new software

The most incredible find is Truespace 7.6, a fully-featured 3D authoring software. The company has been around a long time, but their products got surpassed by others, and theirs has been relegated to the middle of the pack. Top-end software like Autodesk 3ds max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, and Maya cost 3,000 – 7,000usd. Truespace comes in around 600 dollars, with a slew of products in the 300 and less range. Anyway, this company was bot out by Microsoft this year, and they decided to give away this software – sweet! It has been used professionally in making movies also in the past, so i’m quite confident it can handle what i’m planning (hoping?) to do with a Great Controversy movie.
http://caligari.com/

Another one i snagged yesterday was Blender. This is open-source software, so it has always been free. It is mostly used for drawing in 3D or 2D, and has been used in developing a few movies like Spider Man2, and also for artwork on the History Channel among others.

For an interesting animated movie (the story isn’t too great, but) made all in Blender:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4
To get yours:
http://www.blender.org/

I got Cinebench the other day. It is a benchmark program to test out your computer’s graphic abilities:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/
cinebench_e.html
By way of comparison, mine got a measly 1,421 points 🙁

Nero gave me big problems in June after a virus infiltration, so i deleted it. To enable cd and dvd writing again, i downloaded what is probably the most popular free burner software – CDBurner XP:
http://cdburnerxp.se/

Then today was the most recent software download – ie8 browser. I’m still not used to tabs, but we’ll see. It has always amused me how many people like to diss everything Microsoft does, but i respect them a lot – and no, i don’t own any stock in them 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx