scenes and worlds through a few simple clicks of the mouse. No longer will you have to deal with the "blank canvas fear," because the scene wizard will direct you through choices in lighting, backgrounds, objects, and more. Within minutes you can create 3-D masterpieces.

Ray Dream 3D includes over 750 Dream Models. These are high-quality models in nearly every category you can imagine. Use the models as they are, or add your own touch by changing the texture or the size. You can even take the model apart and see each piece. Every piece may be completely customized and animated. In addition, the product includes hundreds of beautiful textures and light and camera presets.

Animation is easy with Ray Dream 3D. You can drag and drop behaviors like spinning or bouncing onto an object, and the objects are automatically animated. Complete frame control is also available. Any changes you make to a model can be automatically recorded to occur over time. Preview or play back animations using simple VCR-like controls.

Ray Dream 3D supports all of the most popular graphics file formats. Save animations as QuickTime or AVI movies. Output sequenced GIF files for animation on the Web. Ray Dream 3D outputs finished files in the most popular graphics and movie formats.

You can render 3-D files using your choice of renderer, including ray tracing. In addition you can render both images and animations in artistic hand-drawn styles such as cartoons, paintings, and sketches using the natural-media renderer.

With each new release of Photoshop, Adobe manages both to satisfy the expectations of existing users and to pull a few magic features out of its hat. Version 6 is no exception. Powerful vector editing and masking, improved layer controls, layer styles, incredible typographic control, new Web publishing tools, and a cleaner, more accessible interface are already making version 5.5, itself a groundbreaker, look like ancient history.

Photoshop's new vector features provide even more control when compositing photographic images. You can use the vector drawing tools simply to create polygons and custom shapes, but they can also act as layer clipping paths--vector masks that hide or reveal image areas in underlying layers.

Editable layer effects such as drop shadow and glow were introduced in version 5.5; in version 6, they have been renamed layer styles. New options include satin, stroke and color, gradient, and pattern overlay. The layer styles dialogue box provides much more control--bevel and emboss has five style options, as well as adjusters for technique, depth, direction, size, soften, angle, attitude, gloss, contour, highlight mode, opacity--and that's not all of them. As the name suggests, layer styles can easily be saved and applied to other layers.

You can enter and edit text directly onto the layer and set style attributes from the new tool options bar. Photoshop 6 seems to have benefited from some of InDesign's superb typographic tools, with character and paragraph palettes providing precise control. Web imaging tools have been revamped, with layer-based slicing now available from within Photoshop itself, and a major overhaul of ImageReady introducing weighted optimization, rollover styles, and tweened animation.

If you want the best image editing software that money can buy, look no further. --Ken McMahon

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 software introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering a broad and productive tool set, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media. Combine vector drawing tools and new layer design features that greatly enhance your creative options, output razor-sharp text and shapes from Photoshop, and take advantage of an expanded web tool kit that includes the new ImageReady 3.0 software for advanced web processing. Use text warping and image distortion tools to manipulate and experiment. Photoshop's time-saving features help you break new ground and still beat your deadlines. Master the power of Photoshop faster with user-interface enhancements that help you to get to work quickly and make it easy to take full advantage of the comprehensive tool set.

Micrografx offers its ABC Graphics Suite, an impressive set of 32-bit graphics programs. It is designed to work seamlessly with the applications in Microsoft Office. Tools are familiar and easy to find and identify, so even novices can start using the programs immediately. Even though ABC Graphics is designed for Microsoft Office users, experienced graphic designers will find tools and capabilities that rival other popular graphics programs. ABC Graphics Suite consists of four award-winning applications.??ABC FlowCharter is an easy-to-use module for creating diagrams, flow charts, and organization charts. Micrografx Designer is a full-featured drawing program for creating and editing vector-based graphics and text. ABC Media Manager is an easy-to-learn program for managing your clip art as well as the images that come with the suite. Picture Publisher is a powerful image-editing program for painting, transforming, and retouching bitmap-based photos and pictures.

Create Stunning 3D Interiors in Minutes. Ever wonder how your home would look with new furniture, different window treatments and an exciting color scheme? Now it's easy to visulaize and create beautiful interiors for every room in your house using over 100,000 quality brand-name appliances, furniture items, window and floor coverings, and accessories. Shop for new furnishings right on your home PC, then arrange them with a click of the mouse. Even if you're a beginner, you'll find 3D Home Interior an amazing tool for planning and designing your next home decorating project. The reults will be spectacular.

Autodesk Mudbox 2009 digital sculpting and painting software gives artists the freedom to create 3D digital artwork as if they were working with clay and paint. Designed by professional artists in the film, game, and design industries, Mudbox combines a highly intuitive interface with a powerful toolset of stencils and brushes for creating ultrarealistic models and environments.

Designed by industry professionals who understand how you work, Autodesk Mudbox 2009 software is a highly intuitive 3D digital sculpting and texture painting solution. Click to enlarge.

