Kinemac 1.0 Released--Easy 3D Animations

Kinemac is a 3D real time animation and presentation software for Mac OS X. According to the developer, it allows you to create your own professional 3D animations with the simplicity of a 2D presentation tool.

Kinemac plays the animations in real time at full screen and exports them to QuickTime movie files or to a series of single still images. For this reason it's an application to create advertising for TV, trailers for movies, video-clips, instant scrolling messaging to put "on air" in real time, video content for CD, DVD, web sites. Just drag your images, text, movies and songs onto the Kinemac stage to get them into your animation. Also you can quickly call a menu and create 3D and 2D objects such as cubes, cylinders, spheres, tubes, pies, rectangles, disks. On any object you can apply image and movie textures and set the surfaces attributes such as color, transparency, reflection. It costs $249 for a single user license. [Bill Fox]