The choice of Oscar-winning effects artists seven years in a row is now optimized for the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X at all resolutions.

Shake artists have taken home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for seven years running, including this year for “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” Now you can take home the most versatile, resolution-independent professional digital effects compositing software.

Resolution Independence
Shake’s unique high-performance rendering engine lets you choose 8, 16 or 32-bit color depths on various resolution compositing operations. Strategically optimize dense input images to achieve greater fidelity composites while maintaining high performance. Shake delivers visual effects and compositing for film, HD and commercial.

Powerful Node-based Interface
Shake’s intuitive workspace helps you resolve creative and technical decisions at any point in the production process without sacrificing time or driving up costs. By organizing the building blocks of complex visual effects in a tree structure composed of nodes, Shake makes it simple to find, select and modify any element, in context, while previewing the final composite in real time.

Warping and Morphing Done Right
Shake 3.5 adds new shape-based morphing and warping capabilities. Use Shake’s familiar spline tools in a whole new way to create complex morphs and warps, including corrective effects and shape-shifting.

Open for Business
The Shake SDK provides access to virtually all of Shake’s power and functionality so you can fully customize processes to meet any automation or production challenge. Run Shake from its own interface, from scripts or from a Mac OS X or Linux command line (shell). For large facilities in particular, the Shake 3.5 SDK is an ideal platform for creating custom production pipelines