3ds max 4

3ds max 4 delivers CG professionals advanced tools for character animation, next generation game development, and visual effects production. Numerous key new feature additions and architectural enhancements compliment these three major initiatives, making 3ds max 4 an ideal tool for the 3D animation industry.

A highly tuned animation system allows artists to bring their ideas to life with the most advanced tools for modeling and animating characters. Version 4's state of the art interactive graphics, approachable extensibility, next-generation modeling tools and truly open architecture make 3ds max 4 the premiere 3D content creation tool for next generation game development such as Microsoft's X-Box and Sony Playstation 2 platforms. An interactive and photo-realistic ActiveShade render engine, customizable and production proven network rendering system, and tight post-production integration with combustion - Discreet's desktop 3D compositing software - makes 3ds max 4 one of the most efficient and productive tools for film, Web, and television visual effects.

3ds max delivers a unified, object-oriented platform for artists creating visual effects, character animation and next generation games. Since its introduction in 1996, 3ds max has been the recipient of more than 65 industry awards and is the 3D tool of choice among more than 140,000 3D artists using Windows.

For a limited time, each copy of 3ds max 4 ships with the "Web studio set," a collection of plug-ins and tools to assist Web developers in 3d animation for the Internet. Among the tools in the Web studio set are those from Cycore, Ideaworks3D, and Pulse.