Shake 3

Rating:
Summary: AWESOME
Review: Shake has been used on so many feature films - including the last six Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects - and is required courseware at so many major film schools worldwide, that listing its credits would require several pages.

Superior workflow
Shake 3 uses an intuitive, tree-based compositing model that gives artists access to any part of the composite at any time. This flexible, nonlinear workflow allows users to make critical creative and technical decisions at any point in the compositing process.

Unique effects technology
Shake 3 includes-production proven visual effects tools such as layering, tracking, rotoscoping, painting and color correction. Built-in keying capabilities include Photron's Primatte and CFC's Keylight, two industry-leading professional keyers. For additional flexibility, Shake supports third-party plug-ins such as The Foundry, GenArts, Ultimatte and more.

Powerful compositing engine
The resolution-independent, hybrid scan line/tile-based render engine allows composites to contain standard-definition (SD), high-definition (HD) and film images simultaneously. Artists can choose to process operations at 8-, 16-, or 32-bit (float) color resolution, enabling HDR images to be composited with greater fidelity while maintaining overall performance.

Here is a list of movies that shake was used in:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
X2
Matrix Revolution
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers-Gollum

Ice Age
Anna and the King
Fight Club
The Prince of Egypt

Here are some quotes from industries best composite companies:
Tippett. "Projects that took an hour per frame to render now render in a minute per frame."

Digital Filmworks. Shake helps to recreate the splendor of 1860s Malaysia in "Anna and the King."

Asylum. Shake compositing software has been in use at Asylum Visual Effects since its inception.

Gray Matter. Shake compositing software created striking visual effects in "Fight Club."

R!OT. Providing full-service digital production for film, television and interactive projects.

Black Logic. Black Logic continues to use Shake compositing software for various types of jobs from broadcast to film.

Digital.Art.Media. "Shake allows us to quickly set up key frames under the client's direction."

Millfilm. "Shake enabled us to quickly and easily put together scripts to rough composite our layers together."

DKP. "This project would never have been completed the way the client wanted without Shake's speed."

Dreamworks SKG. Shake was used for numerous tasks and scene creation in the making of "The Prince of Egypt."

Image Savant. Shake was used on "Fight Club" to manipulate extremely high resolution scans of 8x10 camera negatives.

Oddworld Inhabitants. "Shake allows us to run numerous processes on large numbers of high quality graphic images."