The most recent Animation & 3D articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Serif Drawplus X2 vector graphics

Cliff Joseph — 2007-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Friday 14 September 2007 at 00:00:00

Veteran illustration program gains improved animation and drawing tools

Recent upgrades to Serif's veteran drawing program have moved away from traditional vector graphics tools, into areas such as the 'natural media' paintbrush styles that appeared in Drawplus 8 in...

Review: DX Studio 2 3D authoring

Ken McMahon — 2007-05-29T00:00:00.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 29 May 2007 at 00:00:00

Create 3D games and interactive applications

DX Studio is an authoring environment for creating interactive 3D applications. It consists of a DirectX real-time 3D engine and a suite of editing tools....

Review: Reallusion iClone 2 Studio animation software

Karl Foster — 2007-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Karl Foster, Personal Computer World, Monday 21 May 2007 at 00:00:00

Character animation and 3D scene creation promises to be a whole lot easier

When someone in the know tells you that there’s no such thing as an easy-to-use 3D animation suite, point them in the direction of iClone 2 Studio, the latest 3D...

Review: E-Frontier Poser 7 animation software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 13 February 2007 at 00:00:00

Some rough edges, but it's still a powerful animation package

Poser has always been something of a niche product, aimed at designers and animators who need to create realistic human figures....

Review: E-Frontier Poser Figure Artist design software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 00:00:00

A good value 3D graphics package

E-Frontier’s Poser is used by a lot of designers to create and animate 3D human figures. However, not everyone needs Poser’s sophisticated animation features, so E-Frontier has launched Poser Figure...

Review: E-Frontier Anime Studio 5 animation software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-01-19T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Friday 19 January 2007 at 00:00:00

Budget animation software with some powerful tools

The trailer for the new Simpsons movie proclaims that it is “the movie that dares to be ugly”, emphasising the fact that it’s in 2D, compared to the 3D splendours...

Incomedia Website X5 image gallery

Will Stapley — 2007-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Thursday 18 January 2007 at 00:00:00

Creating a website from scratch using Website X5 is a relatively painless experience. Here we've got four screenshots from the design process.

Review: Xara Xtreme Pro graphics software

Nigel Whitfield — 2007-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Friday 12 January 2007 at 00:00:00

Flash and PDF creation made simple

Back in 2005 we reviewed Xara Xtreme, a capable graphics package for bitmap and vector graphics. The new Pro version adds some useful extra features, such as multi page documents,...

Review: IMSI TurboCAD Deluxe 12

Terry Relph-Knight — 2006-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Terry Relph-Knight, Personal Computer World, Monday 9 October 2006 at 00:00:00

2D and 3D design software at an entry-level price

From its humble beginnings as low-cost design software, TurboCAD has developed over time. Now at version 12, TurboCAD Professional has risen up the ranks by launching a head-to-head competitor for...

Review: Half-Life 2 Episode One 3D first-person shooter

Jonathan Parkyn — 2006-06-21T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 21 June 2006 at 00:00:00

Gordon Freeman returns for a short-lived but enjoyable episodic experience

It has been eight years since scientist-cum-saviour Gordon Freeman first took up his crowbar and singlehandedly beat back the alien threat at Black Mesa....

Test gallery

2005-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Personal Computer World, Monday 17 October 2005 at 00:00:00

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Bryce 5.5

Cliff Joseph — 2005-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 17 August 2005 at 00:00:00

Create complex and artistic 3D scenes

In order to appeal to the lucrative Cad market, most 3D graphics programs concentrate on modelling - designing complex 3D objects such as buildings and cars....

Xara 3D 6

Nigel Whitfield — 2005-06-24T00:00:00.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Friday 24 June 2005 at 00:00:00

An affordable way to create 3D graphics

Creating good-looking logos is one of the hardest tasks for amateur web designers. Xara3D 6 aims to take a lot of the effort out of it, making it easy to...

Ulead Cool 3D Studio

Alistair Dabbs — 2003-04-07T11:11:56.000Z

Alistair Dabbs, Personal Computer World, Monday 7 April 2003 at 11:11:56

Create animations to enhance your DV projects with this useful but complex package.

Everyone can be a digital moviemaker thanks to the popularity of DV camcorders. But although video editing software is inexpensive, these programs rarely offer much functionality beyond the basics.With Cool...

Caligari Truespace 6

Alistair Dabbs — 2003-03-05T11:06:08.000Z

Alistair Dabbs, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 5 March 2003 at 11:06:08

Loads of enhancements make this mid-range 3D package even better than before.

Between graphics toys such as Amorphium and Hollywood-quality high-end packages such as Maya lies Truespace, the king of mid-range professional 3D.This release brings lots of small enhancements, from modelling to...