P3D Animation Master 2000 for stereoscopic rendering

["Harold Baize" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa, I'm so glad P3D is back. There is so much to talk 
about. One of the things that I'm excited about is the 
new version of Hash's Animation:Master. A:M is a very 
powerful animation program for Mac & PCs. What is 
really great is that the new version will directly 
render stereo images, in anaglyph, side-by-side, or 
interlaced formats. You can set the camera separation 
and the stereo window (they call it "frame distance"). 
I bought A:M99 back in October and have been 
struggling with getting the camera settings right for 
stereo pairs. Now it is automatic! 

It is easy (relatively speaking ;-) ) to create stereoscopic 
animations. You can also make stereo stills, and the 
render engine is quite good (maybe not as good as 
POV-Ray, but close). The modeling environment is 
spline patch based, which is better than polygon based, 
IMHO.  

Another great feature- price. A:M 2000 is only $299, 
with an academic discount it is $199. 

I hate to sound like an advertisement, but I'm really 
stoked about this program. One downside, the version 
shipped has bugs- you need to go to their web site to 
download updates.
  http://www.hash.com

Harolddd