Shade 12 brings together advanced 3D modeling, rendering and animation
into an integrated, flexible suite. Use Shade as a complete, standalone
tool set, or as a key design tool in your existing workflow. 32-bit and
64 bit hardware accelerated Shade with powerful ShadeGrid network
rendering can scale easily to provide the fastest rendering possible.
Creating a model or a finished, rendered image or animation takes time.
Every feature of Shade lets you work faster to produce high resolution,
high quality art and animation. You can accomplish so many things with
Shade:
Modeling for poly mesh, curved surfaces, boolean, meta blob objects, generate models from photos or illustrations
Create fully animated characters with animated natural hair, or bring them in using COLLADA or PoserFusion
Skin your models with multi-layered materials and unlimited maps, normal maps,displacement maps and more
Shade lighting supports IES data, HDR-based IBL lighting, volumetric lighting to create well lit, natural illumination
Render your scenes with breathtaking radiosity using multipass rendering, toon rendering or 3D stereoscopic images.
