 The Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Professional, Standard, and 3D update addresses several known issues in Acrobat 8 Professional and Standard software. Adobe recommends that all Acrobat 8 Professional or Standard users apply this update.
Improvements in the 8.1.2 update include the following:
* Closes some potential security vulnerabilities
* Addresses several PDF forms-related issues
* Addresses several accessibility issues
* Provides additional stability
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 Side Effects Software, an industry leader in 3D Animation software is pleased to announce the release of Houdini 9.1, which for the first time will include access to the new FBX importer. This addition gives studios a clear choice for interoperability with other 3D applications making it easier than ever to leverage Houdini within an existing pipeline.
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 Vanilla Pass Manager is an automatic and visual render pass manager. The passes can be composited directly in Max to check them, and the pass parameters are stored in the Max file. It works with all of the standard and 3rd party renderers.
Features:
* Automated, pass parameters are saved in one 3dsmax file, with only one click all passes are recomputed.
* Visual, passes are directly composited inside 3dsmax
* Intuitive, a clear interface, reusing your prefered renderer panel (3dsmax, MentalRay, Brazil, Vray...)
* Secure, the scenes parameters aren't changed, just keep working the way you know.
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 3D Architecture Animation Creator is a scripted plugin which can help designers quickly create animations, especially architectural growing animations. It gives you easy control over the creation of position, rotation, scale and visiblity animations for multiple objects.
The Pro version additionally gives you control over the speed of the animation, batch adjustment of pivot coordinates and the ability to add a certain amount of randomness to your animation.
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This modifier allows to create outline of selected spline shape and remove intersections
Requirements:
3ds Max 8 or higher
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 What marks out a truly great 3D movie? The knowledge that it pioneered techniques that became standards within the industry, as Flight of the Navigator did with reflection mapping?
Or that it raised the bar on the volume of effects work possible in a movie, as with Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace? Or simply that it told a memorable story? That was the question we posed in our recent poll to determine the most influential 3D movies of all time, organised in conjunction with 3D World magazine, the industry's leading community portal.
To qualify for inclusion on our shortlist, a movie needed to meet three criteria: to have a running time of 60 minutes or longer; to have received a full cinematic release;
and to include a significant element of 3D animation or VFX work, as opposed to matte painting or compositing.
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 LightRigger is a freeware Maxscript lighting utility for Autodesk's 3ds Max.
The LightRigger script runs inside 3ds max 3-2008 and provides a draft-quality, global illumination lighting system for the default scanline renderer. Unlike full-featured global illumination renderers, LightRigger uses standard 3ds Max lights and components to simulate only the diffuse interreflection component of global illumination.
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 PolyBoost is an extensive set of easy to use, but advanced tools for 3d artists working in 3ds max. The focus of the PolyBoost tools is at speeding up and streamlining workflow for the artist. PolyBoost offers a wide range of tools for creating various types of subobject selections as well as a set of modeling tools which will make many tasks in everyday modeling a lot easier. Included is also a Viewport texture painting tool, UVW editing tools and a set of useful transform tools.
Almost all parts of PolyBoost 4.0 have now been converted to c++ using the 3ds max SDK which means a lot for the speed and efficiency of the tools. They are now just as fast as native max tools would be! New tools in this release include Symmetry Tools, Texture Wrap, Cavity, Density, Dust and SubSurface Map, UV Space, SurfaceSelect, SymmetrySelect, StepLoop and surface offset for the PolyDraw tools.
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 Nimbus is a lightweight, experimental cloud rendering engine. Its far from complete and states that its still under development. The interesting thing is the python script for Blender that could make creating cloud shapes with particles more easily.
Cloud rendering in Nimbus is based on a method used by Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight, which is described in a paper by developer Niniane Wang. Briefly described, this method models clouds as particle systems of billboarded sprites. Realistic lighting is approximated using a combination of simulated ambient light and directional light. Ambient lighting is defined as a range of colors over a range of heights in the cloud. Directional lighting is defined as a range of colors that are mapped onto the cloud depending on the direction of the light source to the cloud.
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 DAZ Productions Inc., a developer of professional-quality 3D software and models, has released beta version of its DAZ Studio 3D Bridge for Photoshop plug-in.
Compatible with Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, and CS3, this new plug-in allows DAZ Studio users to automatically apply 3D imagery and artwork to any Photoshop project.
To help users build their 3D Photoshop library, DAZ is offering a free 3D Bridge Starter Bundle, valued at more than $ 230. The 3D Bridge Starter Bundle contains DAZ’s Aiko 3 Base with several textures, hairstyles, and poses; a Millennium dragon, cat, and dog; a futuristic car, and the EmotiGuy.
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 This plugin contains 4 new procedural materials for Max: Wood, Noise, Tile and Distortion. All of them are 3D maps except for Tile. They will work with scanline, VRay, finalRender and Brazil (not mental ray).
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 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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 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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