Whether you're a seasoned 3D professional, an artist who works with traditional media, an amateur enthusiast, or a 2D graphic designer or illustrator looking to add 3D to your workflow, Mudbox is what you need to add a whole new dimension to your creativity.

"The introduction of Autodesk Mudbox 2009 sparks a revolution in computer graphics tools, bringing about a paradigm shift in how designers and artists do their work." -- Habib Zargarpour, Senior Art Director, Electronic Arts

Hit the road to freedom
Mudbox gives artists the ability to create without worrying about the technical details. Sculpt and paint as fast as you think. With its friendly user interface, Mudbox can be easily used by both traditional and digital artists.

Welcome to the age of digital sculpting and 3D painting
There was a day when design ideas were visualized through a physical model fabricated or sculpted from materials such as metal, paper, wood, or clay. There was a day when digital artists worked in 2D. That time is over. Meet Mudbox.

Brush based digital sculpting
With Mudbox you can digitally sculpt ultrarealistic 3D models with incredible detail--down to the pores on a character's skin--with easy-to-use, high-quality sculpting tools, stamps, and stencils. Choose from an extensive list of brushes, or quickly tailor them to fit your project's particular needs.

Mudbox features an artist-friendly user interface (UI) and high quality, interactive display. Click to enlarge.

Choose from a number of base brush types: sculpt brush, flatten brush, wax brush, or create your own. Click to enlarge.

If you are new to 3D, you can use one of the simple built-in primitive shapes, such as a sphere, as a starting point for creating organic forms. Artists already familiar with 3D software may want to begin their designs in a 3D application like Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, or Autodesk Softimage, and then bring them into Mudbox to refine the shape and add depth and texture. The Mudbox interface will be familiar to artists who already know these tools.

Texture painting
Rotate your model to apply paint precisely where you want, no matter how complex the surface. Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.

What you visualize is what they'll see
The real-time rendering effects in Mudbox enable you to see your work in progress from any angle. When you're done, use Mudbox to show it off to clients, co-workers, or friends.

"In my line of work, with the stakes extremely high, either your model is unquestionably real or it's a failure. There's no second chance, no 'nice try.' Mudbox 2009, with its smooth, high-fidelity brush set, image-based lighting, real-time shadows, and nondestructive layer system wrapped in a clean UI, ensures that I hit my mark 100 percent of the time." -- Dan Platt, Senior Modeler/Organic Model Lead, Digital Domain

From 2D to 3D
It's never been easier to add a whole new dimension to your creativity. Adding Mudbox to your current 2D workflow frees you from the creative limitations associated with traditional photography, 2D software, hand illustration, and other traditional graphic design methods.

While the tools themselves will feel familiar to those who sculpt with clay, the Mudbox workflow offers the advantages of digital creative tools, such as Adobe Photoshop software, including the ability to organize your work using layers, mirror or flip them, and nondestructively edit your 3D models.

Let your inner child come out and play
When was the last time you played with Play-Doh? It's time to try it again (minus the funny smell)! Mudbox guarantees hours of guilt-free fun--you're on a computer, so you must be working, right? After all, Mudbox is a work tool used by major film, TV, and games studios to create 3D characters and environments.

Apply paint precisely where you want, regardless of surface complexity. Paint multiple textures across multiple high resolution maps. Click to enlarge.

Use high dynamic range (HDR) images for custom lighting effects. Click to enlarge.

Mudbox has a layer system (similar to Photoshop) to help artists manage and experiment more easily with various sculpting and painting effects and organize their work. Click to enlarge.

Ideal for:

• 3D artists
• 2D artists
• Fine artists
• Web and multimedia professionals
• Traditional sculptors
• Students

Applications:

• Web and multimedia content
• Film
• Games
• Television products
• Design--automotive, consumer goods, industrial, architectural
• Advertising
• Product packaging
• Illustration (classic, medical, or scientific)

Features

What's Included

Documentation and Learning:

• Learning movies --Watch these movies to learn the essential skills to work in Mudbox.
• QuickStart tutorial--Learn the basics of sculpting and painting in this step-by-step lesson.
• Online documentation--The fully searchable online HTML-based help system includes user guides, tool references, and best practices.

Community:
The AREA, a community for Autodesk Media & Entertainment products. Access free tutorials, downloads or interact with fellow users in discussion forums and see the multitude of talent from around the globe. Directly connect with industry professionals through blogs--more at area.autodesk.com.

Detailed features

IMPORTANT: Please read the System Requirements. As new hardware is added on an on-going basis, please also visit Autodesk's updated requirements.

User Interface
Become productive in hours, rather than weeks, with the intuitive Mudbox user interface.

• For traditional artists with no previous 3D experience, tools that closely mimic the behavior of their real-world counterparts are quickly understood and easily adopted.
• Work with tools such as brushes, stamps, and stencils to quickly sculpt and create lifelike textures.
• Use the Layer Editor to organize your work.
• Maximize your workspace by hiding UI elements and using standard hotkeys to manipulate the camera.

Mudbox can be used with a standard mouse but it is Ideal for use with a Wacom Cintiq interactive pen display, or Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet.

