Adobe Systems Inc., Voice 888-724-4508, http://www.adobe.com
Add pizazz to film, video, multimedia, and the Web with this powerful motion graphics and visual effects package. This industry favorite will allow you to create complex special effects, sophisticated graphic animations, and more. You can animate Photoshop layers and Illustrator art in 3D space. This latest version adds native support for Mac OS X, Colored Shadows and Projection layers, eight new effects, multiple comp views, an advanced 3D renderer, adjustment lights, an effects palette, and more. Requires a Power Mac running Mac OS 9.1-9.x or Mac OS X 10.1 and later, 128MB RAM, and 120MB free hard disk space.
This “art synthesizer” allows anyone to create vibrant images, psychedelic animations, and exciting sounds without having to be an experienced graphic designer or musician. It combines fractal and fractal-like images, random textures, gradients, displacement maps, and tiles, while automatically generating sounds from ArtMatic’s mathematical structures. Whip up your own creative concoction using a variety of customizable parameters or click on the Randomize All button to let ArtMatic generate works of art all on its own. Requires a Power Mac running Mac OS 8.1 or later, 32MB RAM, and QuickTime 3 or later.
This powerful, yet easy-to-use 2D drafting and technical illustration package will not only appeal to career architects and engineers, it may motivate afficionados of structural design to drum up their own creations as well. If you’re looking for a program that fully supports AutoCAD and is compatible with many Windows-based CAD apps, give this one a try. This newly improved and enhanced version features a full complement of drawing tools, ANSI and international standard dimensioning capabilities, associative dimensioning, DWG and DXF file support, and runs natively on OS X. Requires a Power Mac, Mac OS 7.6-9.x or OS X and later, and 20MB free hard disk space.
NIN: And All That Could Have Been—Trailer
Nine Inch Nails/Nothing Records, http://www.nin.com/macaddict
For Wacom tablet users. This collection of professional, pen-sensitive, Photoshop plug-in tools is great for image-editing and design work. It allows you to precisely apply and control image effects based on the nuance and inflection of your hand movements. You’ll be able to push pixels in your photos as if they were putty, chisel into images with your own 3D sculpting tool, wield a digital airbrush, and more. This package also contains tutorials to help you sharpen your image-editing skills. Requires a Power Mac, Mac OS 7-9.x, 16MB RAM, a Wacom Drawing Tablet, and Wacom Mac Driver 2.5.5 or later.
Take any static object and create realistic motion animation with this realtime simulator. ReelMotion uses physics and collision detection to animate 3D objects, such as cars, planes, motorcycles, and helicopters, through a 3D scene in no time. The program features simulators that allow you to do such things as drive, fly, climb, roll, bounce, and smash any object, and have a camera capture and render the scene. Requires a Power Mac, Mac OS 7.6.1 or later, and 16MB RAM.
