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Friday, July 28, 2006

RealVIZ's MMTrack FREE To Autodesk 3ds Max And Maya Users



- I think RealVIZ staff is working over-time, yet another release in this week. After launching Movimento and new Stitcher Product Range, RealViz a leader in image processing software development, has joined forces with Autodesk to offer Autodesk's 3ds Max and Autodesk's Maya users the unique opportunity to obtain copies of REALVIZ's automatic 3D tracking plug-in software, MMTrack, free of charge (normal retail price $560 US/490 €). The plug-ins fit seamlessly into the workflows of and users, and combines new-generation automatic tracking technology with an unbeatable range of features, enabling users to access this world-class product at the simple click of button. MMTrack for both 3ds Max and is an automatic 3D tracking plugin, which enables the seamless integration of computer-generated elements into live action footage by computing the 3D motion of the camera or the scene from the footage itself, feeding it directly into 3ds Max and Maya....................Link!!
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3ds Max Plugin - RapidSD 0.8 Public Beta Available



- Gruesome Arts announces a new version of its subdivision surfaces plugin for 3ds Max. RapidSD 0.8 public beta is ready for download. RapidSD is a fresh approach to subdivision surfaces in 3ds Max environment. Designed especially for modeling stages, it not only strikes with incredible performance but also unveils a new way of "touching" the surface, along with a lot of smaller but handy features. It’s not another Mesh/TurboSmooth. It's a completely new type of objects generating subdivision surfaces identical to what is produced by the modifiers mentioned above, but responding in real-time even with very complicated meshes having two iterations.
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UNFOLD 3D Version 5 Available



- UNFOLD3D Version 5 is now available with new features and terrific improvements. The main features of Unfold3d includes; Edges marking - Unfold3D got powerful tools to select edges to be cut. Mesh unwrapping - Unfold3D just got the best unwrapping algorithm at the moment. Surface adjust - Unfold3D will gives you an ultra low distortion uv layout. Optimized packing - When dealing with complicated meshes, positionning of all mesh parts often turns into headache. Unfold3D can do this for you by testing all possible positions and orientations for each part. Note that this algorithm is NOT a "bounding boxed algorithm", the border of each chart is taken into account to minimize wasted space....An UNFOLD3D Plug-in Version for 3ds Max will be available soon, which features Smart integration in your workflow without needing to export/import your meshes and will includes all the features from UNFOLD3D Generation 5...........Get yourself a Demo Version !!
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RealVIZ Launch's MoviMento



- REALVIZ, has announced that they will launch a new software Movimento, at the forthcoming SIGGRAPH Exhibition in Boston. Movimento is a state-of-the-art video-based motion capture solution "Powered by SMART", REALVIZ' powerfulautomatic 3D tracking engine. Demonstrations of Movimento connected to a 4CCD camera capture system will take place at the SIGGRAPH Exhibition (REALVIZ booth 419) from Aug 1-3, 2006.Drawing on REALVIZ' long-standing expertise in 2D and 3D motion tracking,and the solid 8-year success of MatchMover Pro within the industry, Movimento is a new software, which captures the motion of anynon-rigid object from multiple image sequences. Movimento offers users acomplete and flexible solution for facial, hand, arm and full-body motion capture across a wide range of applications, from , bio-mechanical research, sports science, orthopedics and engineering to behavioral analysis. Movimento offers users the possibility to combine 3D camera tracking and motion capture processes for applications requiringnon-static cameras (on-set mocap, motions spanning a very wide area, or acomplex environment) and to automatically reconstruct 3D meshes from thetracked data. Capture is non intrusive, as it can be realized in natural orambient lighting and requires no specific hardware in the scene.......link!

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SyFlex For LightWave 3D Is Coming Soon....



