Award winning curved surface tools and traditional polygon based modeling tools are readily available

Shade Curved Surfaces: Because Life is Curved

Shade curved surface modeling tools are instantly familiar to 2D designers that use Adobe Illustrator and other professional vector illustration tools. Curved Surface modeling lets you create high performance, low memory consumption models and scenes by utilizing bezier curves. Rapidly create skinned, complex objects. Designer | Standard | Pro

Shade Poly Mesh Tool Box

Work with assets created in other applications or transform your curved surface models to polygons. Shade Standard and higher include a rich tool set for vertex | edge | face based selection, modeling and editing. Shade Mesh Edit also incorporates UV Projection Mapping tools that give you precise control over your texture based surfaces and materials.

Model Better Characters: Hair, Fur with Hair Salon

Hair Salon - generate realistic hair or fur guides over masked surfaces, then style your hair using tools that are instantly familiar, such as comb, curl and blow dry. Go beyond real world analogs with length, shorten, match length. Start on one side, then use the Mirror tool save time and generate a full head of hair.

With Shade Pro, leverage real world gravity and collision detection to animate hair and fur as realistically or unrealistically as you can imagine.

Booleans: Modeling and Non-Destructive Boolean Rendering

Have it both ways with Shade! Use true boolean modeling to create new, standalone geometry with complete control over surface-subdivision. Add simple directives to a part to tell Shade's flexible renderer how to apply boolean logic at render time.

Create Instant Sets: Shade Room Planner

Lay out a floor plan and then automatically generate a room, series or rooms, or an entire building! Set up floors and walls and cut out windows and doors. Generate standard, western style rooms or take and adventure and generate Japanese tatami rooms.

Meta Mesh Modeling

Create MetaMesh objects from cylinders, spheres, cubes and metapolygon from polygon based models to create blob-like objects that can blend or interact with each other. Apply your own parameters to determine the end result of how MetaMesh objects fuse with each other.

Text Modeling

Shade lets you create custom, beveled 3D text that conforms to a custom path using TextEffector and its Bevel Editor. After you create a 3D text style, you can save your style for reuse with other text. Shade Designer includes a limited version of TextEffector called TextEffector Lite.

Non-Destructive Lattice and Twist Modeling

Lattice Deformation allows you to modify the shape of a model non-destructively by creating a polygon based Lattice cage around a model. Modify the points of the polygon lattice cage, which in turn modify the shape of the object contained within the cage. A Lattice deformer can have any number of sections, allowing very granular control over deformation of objects within. Removing a model from the lattice restores it to its original form.

Line Fit Modeling

Fit Line is a powerful tool that lets you select multiple objects and have them conform to the surface of a target object.