Wacom has today introduced the much anticipated Cintiq 21UX, its newly-redesigned interactive pen display delivering state-of-the-art pen performance and innovative ergonomics in a color-accurate LCD display. Designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of professional photographers, designers, artists and animators, the new Cintiq 21UX offers unparalleled creative control, comfort and productivity.
The Cintiq 21UX experience starts [...]
Pixologic is proud to announce the release of UV Master. A plugin for ZBrush 3.2 Mac and ZBrush 3.5R3 WIN.
With UV Master , you can quickly create high quality and artist-friendly UV maps. It’s as simple as 1-2-3
1. Select your model’s lowest subdivision level.
2. Click UV Master’s Unwrap button.
3. Actually, there is no step 3. [...]
Version 4.0 of the Lipsync Tool is the most substantial update to date. This update focuses on the user experience with new tools and features that aid in the production of high quality lipsync data.
Key New Features
Advanced Phoneme editing – Tweaking phonemes for 3D lipsync just got a whole lot easier. A mixer approach that [...]
Panait Mihai over at community.ro has posted and excellent written / video tutorial on getting to grips with thinking particles.
In the tutorial Panait shows how to make a Ground Breaking TD Tool, demonstrating how to build a fully customizable Thinking Particles System that uses a prebroken object and a helper object. Anyway thats enough from [...]
Revenue of $456 million up 9% sequentially
GAAP EPS of $0.21 up 62% sequentially
Non-GAAP EPS of $0.30 up 11% sequentially
Autodesk today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2010.
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2010
Revenue was $456 million, an increase of 9 percent sequentially and a decrease of 7 percent compared to the fourth quarter [...]
e-on software today announced the immediate availability of Vue 8.4, a major update to its award winning Vue 8 solutions for Digital Nature, available at no cost for all registered users.
Vue 8.4 adds many new features together with significant improvements to existing breakthrough technologies, and overall productivity and workflow enhancements.
New Features of Vue 8.4
The new [...]
Kodak has released the KODAK Film Calculator and Glossary application, the first of several Kodak Cinema Tools to be released, as a free download from the iTunes App Store. The tool determines the running time for any length of film in any format, or how much film is needed for a specific duration, making complex [...]
BOXX Technologies, today announced the debut of the BOXX Bantam, a compact, high performance workstation designed for budget-conscious design professionals.
“In the past, if you ran a large studio of designers or CAD artists and your budget didn’t allow for a high-end workstation at every desk, you were stuck with off-the-shelf desktop models that are completely [...]
Luxion, has announced the first release of KeyShot, an interactive raytracing and global illumination program that reduces the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.
KeyShot uses a physically correct and CIE-verified rendering engine featuring innovations developed by 2004 Academy Award Winner Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen. Some of the core features of KeyShot are: CPU [...]
Autodesk has posted some exciting new videos’s, on you tube, showcasing up and coming developments for 3ds Max. New features inclucde; object painting capabilities, 3D Painting features and render surface improvements, and “caddies” for soft selection.
Object Paint
Christopher Dring at mcvuk.com has posted an interesting article on consumer thoughts over the latest 3D technologies tipped to be entering the home by the end of the year.
As result of research conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of IGN.com, dealing with emerging gaming technology, it’s been found that 51% people are worried that 3D [...]
These dark wintery days are long and cold, filled with shadowy danger. We need a hero; someone who can shed some light. Step forth Mr. Inuit! Like a well insulated cross between James Bond and Batman – he ski’s! He bobs! He sleds! He even curls pretty darn well!
In this latest offering for BBC’s Winter [...]
The creators of the beloved ‘Toy Story’ films re- open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in ‘Toy Story 3.’ Toy Story 3 will be presented in Disney Digital 3D™ in select theaters from June 18th 2010.
Directed by Lee Unkrich [...]
A new and improved V-Ray for Sketchup has been made available for Mac and PC.
SketchUp is one of the most widely used and easy to learn 3D Modeling software on the market today. With V-Ray for SketchUp, users now have one of the most powerful rendering tools available to visualize their models with the upmost [...]
