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Design, rendering and animation software.
MANY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE company Curious Labs, but probably few know that e frontier acquired the company in November 2003, although it still operates as Curious Labs. The company recently introduced a family of products called Shade 7. It includes Shade Designer LE, an entry-level version; Shade Standard, an all-in-one 3D graphics suite for designers, illustrators and graphic artists; and Shade Professional, which offers advanced modeling and rendering for architects and design professionals. This month, Cadalyst Labs looks at Shade 7 Standard.
Shade 7 Standard presents a clean, simple interface with an easily understandable menu structure. The application is quite capable for desiqn, rendering and animation, and offers a rich feature set. Among the niceties is its ability to import Adobe Illustrator designs and export to Adobe Photoshop for final composition.
Users can access advanced Boolean and polygon modeling tools to detail designs, and the incorporated TextEffector includes TrueType and PostScript Type 1...