Discreet combustion 3 offers the tools and speed that professionals need and that many artists crave. Animation, paint, editing, and 3D compositing are combined into an environment founded on Discreet’s legendary user interface. Designed to fulfill the most demanding effects artists and priced to fit within most budgets, combustion 3 is a great solution for creating effects and motion graphics for video, film, DVD, and the Web.

A few of the other key features include a fully interactive and integrated 2D- particle system with real time preview, advanced color correction,grain managment and keying tools fromflame visual effects system1, and free backburner network rendering. All this and so much more. Retails for around $999.99