Good friend of studiohdrimaps and creative photographer / retoucher, James Goldsworth, has showcased some work he’s done on automotive renderings.
While I am interested in 3D visualisation it really isn’t my thing at the moment. I can’t take any credit for the modelling or rendering of this image. As far as I’m aware the image was [...]
Theres an incredible video out of the new PhysX Rocket Sled demo running on a staggering three SLI GF100 Fermi cards has been being showcased at CES2010. In the video below Alex Sakhartchouk, Demo Engineer at NVIDIA, explains the technologies behind NVIDIAs new demo running on the Fermi architecture.
FacePro has announced the expansion of its low-cost facial animation service to game developers using Unreal Engine 3.
“UE3 includes the FaceFX® animation toolset, and since we use FaceFX as part of our streamlined production pipeline, it makes sense for us to offer Unreal developers a dedicated program” said Rod Stafford, President of FacePro.
Included in the [...]
BOXX Technologies, together with Autodesk, Inc., today announced the introduction of a RenderFarm on Wheels (ROW), the world’s first turn-key dedicated rendering system. In developing ROW, BOXX engineers worked closely with Autodesk Consulting, an embedded services division helping customers address [...]
zwischendrin has released SnowFlow v1.6, it’s a 3D Studio Max plugin for creating realistic snow. You just pick an object and SnowFlow does the snow for you! Let the snow fall on your 3D objects and scenes with the click of a button.
SnowFlow is available for 48 Euro, although if you get in quick you [...]
Luxology has introduced a new Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit (SLIK) for it’s 3D software modo.
The SLIK is an extensive collection of presets, scenes, items, materials and video tutorials to help customers light CG creations. Designed specifically for users of modo, Luxology’s modern 3D modeling, painting and rendering application, SLIK provides realistic lighting of scenes [...]
CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. Based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.
The new version of CINEBENCH includes [...]
Hair Farm, the hair plugin for 3ds max, has been fully released today. The plugin, which has been designed especially for CG professionals who want to create hair quickly and precisely, has over 40 different tools for hair modelling, animation and rendering.
The plugin is available to buy and try at Hair Farm.
A new milestone of RenderPal V2 has been released, bringing it to version 2.4.0. It features
a totally new, highly adanved renderer system, as well as plenty of other new features and
improvements:
As already mentioned, the most important new feature is the new renderer system. Every aspect
of a renderer can now be defined, from its supported parameters, [...]
To make money selling 3D renders i’m sure for many of us is a day to day way of life and the way most 3D visualisers and artists make their their living.
But have you ever thought of selling your 3D renders through a stock or micro-stock agency. Now we’re talking rendered images here, not 3D [...]
There’s been a great post by VFX artist Lee Stranahan on his blog, commenting on the treatement VFX artists in general and by the industry in which they work. Definatly worth a read, I’ve included and except below but check it out the full article at leestranahan.com.
Visual effects films were dominant commercial forces in
2009. Films [...]
The video below is taken from Autodesk Univeristy 2009, where the acadamy award winning producer John Landau talks about how Autodesk products where essential in the creation of Avatar.
The guys over at Maxon have been busy uploading a bunch of quickstart tutorial videos (.mov) to help new users get to grips with their 3D software, Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D.
Maxon’s software has traditionally been faily easy to get to grips with compared to other 3D packages but these video should ease the learning [...]
Bunkspeed, announced today it has selected iray rendering technology from mental images to power its next generation software to be called Bunkspeed SHOT – the company’s revolutionary easy to use, real-time photorealistic rendering application. Bunkspeed SHOT vastly simplifies the complex process of 3D object rendering, putting the power of photorealistic [...]
cmiStudios has launched a brand new automotive rendering techniques video, as part of it’s cmiDirect series, this video is DIRECT to the point and focus on one topic at the time. Making it easier for artists all to have access to the information they need immediately without sorting through longer feature length videos.
The Automotive Rendering [...]
Topher Welsh over at cgtuts has put together an amazing gallery of images showcaseing some of the super realistic CG vehicles that he’s ound online.
I’ve included a couple of my favorites from his list below, but full credit goes to Topher (and the relevant artists obviously) for the reasearch s0 head over to cgtuts to [...]
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