- Syflex presents a new cloth simulation plugin fit for NewTek LightWave 3D. All Lightwave 3d fans are invited to give it a test-drive at our booth in SIGGRAPH, #504. Also at our booth, new SyFlex demos featuring Sylene, with motion capture by House of Moves, clips from X-Man 3, King Kong, and many other projects where SyFlex was used to simulate cloth, hair, flesh, fumes, ropes, nets, and even wings of a dragon. SyFlex is a easy to use cloth simulator, which doesn't require any tailoring skills from the animator. There is no need in creating flat panels and stitching them together; the artist just uses any traditional polygonal object. Syflex is currently available for Maya, XSI and Houdini!
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PAP 4.0 Released and Available for free Download



- Plastic Animation Paper (PAP), is a Easy and efficient software package for doing . It will allow traditional to utilize the powerful and timesaving advantages of computers. Using PAP you see your animation as you create it, removing the need for line tests, cameras and scanners. After getting comfortable with drawing directly to the screen you never want to go back. PAP was developed by dennish company Krogh Mortensen Animation A/S as an inhouse tool but (they say) the interest from the industry convinced them to turn it into a full application....................download PAP 4.0!
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Improve your 3D Rendering in Photoshop (Bloom Effect)


by ofer Zelichover
- A very simple Photoshop tutorial by Ofer Zelichover, who explains how to create a "bloom" effect. A bloom effect makes the image look brighter and have a "hazy" look to it (see the above image). Creating this effect is very simple, and is done as a post render process in . 3dm3 has also posted a tutorial on the same line. Basically similar is used by lots of 3d/arch. visualizer in post render process, to improve their under-lit scene and sometimes used for only improving the reflectivity of selective objects in the scene. You may also use the same trick with any other ................Tutorial Link!
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Cheetah3D 3.4 Released



- Martin Wengenmayer, today Released Version 3.4 update of 3d modeling software CHEETAH3D. Version 3.4 adds many new features like animating objects along spline paths. This feature makes it extremely easy to create fly through animations or to animate a car along a road.With Cheetah3D 3.4 it is now also possible to drag and drop objects within the scene graph transformation hierarchy without changing it's global position. Just hold the SHIFT key pressed during the drag and drop and the global position of the object won't change. This makes especially the grouping of objects much easier.Another work flow enhancement of Cheetah3D 3.4 is the possibility to lock the parameter values of each single object, tag or material. So if you are done with a object just lock it's parameters and you no longer can accidentally modify it.Last but not least this update seriously accelerates the OpenGL preview. Especially scenes with many small objects can render up to 10 times faster.............Download Cheetah3d!

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REALVIZ Applications Now Compatible With Google Earth



- REALVIZ, has announced that it is nowpossible for users of their acclaimed photo-based software applications to display their content in Google Earth. Panoramas, 3D models, virtual tours and other photo-realistic material created with the REALVIZ software products, Stitcher, ImageModeler and VTour, can now be directly exported and published within Google Earth, pin-pointing exact geographical positioning,courtesy of the Google Earth 3D viewer. REALVIZ Stitcher, ImageModeler and VTour offer users of all levels aninnovative and effective solution for the creation of high-quality wide-angle panoramas, photo-real 3D environments and 3d models, to add photo-realistic panoramic and 3D close-ups to your Google Earth navigation.
For further information, please visit: http://www.realviz.com/GoogleEarth
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PipelineFX to Showcase New Qubic™ Version 6 at SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston


- PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™, the leading render farm management system for film production and game development, today announced that it will be presenting the new version 6 of Qubic™ at Siggraph 2006. Qubic 6 is a simple to use graphical user interface to the Qube! render farm management system that allows artists and administrators to easily manage their rendering and game build jobs..Qube! is the leading enterprise-class render farm management system for game development and film production. Qube!™ is highly customizable, extensively scalable, can be integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by 24 x 7 technical support. Qube! has custom pipelines for creative applications like Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, mental ray®, NUKE™, RenderMan®, SOFTIMAGE®XSI®, and many more. Qube!™ is IBM ServerProven®, and operates in Linux®, Windows® XP, 2000 and 2003, and Mac OS®X environments..........Link!!
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Evolver 3d Character Builder Set To Debut At SIGGRAPH 2006



