[abdias]

Good times! I never came across Tracer or Sculpt 3D, but I did start out with Real 3D [1] which actually was created in 1983 for the CBM64 and later came to the Amiga in 1990.

About the same time Lightwave 3D [2] came out which first was bound to Newtek's famous VideoToaster but of course someone found a way to emulate the hardware so "everybody" could use it :) even for us who needed PAL (disk swapping was a thing back in those days).

I recon that Blender is a very capable 3D software as well (and as a NLE video editor (!)). I never got around to properly use as I was a customer with Newtek but I kind of giving up on Newtek so I might dig into the massive information and tutorials out there for Blender.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realsoft_3D

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightWave_3D

[mbrookes]

LightWave 3D, Cinema 4D, Realsoft 3D, Aladdin4d, Amiga Reflections, Sculpt 3D, Dkbtrace, Imagine, Turbosilver, Real3D.

On a home computer. In the 80's to early 90's. The future is where you have been.