Mudbox provides interactive lighting and shadows that enable you to see and develop your work under "real" viewing conditions. Click to enlarge.

Visualize your model under different daylight conditions. Click to enlarge.

Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes. Details can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps. Click to enlarge.

Cameras
Mudbox features innovative, accelerated camera manipulation, for excellent interactive performance with even the densest meshes.

• Use multiple real-time cameras within a scene, including true perspective and orthographic cameras.
• Bookmark your camera positions.
• Model using reference images: each camera has its own image plane.
• Use Smart Focus to position the camera based on the cursor position and brush size.
• Manipulate your camera with trackball-style controls.
• Use the same keyboard shortcuts for Mudbox cameras as those that are used for cameras in Autodesk Maya software.

Display
Work interactively in an environment in which high-res 3D models retain their subtlety, realism, and detail.

• Apply one or more image maps to any object, independent of the other objects in the scene.
• Use smooth shading mode to get a display more representative of the limit surface.
• Interactively view multiple texture channels (including bump and reflection) at the same time.
• Interactively view multiple maps and multiple materials in the scene.
• Work in real time with models that properly display advanced lighting (including HDRI-based lighting) and shadows.
• Incorporate advanced display options into your presentation, including ambient occlusion, depth of field, and tone mapping.

Sculpt Layers
Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers.

• Mirror or flip the detail stored in one or more layers.
• Edit nondestructively: Mudbox delivers paintable masks.
• Quickly duplicate, merge, flatten, and reorder layers.
• Precisely blend layers using interactive multiplier sliders and layer masks.
• Use layers to store libraries of morph targets.

Advanced Digital Sculpting
High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves let you quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision.

3D Brushes

• Use intelligently designed default brushes or quickly tailor them for custom behavior and performance.
• Choose from a number of base brush types, including
  • Sculpt brush--enables you to create complex forms with great control
  • Flatten brush--enables you to quickly create planes and wipe away detail
  • Wax brush--enables you to easily fill in area
• Accurately shape your brush tips with falloff curves and stamps. A sharp falloff curve will cut an accurate, sharp stroke into the geometry with no soft stroke profiles.

Workflow

• Sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical models simultaneously--even when they are in an asymmetrical pose--with the powerful tangent space mirroring functionality.
• Use curves as guides for brush strokes.
• Use image stamps to quickly brush (in 3D) a detailed texture directly into your mesh.
• Quickly add high-quality detail through mesh displacement. Use 8-, 16-, or 32-bit images to displace your mesh; Mudbox even supports displacement using multiple maps at one time.

Texture Painting and Assignment
Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models.

• Apply detail precisely where required, regardless of UV distortion or surface complexity. In the Mudbox 3D Paint mode, the brush position relative to the model is calculated in true world space; paint is projected tangent to the model. 3D painting is integrated with the familiar stamps and stencils workflow.
• Selectively paint reference images onto the model from a particular viewpoint. Using the new Projection brush, you can project paint onto the model from screen space.
• Paint hero characters with ease: Mudbox supports the painting of multiple maps on multiple meshes.
• Paint both sides of your model simultaneously with the familiar symmetry workflow.
• Paint and display a different texture for each UV square unit tile.
• Use the intuitive layer editor to easily manage multiple paint layers. You can select, blend, and organize several images for each texture channel.

Texture Baking
With its robust texture baking capabilities, Mudbox solves one of the most common bottlenecks in production pipelines: baking of normal and displacement maps.

• Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes. Detail can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps.
• Generate smooth, high-quality maps using extraction options designed to address issues related to poly faceting by extracting between the limit surfaces of the given meshes.
• Displace your meshes using multiple floating point maps.
• Bake normal maps that are compatible with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software.

General Workflow
Mudbox performance is renowned, with tools organized in a familiar, intuitive manner.

• Work in real time even on 3D models that are fully subdivided into tens of millions of high-quality polygons.
• Manipulate the camera using conventional camera controls--to maximize your workspace and reduce "back and forth" workflows.
• Streamline your workflow through tools such as the Hover Pick functionality and hotkeys.
• Use asymmetrical mirroring to streamline the process of working on posed or asymmetrical models.
• Work on one mesh in the context of others: Mudbox supports multiple meshes within the scene.
• Use the built-in image browser--with full support for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images--to view reference images and quickly assign them to stamps, stencils, or camera image planes.

Connectivity and Integration
Mudbox works well with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, as well as with other 3D software applications, making it a natural choice for experienced artists.

Integration with Autodesk Maya 2009 and Autodesk 3ds Max 2009
Autodesk Mudbox provides enhanced interoperability with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max through improved matching of Maya and 3ds Max normal and displacement maps. Additionally, Mudbox employs, by default, the same keyboard shortcuts as Autodesk Maya for camera manipulation.

Supported Formats
Scene Import	OBJ
Scene Export	OBJ
Texture Import	BMP, EXR, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF
Bitmap Output	BMP, EXR, JPEG, PNG, TIF. Some formats applicable to certain renderers only.

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