^ Softimage slashes 3D price, UK: Broadcast now.Announces First Customer Shipment of SOFTIMAGE/XSI Version 1.0 Softimage Grants 17,000 Licenses of Next-Generation 3-D Animation Software", Business Wire (Find articles), 2000‐5‐30. ^ Softimage 3D Version 3.7 for Windows NT and IRIX Platforms Now Shipping (press release), Microsoft, Ap,.
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The Softimage|3D features are divided between five modules: Model, Motion, Actor, Matter and Tools. Productions that used Softimage|3D include the film The Matrix, Starship Troopers, some of the Nick Jr ID's from 1994 and the video game Super Mario 64. The last version of Sofimage|3D was version 4.0, released in 2002 at its lowest price ever, 1,485$ See Softimage, Co. Softimage|3D was gradually replaced by the company's next product, Softimage XSI starting in 2000. 3D paint functionality was added a year later in version 3.7. In 1996, Microsoft began offering Softimage|3D Extreme 3.5, which included particle effects and the mental ray renderer. In 1994, Microsoft acquired the Softimage Corporation and renamed the package Softimage|3D, releasing a MS Windows NT port two years later. Softimage was used by Industrial Light and Magic to animate the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, by Cyan to create the adventure game Riven. Softimage|3D was originally released at Siggraph in 1988 as the Softimage Creative Environment.