Shade is Back: Shade 9 Released by Mirye Software
I am happy to say that Shade 3D is back with the release of Shade 9 through Mirye Software. You can download a 30 day trial of Shade 9 through Shadetrial.com. Shade is a powerful, professional 3D software with unique modeling, animation and rendering capabilities and available for Mac OS X and Windows.
Shade was first released in Japan in 1986. After a successful but brief availability in English in the late 1980′s, Shade did not make another English appearance until E Frontier America was formed. E Frontier America was sold to Smith Micro, along with a portfolio of software products, including the excellent character animation product Poser. That left Shade without a venue outside of Japan.
Mirye Software Publishing is a property of Proactive International, and was formed to provide a publishing venue for technology titles. What that means is that products can get into retail venues – both physical and electronic. Shade is now published through Mirye Software, including localization, pre-sales, marketing, technical support and more, though E Frontier Japan will still handle the Japanese language market.
I was first aware of Shade back in the late 1980′s when I lived in Japan. Shade was extremely expensive at that time, and to this day still is the dominant 3D software package in Japan. Over the next few months there will be a steady stream of news about Shade.
