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Strata Design 3D CX 7 for Mac and PC - 3D for Creative Designers
Strata Design 3D CX is our professional-level 3D modeling and animation software that delivers end-to-end power for the entire 3D design workflow. Quickly bring your creative ideas to life with a simplified learning curve, plugins to the Adobe Create Suite and award-winning rendering quality rivaling any software at any price.
Model · Texture · Compose · Animate · Render · Smile :)
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All the Power for One Simple Price
Unlike some 3D applications, Strata Design 3D CX gives you all of its 3D tools for one great price. We don't force you to decide how you're going to use the product in the future, or make a guess ahead of time about which tools you might need for future projects. The only pricing decision you need to make is whether to buy Design 3D CX by itself, or as part of the Strata 3D CX Suite.
Simplified 3D Learning Curve
Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. Quick start templates, libraries, predefined effects, backgrounds, environments and more allow designers to create complex scenes in minutes. With a user interface and tools that are familiar to today's 2D designers, you invest your time learning 3D design concepts rather than a new design paradigm.
Model Anything in 3D or Import Existing 3D Assets
For many, the thought of 3D modeling is a daunting task. Design 3D offers an extremely friendly modeling toolset and environment for manipulating your polygons, splines, and primitives into any 3D object or scene you can imagine. If you're working with existing 3D assets, Strata Design 3D CX utilizes a host of filters and options to accurately import third-party 3D models and scenes.
Apply Surface Textures with Precision
In the world of 3D, texturing may just be the most important component in creating convincing final renderings. Once you have designed your 3D model, Strata Design 3D CX gives you powerful tools to create, apply and manipulate surface textures with beautifully accurate results.
Set-Up Your Scene with Lighting, Backgrounds, Cameras, etc.
Scene composition is a critical step in producing stunning images. Design 3D CX makes it easier to control the environment than any photography studio you could imagine. Position your 3D objects and then place lights, reflection panels, cameras, backgrounds, environments, reflection elements and more produce a superior final render or animation for your design project.
Render Photo-Real Images and Animations at Blazing Speeds
Design 3D is well known for its extraordinary rendering technology. Whether you're after photo-realistic results or some other style for your static or motion graphics, you will find the rendering options to suit your needs and output the results using one of the fastest rendering engines in the industry. After all, it's all about the final results and Design 3D delivers.
Learn Design 3D CX Online at Strata 3D University
Learning 3D doesn't have to be difficult. Especially with Strata's online training library at your fingertips, covering every aspect of Strata Design 3D CX and the entire 3D design workflow. Strata 3D University makes it simple to find the subject of interest and quickly get up to speed with short, informative videos created by professional 3D designers.
Tightly Integrated with the Adobe Creative Suites
Design 3D CX comes with six, Adobe Photoshop plug-ins that connect you directly to your favorite image application and improve your design workflow. Interoperability is also a key part of Design 3D with the ability to read in Adobe files including psd, eps, .ai and pdf. Note: Photoshop Plugins require Photoshop CS4 or CS5 Extended running in 32-bit mode.
Photoshop User
"Strata Design CD CX 6 is a great product for anyone who's looking for a 3D app that will enhance their productivity, creativity, and integrate with the Adobe products to help create projects." - December 2009 Issue
MacWorld UK | Editor's Choice Award
"This could be the Adobe-devoted designer's must-have modeler... Seamless integration with Photoshop, user interface familiar to Adobe users, robust, stable and mature."
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DigitalArts Best Buy Award in recent product comparison
"[Strata]Design 3D's subtools offer impressive roundtrip capability: you can send a 3D model from Photoshop to Strata Design 3D, add textures and send the model back. You can continue the texture editing/modeling process, or close and render it...This integration sets Strata's tools above the rest of the applications on test."
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Layers Magazine, Four and a Half Stars
"Strata has clearly paid attention to Adobe aficionados with its robust Strata 3D CX 5.0 flagship product, as Adobe users will recognize many of the core tools in the main palette."
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Digit Magazine
"Strata is a 3D application aimed at giving designers the kind of simplicity they experience on the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator... Strata is one of the most straightforward 3D packages available, and offers impressive power at an affordable price."
MacUser UK
"Strata Design 3D provides 99% of your 3D modeling needs within an intuitive, comprehensive environment. Integration with Photoshop is seamless and occasionally inspired. Whether you're a seasoned 3D modeler, or a dedicated Photoshop user who only wants to import and render models found in the Google 3D Warehouse, Strata Design 3D will revolutionize the way you work."
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Case Study | A Virtual Fleet of Aircraft
Illustrating the world of flight can be a tremendous challenge. Photographs can be the wrong angle, low quality or simply not available. For the aviation enthusiasts that read the Greek magazine "Remove Before Flight" the visuals are just as important as the technical articles. As Art Direcetor of 11 Aviation Publications, Nasos Vlachos turned to Strata Design 3D CX, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to solve the problem.
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Video | Creating the Aquo bottle in Design 3D CX 6
Watch as Chris Tyler shows you how to build this sport bottle starting with Illustrator style splines, moving to polygons and ending up with a completed subdivision surface ready for some glacial spring water.
Techniques include using the powerful new poly modeling tools and guide system for constraining modeling operations.
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Case Study | A Market Bull's Eye for Kraft
What do you do when you get a new sauce? You get a new bottle of course. Starting in late 2007, Kraft's Bull's-Eye BBQ Sauce marketing team undertook an extensive review of the BBQ category and the BBQ consumer. In 2008 this hard work resulted in a killer new sauce. With superior taste and more authentic BBQ flavor, the team at Kraft went on to develop a new brand position to go with the new flavor. This required new packaging to bring all these elements together.
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Video | Creating a Baseball Trophy
In this tutorial, Ken creates a 3D trophy from sketch to layout, using Strata 3D CX 5.5, Photoshop CS3 Extended and Illustrator.
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Video | Beginner: User Interface Introduction
This video covers the button bar, all of the palettes and the modeling window, as well as covering some basic key shortcuts.
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Video | Beginner: Modeling Introduction
This video covers how to insert primitives, set a ground plane, and a reflective background, add a directional light and render an image.
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