 Holomatix Ltd. have released a new beta version of their upcoming commercial interactive raytracer Rendition. Holomatix Rendition is a very fast, interactive, production-quality raytracer. It is designed to render your scenes up to 10 times faster than alternative ray tracing solutions, at extremely high quality. Holomatix Rendition implements support for Maya, 3ds Max and mental ray shaders and renders directly from .mi files, as well as raytracing scenes from directly within Maya using the supplied Maya Plug-In.
Holomatix Rendition has the ability to perform interactive updates. You can move the camera and see your raytraced scene change in real time. When the camera is not moving, the image gradually improves until final production quality is reached. This feature allows you instant feedback as you find the perfect angle for a still image or plot the perfect camera path for a movie. Similarly, you can update shader parameters and see the results immediately. Holomatix Rendition includes a plug-in for Maya which enables you to immediately see the effects of the changes you make to your scene. This feature will significantly improve your scene development workflow.
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 Вышел первый в 2008 году номер PDF журнала Render Magazine. В этом номере вы найдете: новости CG индустрии, эксклюзивные интервью с Фэбианом Лоингом и статью "CG-event-2007: прогресс, секреты, общение", в разделе "Обучение" опубликована статья "Adobe Photoshop 13 Фотографии высокого класса. Реверс Инжиниринг", в разделе "Обучение Autodesk 3ds max" уроки "Motion Capture – своими руками" и "3D-сканер чужими руками, или лень — двигатель прогресса", галерею лучших работ "Выбор RM" с сайта render.ru.
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 Here a nice V-Ray Tutorial to generate the Anisotropic shader to create steel Metal effect . Here are settings for this material. It is quite simple, there is scratch map put in bump slot to achieve subtle brushed metal effect. Use cylindrical uvw mapping on each part of the pot And then convert object to poly.
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 A step by step Vray Rendering Tutorial on how to setup a Car Render using V-Ray. You can learn some new techniques involved for this car render.
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 Cheetah3D 4.4 has been released. It improves the MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatibility and should solve the last minor problems. Furthermore Cheetah3D improves binding a skeleton to a mesh. Now it is possible to bind single joints to a mesh which don't build a bone with another joint. That makes it much easier to use skeletal animation for facial animations.
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 Короткометражный анимационный фильм "Моя любовь" Александра Петрова был номинирован на премию "Оскар". Это фильм о любви и о взрослении. Это взгляд мудрого человека на порывы юности. В картине есть все, что может тронуть сердце чуткого зрителя: и нежность к своим мальчишеским стремлениям, и понимание, какие открытия ожидают юношу на пути к зрелости.
Герой фильма - шестнадцатилетний гимназист Антон. Он влюблен сразу в двух девушек, и ему предстоит понять, где в этом новом мире, сверкающем всеми красками чувственности - ангелы, а где - демоны. Антон, как и все мы - сам творит свой ад и рай. Он, как и положено чистосердечному герою - проходит через испытания к очищению и пониманию настоящей, большой любви. Любви искренней, жертвенной, исцеляющей.
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 Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced by Academy President Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Kathy Bates.
Ganis and Bates, who won an Academy Award for her lead performance in "Misery" (1990), announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 categories at a live news conference attended by over 400 international media representatives.
Academy members selected the nominees in their respective branches, with the exception of the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, in which nominations were selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to the 5,829 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation.
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 CGSoctiety and NVIDIA are pleased to announce NVArt - Art Space: Architecture and Landscape Digital Art Competition.
What greater dream is there than to live in a place that is pure art? To wake every day and marvel at the play of light through marvellous spaces.
NVArt - Art Space invites you stand on the shoulders of giants, like Frank Gehry, and gaze into the far reaches of imagination and technology. We challenge you to create the most awe inspiring architecture and landscape - to stretch the envelope of human experience and to dazzle the senses.
The competition was created jointly with the sole sponsor, NVIDIA, and has a prize pool valued at over $21,000. NVIDIA are a driving force in the graphics industry and this competition is a fantastic opportunity for artists to gain global exposure and a chance to win great prizes.
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 Los Angeles, Calif. Hollywood has been selected as the host city for the first annual Computer Generated Images for Advertising & Marketing conference (CGAM). CGAM will take place at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel - March 10 & 11, 2008.
CGAM is the first-ever global conference for marketing and advertising professionals focusing on cutting-edge technology and the value of Computer Generated Images (CGI).
