I remember playing with 3D Movie Maker extensively. Me and my mate would make shitty movies usually ripping off James Bond or Indiana Jones.
I also used the other McZee programs, Creative Writer and Fine Artist, which were basically a fancy text editor and a fancy paint program.
It feels like we don’t have anything like that today, there doesn’t seem to be this type of creative game out there. I would have expected 3D Movie Maker to have unending sequels, like the one with Nickelodeon, getting more advanced with each decades pop characters, but it just stopped.
I guess I’m looking for kid-friendly versions of business applications.
Like Creative Writer is Word for kids, Fine Artist is Photoshop for kids, 3DMM is Maya/Blender for kids…
Not really comparable to a game/creative suite aimed at children in grade (elementary) school. This wasn’t about making indie movies on a budget, this was more like the Belcher kids putting on a show with cardboard and a Casio keyboard. 3D Movie Maker was a learning type creative sandbox for computer graphics, emphasis on learning. But it absolutely was not about learning the arcane rituals to get a prosumer open source computer graphics and video editing package working. It was more like a SIMs game where you wrote the script and placed the cameras.