Eggbox Studios is aided in it's business activities by a variety of professional services and tools, from software developers and hardware manufacturers to business federations and associations. The following list contains links to a selection of those that makes running a professional visualisation company possible.

Organisations

The Federation of Small Businesses is the UK's largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has over 215,000 members across 33 regions and 230 branches.

 

The CGSociety is the most respected and accessible global organization for creative digital artists. The CGS supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote, by celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in all aspects of digital art.

Ipswich & Suffolk Small Business Association (ISSBA) is a friendly and very active, non-profit making organisation which is dedicated to the support of small and new businesses in the county.

Our mission is to provide everything for the UK creative industry, online.

Our target audience is creative companies, individuals and their clients.

Software

 

LightWave® is a complete modeling, rendering and animation system. Used extensively in broadcast television production, film visual effects, video game development, print graphics and visualization, LightWave is responsible for more artists winning Emmy Awards than any other 3D application.

 

Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software is a must-have solution for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media — on air, online, on device, and invariably on deadline.

 

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.


It opens and saves to MS Office formats, has minimal impact on system performance and has more features and less bugs than MS Office...and it's free! 

 Maestro is an amazing plugin for Lightwave 3d which vastly improves and speeds up the character animation process.

 

Butterfly Net Render is a network rendering application which works with all major 3d and compositing applications.



vRoom is designed to simulate the interiors of buildings and the glass panes through which these interiors are seen.

Hardware

BOXX Workstations are a reference in the VFX industry: Innovative, powerful, and engineered for stability when running any VFX application, they form the basic infrastructure of today's most creative VFX studios.

 

Wacom's Intuos line of graphics tablets have been on the desks of graphics professionals for many years. They are quite simply the best graphics tablets that money can buy.