CGAM clarifies the CGI world by giving you access to key, world-class suppliers in the industry. Learn firsthand the services they offer and their benefits. CGAM also allows you to see what others OEM's and their advertising agencies are doing in the industry. And keeps you connected with the latest trends and technologies, allowing you to be one step ahead.Be first to comment this article | Views: 1553 |
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 This patch can be applied to Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 only. The install program will not install over any other version. (example: Autodesk 3ds Max 9). The Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 Hot Fix should be installed on all network rendering servers running Autodesk 3ds Max 2008.
Issues addressed by this Hot Fix: The Outline function was not working on lines created with more than two vertices and has been fixed, Biped Figure Mode files ( .fig ) were not being initialized correctly and saving then reloading a .fig file could corrupt it so it could no longer be opened and has been fixed.
This hot fix is cumulative and contains all previous hot fixes.
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This patch can be applied to Autodesk 3ds Max 9 only. The install program will not install over any other version. (example: Autodesk 3ds Max 8).
The Autodesk 3ds Max 9 Hot Fix should be installed on all network rendering servers running Autodesk 3ds Max 9.
Issues addressed by this Hot Fix: Biped Figure Mode files ( .fig ) were not being initialized correctly and saving then reloading a .fig file could corrupt it so it could no longer be opened and has been fixed, Biped Copy & Paste files were being duplicated internally and causing file size to grow much larger than necessary and has been corrected.
Uninstall is not recommended for this Hot Fix. If you absolutely need to remove this Hot Fix, you should uninstall Autodesk 3ds Max 9.
This hot fix is cumulative and contains all previous hot fixes including all SP2 content.
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 Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
The next generation of DVD formats are on their way, and one of them is HD DVD, supporting HD 1920×1080 video, high quality surround sound, and many advanced interactive features. Michael Becker from Skywalk Mastering GmbH / Imagion AG in Germany sent an email telling that his company had produced the first ever European HD DVD title: Elephants Dream.Be first to comment this article | Views: 2314 |
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 Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile of the known metals. Pure gold has a bright yellow color traditionally considered attractive. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become translucent. The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red. Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and is not affected by air and most reagents. In this interactive video not only learn but also create a material online with instructions in 3ds max.
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 While working with any 3D modelling application or game authoring tool you have created or downloaded hundreds or maybe thousands of models with names like "crate1.mdl", "crate2.mdl" or "weapon01.3ds", "weapon03.3ds" and so on. How quickly can you see which one of your 30 crates or which one of your 50 weapons is the best to use for a certain project? 3D Shell Extensions can speed up your workflow remarkably. A folder which contains 1000 models displays thumbnails for all of them in about 3 seconds!
3D Shell Extensions is the set of Windows Explorer add-ons; they enable 3D models preview directly in Windows Explorer or in any standard "Open..." dialog box. More than that, you can preview your models directly in the Windows Explorer window; just place your mouse over a model file and you will see how it looks.
With 3D Shell Extensions installed you can preview all your model files not only in Windows Explorer, but also in all the major Windows shells or file managers such as TotalCommander or XnView.
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 From 3DCreative Team: Hello and Happy New Year to all of you from all of us behind 3DCreative Magazine! We trust that you all had a great Christmas, and we hope you’ve all been readying yourselves for our all-new tutorial series, as our five new artists, each specialising in either 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, LightWave or Softimage XSi, have been working hard to kick 2008 off with a bang with a fantastic car modelling tutorial series on the supercar, the Bugatti Veyron (tutorials start on Page 125). A personal favourite of mine this month is the article on the two amazing Snickers TV ads: "Race" and "Robosoccer" (see page 39). The guys from Unexpected in Germany have written a fantastic article on the making of the two adverts, which were created for Russian TV, and both the ads and the Making Of movies are available for download at the end of the article, so please don’t miss them as they’re really quite something!! We have two great interviews for you this month, as always, with André Cantarel and Herbert Lowis, as well as our regular Galleries and Making Ofs. If you were following Wayne Robson’s Post Production tutorial, which started last month (Issue 028), then make sure you don’t miss out on the finale in this issue (see page 85). We’ll have more to come for ZBrush users this year, so stay hooked throughout 2008 and we’ll do our best to keep providing your eyes with treats and your skills with workouts.Comments (1) | Views: 2167 |
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