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Actually we’ve been using it at my work for about 2 years now on a range of broadcast and film projects. Toxik has some real strengths over some of the competing packages, for example, it really rocks at the Stereoscopic workflow.

In fact, we had a project for an auto-stereoscopic display where we had 8 camera views, and it was easy to add an unlimited number of “streams” and then have our composite work across all eight camera views and have them look like a single input. Most compositors aren’t smart enough to take into account the fact that you may need more than two camera views for a “stereoscopic” composite. This works in regular node compositor, as well as the Re-Action module (similar to action in Flame)

Over the past couple of years Autodesk has done an excellent job of rebuilding the package from the ground-up to make it a real competitor in the market.

I recently did a review of Toxik 2009 for Post Magazine where I went through some of the stronger features of the package:

http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=7181E1FF912B476287C654CA183A7F1E

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