Technology Skills: Special Effects Artists and Animators

Graphics or photo imaging software

• Ability Photopaint
• ACD Systems Canvas
• Adobe Creative Cloud software
• Adobe FreeHand MX
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe ImageReady
• Adobe Photoshop
• Ambient Design ArtRage
• Apple DrawBerry
• Aqsis Renderer
• Autodesk Combustion
• Autodesk Maya
• Autodesk Mudbox
• Autodesk SketchBook Pro
• Autodesk SoftImage
• AutoQ3D
• Blender
• Bohemian Coding DrawIt
• Bunkspeed HyperDrive
• Bunkspeed HyperMove
• Caligari Corporation trueSpace
• Celsys RETAS
• Character Studio
• Cheetah3D
• Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
• Corel Painter
• Cybermotion 3D Designer
• DAZ Productions Bryce
• DAZ Productions Carrara
• e-on software Vue
• Electric Rain Swift 3D Xpress
• Freeverse Lineform
• HASH Animation:Master
• Indigo Renderer
• Inivis AC3D
• Luxology Modo
• Luxrender
• MagicTracer
• Massive Jet
• Maxon BodyPaint 3D
• Mental Images Mental Ray
• Microsoft Expression Design
• Nevercenter Silo
• NewTek Lightwave 3D
• Next Limit Maxwell Render
• NodeBox
• NVDIA Gelato
• Pixarra TwistedBrush
• Pixelmator
• Pixologic Zbrush
• Quad Software Grome
• RealFlow
• Satori Paint
• Serif DrawPlus
• Side Effects Software Houdini
• SideFX Houdini
• sK1
• Skencil
• SmithMicro Anime Studio
• SmithMicro Manga Studio
• SmithMicro SoftwarePoser
• SplutterFish Brazil
• Sunflow Render System
• Three-dimensional graphics software
• Trapcode Particular
• Trimble SketchUp Pro
• Two-dimensional graphics software
• VectorDesigner
• Xara Designer Pro

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