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List of software for creative work and what and what you can achieve with it
Maya
3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications (including video games), animated films, TV series, and visual effects.
Website http://autodesk.com/maya
Blackmagic (Eyon) Fusion
Is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for movies, TV-series and commercials and employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction:
Website https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion
Cinema 4D
3D software suite developed for 3D artists
Website https://maxon.net/
Adobe Photoshop
Is a raster graphics editor. Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, spot color, and duotone. Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics as well as 3D graphics and video
Website https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
Adobe Illustrator
A vector graphics editor that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML.
Website https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
Apples shake
Used to create the world's most celebrated visual effects and used to be in the post-production industry.
Website https://web.archive.org/web/20080122073447/http://www.apple.com/shake
Autodesk Inventor
Inventor allows 2D and 3D data integration in a single environment, creating a virtual representation of the final product that enables users to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built
Website http://autodesk.com/inventor
Nuke
A node-based digital compositing and visual effects application - used for television and film post-production.
Website https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke
Adobe Lightroom
Image organization and image manipulation software, it allows importing/saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images.
Lightroom's edits are always non-destructive by keeping the original image and the edits applied to it saved separately
Website https://adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom-classic.html
Adobe After effects
A digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application - used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. I
Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects
Blender
A free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games. Some features: 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, video editing, and compositing.
Website https://www.blender.org/
List of software for creative work and what and what you can achieve with it
Maya
3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications (including video games), animated films, TV series, and visual effects.
Website
http://autodesk.com/maya
Blackmagic (Eyon) Fusion
Is typically used to create visual effects and digital compositing for movies, TV-series and commercials and employs a node-based interface in which complex processes are built up by connecting a flowchart or schematic of many nodes, each of which represents a simpler process, such as a blur or color correction:
Website
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion
Cinema 4D
3D software suite developed for 3D artists
Website
https://maxon.net/
Adobe Photoshop
Is a raster graphics editor. Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and supports masks, alpha compositing and several color models including RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, spot color, and duotone.
Photoshop uses its own PSD and PSB file formats to support these features. In addition to raster graphics, Photoshop has limited abilities to edit or render text and vector graphics as well as 3D graphics and video
Website
https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
Adobe Illustrator
A vector graphics editor that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML.
Website
https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
Apples shake
Used to create the world's most celebrated visual effects and used to be in the post-production industry.
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/20080122073447/http://www.apple.com/shake
Autodesk Inventor
Inventor allows 2D and 3D data integration in a single environment, creating a virtual representation of the final product that enables users to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built
Website
http://autodesk.com/inventor
Nuke
A node-based digital compositing and visual effects application - used for television and film post-production.
Website
https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke
Adobe Lightroom
Image organization and image manipulation software, it allows importing/saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images.
Lightroom's edits are always non-destructive by keeping the original image and the edits applied to it saved separately
Website
https://adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom-classic.html
Adobe After effects
A digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application - used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production.
After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. I
Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects
Blender
A free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games.
Some features: 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, video editing, and compositing.
Website
https://www.blender.org/