Shade 8 is the 3D graphics toolkit for designers, illustrators and architects. Find out what 200,000+ Shade users already know – Shade is the 3D application with the richest tool set available, all at an impressively low price.
The ultimate in 3D sophistication: powerful modeling, rendering with raytracing, GI and Callisto in unlimited size, network rendering, FogPlus plug-in for advanced fog effects and much more.

Shade 8 Feature Highlights Include:
Create QuickTime VR panoramas or object movies directly from Shade
Support for 3D sound (wav, au, aif, aiff), that users can import and mix with animation and output together into movie file.
Path Constraints plugin - easy to create linked motion.
Boolean and Bezier modeling, Polygon mesh modeling, Auto-smoothing of curves and more to detail projects.
Global Illumination renderer includes Photon Mapping, Path Tracing, Raytracing and Radiosity-with-physics for photorealistic imagery. Callisto, the rendering plugin with global illumination and detailed settings, has been upgraded. A translucent shader and metallic shader have been added, and aberration is now supported.
PoserFusionTM, enabling hosting and playback of Poser scenes within Shade.
Shade integrates with Poser, ArchiCAD, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as other 2D, 3D and CAD applications.