Before Fractal Design there was Ray Dream the company. They produced Ray Dream Designer (which had no animation capabilities) which later became Ray Dream Studio (which did). They also produced Add Depth, a 3d vector program sorta like Adobe Dimensions. They were based in Carpenteria, California. I believe Ray Dream kept going until Ray Dream Studio 3 and Fractal Design took over. Fractal Design later became MetaCreations and eventually sold off all their graphics programs. Painter went to Corel, Bryce went to Corel and then to Daz, Canoma got sold to Adobe and Carrara floated around for about a year until Eovia formed and took it over. Thus ends today's history lesson, we now return you to your previously viewed posting, already in progress.