trueSpace 4.0 was a 3D modeling and animation application from Caligari Corporation — a real competitor in the late-90s software market before Microsoft bought the company in 2008 and killed the product. The software lives on the Internet Archive. This VHS tutorial does not.
Tape ID: VHS-2026-539. Commercial release. Macrovision copy-protected. Condition: Good.
What Is It
An official instructional VHS for the Character Modeling module of trueSpace 4.0, hosted by Gary Davis. The kind of tape that shipped with or alongside the software — meant for people who needed to learn 3D modeling in an era before YouTube tutorials existed.
Gary walks through character modeling from scratch. Hands first. Then a shoe. Then the head, built from spheres. Standard instructional pacing for the era — slow, methodical, no frills.
Why It Matters
Caligari Corporation is gone. trueSpace is discontinued. The software has preservation. The VHS tutorials that shipped with it do not.
This tape did not appear in any online archive search. No YouTube upload. No Internet Archive entry. No forum post. The Gary Davis tutorial series for trueSpace 4.0 may exist only on physical VHS — and this is one of those tapes.
Lost media candidate. High priority for digitization.
Archive Details
- Tape ID — VHS-2026-539
- Type — Commercial Release
- Format — VHS
- Condition — Good
- Storage — General-04
- Digitization Priority — High
- Tags — Commercial Release, Educational, Technology, Lost Media Candidate
Watched Live
This tape was opened on stream March 24, 2026. If you want to catch the next mystery tape opening, we stream four nights a week at twitch.tv/90scraig.
