Shade Professional – Ideal solution for broadcast ready 3D art and animation

Shade Professional brings together advanced 3D modeling, rendering and animation into an integrated, flexible suite on Mac OS X and Windows. Use Shade as a complete, standalone tool set, or as a key design tool in your existing workflow.

Shade Standard includes 2 GB of tutorials, materials and scene data to help you get started in 3D.

Creating a model or a finished, rendered image or animation takes time. Every feature of Shade lets you work faster to produce high resolution, high quality art and animation. You can accomplish so many things with Shade Standard:

• Precision curved surface modeling, boolean, generate models from photos or illustrations
• Give your models multi-layered materials and unlimited maps
• Utilize displacement maps, normal maps, subsurface scattering and other professional features
• Shade lighting supports volumetric lighting to create well lit, natural illumination
• Render your scenes with breathtaking radiosity, global illumination
• Share your models using OBJ, COLLADA or export as Second Life prims

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.