Creature House
Encyclopedia
Creature House is a company acquired by Ray Dream, Fractal Design
, Corel
and at last Microsoft
in September 2003. They developed a powerful vector graphics
software package called Expression
which has since become developed and released as Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer as part of the Microsoft Expression Studio
suite of products. They also worked on an animation program LivingCels, an expansion of Expression, but the project was discontinued after Microsoft acquired the company, never completed (although a beta version was released).
Fractal Design
Fractal Design was a US software company, originally known as Fractal Software and founded in 1985. It merged into MetaCreations in 1997. It was initially known as Fractal Technology, and produced several best-selling creative software packages for the PC and Macintosh platforms. Its initial...
, Corel
Corel
Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems...
and at last Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
in September 2003. They developed a powerful vector graphics
Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...
software package called Expression
Creature House Expression
Creature House Expression was a vector graphics editor initially developed by Creature House in Hong Kong, then Ray Dream, then Fractal Design Corporation and later MetaCreations as a companion to then-Fractal Design/MetaCreations Painter. At the time, Creature House was an independent Hong Kong...
which has since become developed and released as Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer as part of the Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents.- Overview :...
suite of products. They also worked on an animation program LivingCels, an expansion of Expression, but the project was discontinued after Microsoft acquired the company, never completed (although a beta version was released).