TGS already offers the Amapi3D package as well as 3Space, technology for displaying 3D scenes on the Web. In the end the product went to Eovia, a start-up founded by members of the Carrara development team.Ĭarrara won't be Eovia's only 3D offering: On Wednesday, the company announced that it has merged with TGS, a strong player in the scientific-visualization market. MetaCreations sold off most of its applications-including Bryce, Painter and KPT-to Corel in December 1999, but the company initially failed to find a buyer for Carrara. Pushing that paradigm even further is ZBrush from Pixologic, which combines traditional paint functions with 3D modeling in a very innovative way, positioning itself as a creative tool that moves between two and three dimensions in very unexpected ways.įinally, Expo also saw the rebirth of Carrara, initially developed by former graphics software powerhouse MetaCreations as a replacement for both Infini-D and RayDream Studio. Maxxon, publisher of Cinema 4D, demoed its recently introduced BodyPaint 3D, which lets artists paint on complete 3D models interactively. Lightwave 6.5, another strong player on the Windows platform, also showed off a slick Mac OS X implementation at Macworld. A high-end standard, this 3D modeling and rendering package has been used in many of the most spectacular special effects Hollywood had to show over the past years.Īt $7,500, Maya isn't cheap-but it is precisely the sort of industrial-strength program the Mac needs to reinstate its credibility. The most prominent example: Alias/Wavefront's Maya, which received prominent play during Apple ( aapl) CEO Steve Jobs' keynote speech.