trueSpace

TrueSpace is a comprehensive and reliable piece of software providing you with advanced capabilities in terms of creating and editing 2D and 3D scenes and animations, with a variety of adjustable features and options meant to help you fully appropriate your designs.

The program appears quite complex, while the numerous buttons, menus and panels can prove overwhelming, particularly for inexperienced users who simply wish to try out such an application. The lack of a help file or a user's manual make it even more difficult to approach at first.

Nonetheless, if you manage to overcome the initial impression, you will soon come to realize that trueSpace can help you generate professional-looking results, with little to no effort. It features a tabbed interface allowing you to switch back and forth between 'Workspace' and 'Model'.

TrueSpace offers an extensive 'Library' of objects and items that you can easily introduce in your designs, for instance 'Characters', 'Textures', 'Lights' and several others, each one comprising numerous elements for you to choose from and work with, but also adjust their individual properties to better suit your creation. At the same time, you can modify the used colors for these objects, as well as their position, size, orientation or rotation.

Moreover, trueSpace provides you with a series of intuitive functions, like the 'Facial Animator', which enables you to introduce faces that can move, blink or speak in your designs. Other components include the 'Mirror Modeler', the 'UV Mapping Editor', the 'Anim View', 'Object Subtraction', 'Normalize Scale', 'Camera' and countless more.

To conclude, trueSpace is an advanced and efficient application whose main purpose is to offer you a feature-packed tool so you can create animations, scenes and other designs like a professional, but without having to pay great amounts of money to do it.