Products: Curious Labs

Simple Modeling and Rendering

Trying to find a low-cost 3D graphics app with intuitive Bézier curve/surface modeling, animation, polygon mesh modeling, and a global illumination renderer?

Curious Labs has it. Shade, now in version 7, provides quick 3D design generation, modeling, and rendering. The program was initially released in Japan in 1986, and it now has 200,000 enthusiastic users worldwide who share designs and models. Haven't heard about it? No wonder, as this is the first version that's available in English.

There's a wide range of design tools, advanced Boolean modeling, keyframe-based animation, and an integrated set of plug-ins to add detail to projects. The rendering engine is potent, offering choices that include global illumination, photon mapping, path tracing, raytracing, and radiosity. www.curiouslabs.com