Bryce 2 is a stand-alone application that offers a revolutionary new way to design and render breathtaking natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D sculptures with unprecedented power and ease. Bryce puts the power of high-end workstations into user's...

Sculpt 3D is the Macintosh port of the first Amiga raytracing 3D app of the same name. Despite excellent modeling and rendering tools, Sculpt 3Ds price and arcane interface have limited its appeal to a loyal following of industrial designers...

Few 3D applications are as highly regarded as Electric Image Universe. The latest release, version 4.0, offers Mac OS X compatibility, vastly improved character-animation tools, and new rendering features such as global illumination. Capable of...

An integrated, computer-aided engineering package that turns a Macintosh or a Lisa into an engineering workstation for digital circuit design. The program enables you to produce professional-quality schematics and provides complete fault and logic...

Rayshade is a program for creating ray-traced images. It reads a description of a scene to be rendered and produces a colour image corresponding to the description. Rayshade was designed to make it easy to create nice pictures. It was also meant to...

Director 8 received rave reviews when it debuted, including one from us... and though the half-step up to version 8.5 may have you thinking “maintenance upgrade,” 8.5 is anything but. 3D for the Web is a reality — if you’re...

What’s faster than a barreling tyrannosaur, more powerful than the Force, and able to render complex 3D models in a single pass? The mighty Electric Image Animation System (EIAS), of course. Now dubbed Electric Image Universe, this well-known...

For less than $900, graphics professionals can explore the world of 3-D design with a package that rivals high-end 3-D software. Infini-D. the latest entry in the burgeoning 3-D-design software arena, is a modeler, renderer, and animator that offers...

Among 3-D design and visualization programs, Infini-D has garnered praise for its good balance of modeling, rendering, and animation tools. I’ve had occasion to say so my self. But I've also noted that the program was a weak modeler. Well,...

The 3D composition and rendering program, including different modelling techniqies, e.g. primitive, metaball, polygon, transformation tools. Materials support is nice. DEMO VERSION - has some 10-seconds waiting before file operations and is a...

We’ve all known geeky types who are achingly brilliant one moment, stunningly stupid the next. It’s like that with Carrara, Metacreations’ new 3D modeling and animation app. Just when its many excellent features have honestly...

When we first reviewed Pixels:3D at version 3.0, we thought it had enormous promise. Its unique shading and scripting abilities impressed us; however, some odd, cumbersome interface choices held it back. Pixels:3D 3.6 has shed much — though...

Virtus WalkThrough is a powerful modeling and visualization package lhai takes the concept of virtual reality from esoteric experiment to practical tool. Virtual reality makes it possible to explore worlds and interiors dial exist only in the mind...

Originally developed as a way for artists to visualize figures and props for flat, 2D digital artwork, Poser 4.0 has morphed into a complete 3D modeling and animation package. Though you shouldn’t expect to sit down with Poser 4.0 and crank...