Graphics, Animation and Visualization

• 3D View new - software to visualize, measure and markup 3D native CAD/CAM models
• 3Di - an open GL-based rendering technology that enables users working in a standard Web browser to manipulate and add images and textures to photographic images, from Cre8tiv
• 3ds max (formerly 3D Studio Max) - 3D animation and modeling software for character animation, generation game development and visual effects production, works with the Character Studio plug-in, for creating crowd scenes, whether animal or human. From Discreet, a division of Autodesk
• 4D Graphics - makers of 4D Design
• AccuRender - photorealistic rendering add-on for AutoCAD (reviews)
• Adobe - creators of Photoshop and Illustrator, plus such Web tools as Atmosphere, for creating realistic and immersive environments online, and SVG Viewer, a browser plug-in to render scalable vector graphics
• Adphonic new - video production and corporate DVD presentations, location filming, advanced digital editing and producers of film content for mobile phones and Bluetooth marketing
• Advanced Visual Systems - makers of software for analyzing and displaying large amounts of data, including AVS/Express
• Amapi Pro new - offers NURB-based environment for the conception and creation of high-end 3D models, from e frontier America
• Amorphium Pro - modeling and animation software that creates 3D objects using real-time 2D brushes and design tools, from Electric Image
• Arete Image Software - makers of photorealistic oceanographic and atmospheric software, including Digital PyroTools to create realistic fire, smoke and water effects
• ARTVPS new - deveoloper of phtorealistic rendering
• Autodesk VIZ (formerly 3D Studio VIZ) new - create and communicate designs in a real-time 3D visualization environment (reviews)
• Bionatics - procedural 3D plant modeling technology, delivers a complete suite of professional solutions for 3D photorealistic plant & outdoor simulations
• Boujou new - provides fully automated 3D camera tracking and calibration from film or video material, from 2D3
• Bunkspeed - makers of HyperShot and HyperDrive, visualization software for automobiles
• Camtasia - a suite of tools that captures the action and sound from any part of the Windows desktop and saves it to a standard AVI movie file or streaming video, for computer-based training, product demonstrations and sales and technical presentations, from TechSmith
• Carrara Studio - graphics application for both Macintosh and Windows handles 3D modeling, animation, rendering and special effects, from Eovia (reviews)
• Ceetron - makers of high-speed 3D visualization and animation software for finite element analysis programs
• Christie Digital Systems - producer of high-performance projection technologies, including the world's first stereoscopic 3-D digital projector
• Corel Graphics - Corel Draw, Photopaint, Designer, more
• CValley, Inc. - makers of Adobe Illustrator plug-ins for CAD, BluePrintTools-Pro, to draw simple blueprints, design with dimension lines and measure over a curved line, and EXDXF-Pro, to convert Bezier curves from Illustrator to a smooth line with minimal anchor points
• Cycore - makers of  Web-based interactive 3D graphics software, including, Cult3D and PuppetTime
• Deneba Software - CAD and graphics software for both Windows and Mac OS platforms (DenebaCAD reviews)
• Discreet - makers of systems and software for digital image creation, manipulation and editing. Products are: 3ds max, 3D Autodesk VIZ, Lightscape, edit, fire, smoke, flame, flint, combustion, inferno, frost, character studio, reactor and infrastructure.
• DigArts - imaging tools and media for artists, designers and architects including tree & foliage visualization products that work like paints in Painter & Paint Shop Pro
• Enggsoft - offers visualization tools that allows users to distribute CAD drawings
• Flamingo - raytracing and radiosity for Rhino, by Robert McNeel
• formZ - 3D solid modeling, visualization and rendering software (reviews)
• Ghost 3D - makers of 3D object modeling, digitizing and conversion/importing plug-ins for 3ds max and VIZ, applications include ResErect, Scribe-iT, Surf-iT and MicroScribe-MAX
• IDELIX Software Inc. - specializes in software to improve the presentation of data and images on computing devices
• ImageCELs - clip-art libraries from IMAGETECTS featuring photorealistic images of people, trees, shrubs, cars and trucks and tropical plants
• ImageStudio - rendering software for transforming 3D models into visuals, by Alias (reviews)
• Interactive Product Animator - windows based animation package integrated into PTC, I-DEAS, SolidWorks and other MCAD products, by Immersive Design
• Intergraph - engineering model rendering and animation
• IPA - generates interactive Web-based animations from 3D product model assemblies created by the leading CAD systems, from Immersive Design. (reviews)
• Jig - an open, extensible program with multiple rendering algorithms that can be combined in one scene to create multiple effects, from Steamboat Software
• Kelseus - makers of CLOTH technology, which allows users to create realistic animations of clothes and fabric
• Lightscape - radiosity-enhanced images for photorealistic images, will be retired by by Autodesk in January 2003 (reviews)
• LightWave 3D - 3D graphics and animation by NewTek (reviews)
