If you like this, you have an idea what you can do with Chrystal 3D Impact Pro.
   This program can do just about anything with text or 3D graphics (it comes with a host of graphic images and more are available for registered users on its web site. What we like about it is that there is an almost infinite variety of options with this program: 10 pages of colors, 10 pages of effects, 10 pages of materials which you can use in your antimated graphics. The program even boasts a compression engine, but we find you can get better compression running the finished product through other programs. No big deal.
   How do you use Crystal 3D Impact Pro? The easiest and most simple method, unless you are importing a 2D graphic, is to use the animation wizard, which starts up looking like this:
   The wizard simply leads you through the steps you have to take as you construct your text image, pick out a bevel type, select material, choose a background and apply motion. Ah motion. There are so many choices you'll spend a good hour just watching to see what everything does.
   But, even using the wizard, Crystal 3D's options are almost infinitely variable. You can, for instance, choose the gold material and then change the color to blue or green (or purple or anything else you want). You still get the gold "effect," but in another color.
   There are lots of materials, too, as you can see from the screen shot – each of these tabs has a dozen different effects, with a preview window in the center.
 One of the best features of Crystal 3D is that you can break up objects. This is particularly useful with text. If you want to have a different motion assigned to each letter of a four-letter word, you simply do it. The "Beta" graphic on this site's home page uses this technique – twirling each letter differently.
   Crystal 3D works with 2D images, too. It will attempt to make them into three-dimensional objects, but often the results (due to the construction of the graphics) is less than ideal for this feature. Nevertheless, you can animate two-dimensional objects with Crystal 3D and the effects are very effective.
  (We had trouble with our screen capture utility and Crystal 3D, so this particular capture is in greyscale although the program, of course, uses color.)
   Crystal 3D is simple to use, simply following the steps laid out in the wizard. You can move backward as well as forward and, as is obvious from the materials selector above, there are advanced options which can be incorporated into the "wizard process."
   All in all a very fine program which can achieve some very dramatic effects.

   Link to Crystal 3D Impact Pro's web site.