animation business / commercial software for mac

Animation:Master 14.0 is a solution for designing 3D pictures and animation at home or in the studio. This remarkable program includes everything you need to create fabulous computer graphics; including complete sculpting features, powerful animation tools, superb rendering, and all this is compatible with the most popular computers (PC and Macintosh!)

"Animation:Master" gives both beginning and advanced animators the ability to tell their stories. Remarkably, wrapped into one interface are advanced features like inverse kinematics, ray-tracing, image mapping, and modeling of complex organic and mechanical objects. The revolutionary patch-based technology makes it easy to create natural, fluid-moving characters, scenery, and props.

"Animation:Master", the 3D motion picture studio is the most powerful and affordable spline based modeling and animation program available. Specifically designed for classic character animation, the drag and drop, customizable interface and powerful motion tools give you the control that is required to tell your story.

Since A:M is geared toward character animation, it gives you the ability to build libraries of actions and characters that can be reused over and over. Its cross platform compatibility? makes A:M an excellent choice for studios with multiple types of systems.

Animation Principles 1.0 is a highly-efficient, high-quality workshop that contains movie-based tutorials and example files that you can try at your own pace.

Understanding the mechanics of Flash 5 will allow anyone to create moving artwork, but that doesn't automatically make everyone a 'skilled' animator. This CD covers the underlying principles of animation and how to add them to your Flash work. Chris begins with the simplest principles of animation like speed, timing, squash and stretch, anticipation, bounce, and gravity, then progresses into the analysis of physical effects and natural phenomena.

Examples of Flash animation are broken down into single frames revealing what it takes to create realistic motion for sparks, drips, water, lightning, and explosions. 'Straight ahead' drawing is explained and demonstrated, and some of Chris's 'visual music' pieces are shown. Approximately 2 hours.

SimplEquations 1.0.2 offers a potential and easy to use software for teaching and learning of linear equations with one unknown. Tutorial with animation for easy understanding. Can generate hundreds of sums (up to 200 per session). Ideal for improvement through drills. Users can select the level of difficulty and type of sums e.g. sums with fractions, decimals, etc. Marks automatically and can print a detailed report after each session.

I Can Animate 1.4 is such a powerful application which helps you create stunning movies using a variety of animation techniques. I Can Animate allows you to work with different video layers so that you can create an animation from video captured from a camera, pictures you have drawn yourself or both together. All this in one single application. Integrates fully with QT and iMovie. Probably the most powerful and functional animation application now available. Full support and integartion for QT and iMovie.

Animations can now be filmed in a fraction of time with the additional powerful functions found in I Can Animate, Create and duplicate mutliple clips and frames, copy and reverse frames and groups of frames, mix drawn and 'claymation together in a single movie. Multiple frame onion skinning, preview clips and frames and export as an iMovie project.