Motion Design & Digital Compositing Software Packages
Since motion design is created using images and video sequences, a necessary tool is a software package. Such packages can generate images or video sequences with an alpha channel, which stores all the transparency information.
Motion Design applications include:
- Adobe After Effects
- Autodesk Combustion
- CineFX
- Apple Motion/Shake
- Max/MSP
- Apple Quartz Composer
- Various VJ Programs
- Smith Micro Software Anime Studio
- Adobe Flash
Open source motion design applications:
- Synfig Studio
3D Programs used in motion graphics include:
- Modo 3D Luxology
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Softimage XSI
- Autodesk 3d studio max
- Autodesk Maya
- NewTek Lightwave
- e-on Vue Infinite
- The Blender Foundation Blender
- EI Technology Group Electric Image Animation System
Motion graphics plugins include:
- Magic bullet
- Trapcode
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