Autodesk 3ds Max
The best known application for 3D modeling, animation and rendering, which offers a variety of professional tools for creating attractive visual effects, video editing, scene composition and post-production. Because of its capabilities and quality modeling results it is used in the film industry for creating realistic visual effects, and it is indispensable in the industry of computer games.
Autodesk 3ds Max is currently the most widely used professional program for digital animation, three-dimensional (3D) modeling and rendering. Designed to meet the most choosey artists, 3D Studio Max opens the possibility of integration in the process of video production (non-linear editing: jingles, music videos, movies...) and the final visualization of finished CAD projects (materials, rendering, animation...).
Basic features and improvements:
- Precise texture mapping
- - Advanced particle system
- - Reactor 2 dynamics simulation of structures
- - Vertex Paint allows drawing directly on the 3D model
- - Control of the camera makes it easy to edit recorded and rendered video clips
- - Fast scan-line rendering supports photo-realistic lighting
- - High quality Mental Ray rendering, support for network rendering...
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