Installing Maya (Mac OSX) The installation procedure is fairly self-explanatory. If you are installing Maya 5.0 for the first time, double-click installMaya and follow the on-screen instructions.  If a version of Maya 5.0 is already...

A fun drawing and animation program with many built-in backgrounds and clip-art. Object-oriented so things are (re)moveable.  Sound effect can be added as well as recording your own

Adobe GroundZero 1.0 is the pre-releasee codename for Adobe Imagestyler .  It was intended for use in conjunction with Flash for web development. (Thanks to klnnurv for clarying this.)  

Color It! 4.0 is the fourth major release of the well known 90's drawing app for Mac.  

Designer's Studio (a.k.a. D' Studio in short) is an awesome, and altough unofficial, very complete Kaleidoscope scheme maker/editor.  As a shareware, D' Studio was the very first Kaleidoscope scheme editor to even appear on the...

Imagine if Painter were a vector-based instead of a pixel-based program. Fractal claims that's what Expression is: an infinitely scaleable Painter. To some degree they're right, but unfortunately, not enough. Expression is a natural-media...

All you have to do is choose your favorite combination of sky, ground, and mountains to create exquisite natural and supernatural landscapes in KPT Bryce, an easy-to-use terrain-generation tool. With an interface long on high-quality pictures and...

Aldus FreeHand 5.0 compiled in december 1994, right before the rights were sold to Macromedia.   It's an application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and...

Good old ClarisWorks. Better in one significant way than MS-Office: there is a 'drawing' style document which is effectively a page layout tool similar to MS-Publisher, but actually usable. Perfectly serviceable office suite including...

Everybody knows what Adobe Photoshop is, but Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is the last version that could run under Mac OS 9.  Since Adobe Photoshop 7 was Carbonized, it was also ready to run under Mac OS X. Photoshop 6 addressed nearly all of the...

Popular 3D landscape creation software.  Export options include HTML image-mapped links, RealPlayer movies, VRML and QTVR. Bryce 4 is dedicated to designing, rendering and animating breathtaking natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D...

You'll swear it's the 60s again. PixelToy is one of those rare programs that defies easy categorization — it creates unique, vivid special effects which can incorporate animated text, images, sound waves, and more. You can use...

The Mac hosts only a few professional-level 3D animation apps — four, to be exact — and one of the most capable is Maxon’s Cinema 4D XL. Like its main rival, NewTek’s LightWave..., Cinema 4D XL is designed for serious artists...

A very simple, straight forward program for creating little animations. The name says it all. First software I ever used at a graphics academy in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Normally working with 8- and 16mm filmcamera's for animation, it felt...