• LightWork Design - makers of rendering, simulation and visualization software, including LightWorks, a rendering tool for producing photorealistic 3D images and animations, LightWorks Real-time Plus add-on for interactive rendering, and LightWorks Sketch, a rendering product that provides the ability to instantly create non-photorealistic, impressionistic and stylized design renderings
• LizardTech - makers of an application suite including Content Server, to view high-resolution photos and scanned documents; MrSID, to reduce high-resolution photos and images, and DjVu, to reduce scanned documents 50 to 100 times smaller than PDF files
• Longview Advisors new - provides consulting services in the business, technology and application of 3D software in product lifecycle management
• MatchMover - camera tracking with computer graphics, by REALVIZ
• Maya - create digital imagery, 3D animation and visual effects, by Alias
• mental ray - rendering software that combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability to create photorealistic imagery and visual effects
• myVR new - provides technology and distribution technology for 3D models, Autodesk development partner, located in Oslo Norway
• Neon - 3D publishing tool to create 3D models, renderings, and animations and output them to the Web, from Ashlar-Vellum
• Nverse Photo - plug-in for Autodesk VIZ and 3ds max can model and texture huge 3D urban scenes from aerial photos, from Precision Lightworks
• Okino Computer Graphics - graphics applications include NuGraf Rendering System (photorealistic rendering software), PolyTrans (3D model translation software) and NuGraf Developer's 3D Toolkit (3D photorealistic component libraries for software developers) (reviews)
• Open Inventor - a full-featured object-oriented framework for building interactive 3D graphics applications, from TGS 
• Opticore - makers of 3D real-time software for interactive product visualization, including Opus Realizer, to create visual effects such as automatic reflections and shadows and real-time lighting and editing; and Opus Studio, to visualize and analyze data before any physical prototypes are built
• ParallelGraphics - makers of many Web-based applications for creating and viewing of 3D objects, including Cortona VRML, VRMLPad (and its plug-in Extrusion Editor), Internet Space Builder, Internet Model Optimizer and Outline3D, an online tool for marketing products within a real-time environment 
• PhotoModeler  - use photographs to create 3D models. Exports to DXF, 3DS, VRML and other formats. By Eos Systems 
• Piranesi - post-rendering visualization by Informatix (reviews)
• The Plugin Site - helps to manage and preview image formats, plug-ins, and other graphics tools from image, animation, video and 3D applications, from Harald Heim 
• Quest3D - create architectural virtual reality presentations from CAD designs
• Radiance - physical lighting simulation system used to create realistic scenes, open source, by Greg Ward Larson
• RenderCity - site allows users to create architectural renderings online for free by modeling with DesignWorkshop or other Radiance-compatible 3D CAD software, from Artifice 
• RenderPipe for MAYA - a plug-in that provides an interface between RenderDrive, ART's 3D rendering system, and Maya, the 3D modeling and animation software from Alias
• Right Hemisphere - makers of texturing and painting 3D graphics software, including Deep Paint 3D and Texture Weapons
• Scene7 - offers interactive imaging tools that transform static digital product lists into interactive catalogs, allowing customers to adjust a product's colors, textures and patterns
• SGI - makers of OpenGL Multipipe and OpenGL Multipipe Software Development Kit, for SGI's Onyx visualization systems
• Shade new - 3D graphics toolkit for designers, illustrators and architects, by e frontier (reviews)
• Softimage - modeling and rendering for building and product visualization
• Stitcher - for integration of CG elements into live action footage, by REALVIZ
• T-Splines new - offers organic 3D modeling software in styling, industrial design, CAD, CAE and entertainment
• Tecplot new - delivers visualization software for engineers and scientists to analyze, discover and communicate results
• Mercury Computer Systems - interactive 2D/3D visualization developer toolkits and PC/Mac desktop applications
• Time's Up - makers of immersive tools, including SPIN, the spherical projection interface in which the user literally enters a virtual world by stepping inside a 3-meter diameter translucent ball and is tracked by five projectors 
• trueSpace - NURBS-based modeling and animation 3D software for interactive Web, graphic and product design and game markets, from Caligari Corporation  (reviews)
• Universe - modeling and animation tool by Electric Image (reviews)
• VectorWorks SPOTLIGHT - combines drafting and modeling technology with lighting design and production tools to create light plots, automate paperwork and visualize design concepts in 3D, from Nemetschek North America 
• Vue d'Esprit - realistic 3D scenery, rendering features includes volumetric effects, glowing materials, lens flares, stars and planets, rocks, more, by e-on (reviews)
• Virtus Corporation - ConceptCAD, visualization and modeling
• Visualistic - presentation tool converts 3D CAD models into 3D real-time images, from Getme 
• Visviva Authoring Studio - offers integrated object design, animation composition, 3D modeling, image painting, vector drawing and hypertext editing
• ZBrush - renders 3D geometry, materials and textures in real-time without the need for graphic accelerators, from Pixologic, Inc.