- Darwin Dimensions Announced today the EVOLVER family of software products, providing automated creation of unique 3D character models for use in games, film, television, multimedia, education, manufacturing and corporate markets. evolver introduces dramatic productivity increases to animation pipelines by saving hours over building 3d character models manually from scratch. Darwin Dimensions will debut evolver at the SIGGRAPH 2006 conference in Boston, MA, at the Boston Convention Center from August 1-3 in booth #202. A free trial version of the software is currently available for download on their website................Link!!
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REALVIZ Launches New Stitcher Product Range



- REALVIZ, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce the availability of 3 new versions of their acclaimed panorama creation software, Stitcher. Targeting photographers of all levels from the amateur enthusiast to the professional, Stitcher is now available in 3 distinct versions:-
Stitcher Express 2 - for digital photography hobbyists
Stitcher Pro 5.5 - for professional photographers & graphic artists
Stitcher Unlimited 5.5 - for professional panorama creators
Stitcher is a professional-level application, used by thousands of professional photographers, architects, multimedia and 3D artists worldwide, and enables the creation of superb wide-angle panoramas for the Web, film, print, and 3D. Stitcher is also widely used by post-production professionals for the creation of 3D environments, matte paintings, reflection maps and textures for film/ television......................Link!!
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MODO 202 Coming Soon.....



- MODO 202 is coming soon, Brad Peebler the Co-founder and president of Luxology revealed in an interview recently published on CG Society. In Interview with CG society Peebler said; "At Siggraph this year, we are introducing MODO 202 - with even more features and performance. Our developers have further speed up what is already proven to be one of the fastest production renderers in modo - in fact we are seeing speed gains of up to 40% in some cases. This is a free upgrade for registered users and we also have posted a free evaluation version of modo for the PC or Mac on our website. It is a full-featured 30-day license. There will also be some great content on our website from Siggraph that consists of downloadable videos." Luxology has released Modo 201 recently some-time in late MAY. So, may be this continuous development of Modo features and performance makes it best subdivision surface modeling tool.
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SplutterFish Brazil "Rio" Rendering System V1.2.37



- Download one of the best renderer available till date, specially for exterior scenes. Brazil Rio (aka "Rio") is a freely available, personal-use, non-commercial edition of SplutterFish’s award-winning Brazil r/s V1.2 renderer for 3ds max. and Autodesk VIZ. Brazil is, at it's core, a high performance production renderer that supports many advanced features like area lighting, gi, sss, and much much more. Rio is distributed by SplutterFish for multiple reasons: It allows us to have many people stress testing our software in many different environments, it serves as a way for us to share with the community and to provide an personal-educational version that can be used by students and other hobbiests, and it lets artists, who are considering purchasing the full-featured commercial version, test drive the Brazil toolkit beforehand. Also try the below specified tutorial about global photons and regathering in interiour spaces.
Download Brazil 1.2.37
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Twelve principles of 2D animation by Tony White



- Here are 12 Principles of 2d animation, which are universal and can be used in any scene. Tony white says; "Although the following is essentially about , the material covered will present to 3D, Web and Games animators the solid foundations upon which their own art was founded... and, as a result, will provide tried and tested knowledge and methods that can be adapted to suit their own particular needs”. Have a look..................Link!
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Monday, July 24, 2006

3DS Max + Photoshop Tutorial - Digital Displacement


- Computer arts, has published new tutorial by Chris James, who focuses on the use of displacement in a 3D world, revealing the best way to mould its output into a detailed and twisted piece of digital art using Photoshop, 3ds Max and VRay. Chris explains, how to turn a simple model into a detailed piece of geometry and than show how to composite it into an underwater scene using Photoshop. He says; this tutorial (.PDF format) is primarily for users with basic to intermediate knowledge of both 3ds Max and Photoshop... that’s means every one can try this......Give it a shot !!
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ambientLight Release Vol.1 Of Mosaic Textures Collection



- ambientLight has announced the immediate availability of Vol.1 Mosaic Montage Tile Textures. There are 34 Diffuse textures in this Texture pack, and 15 corresponding bump maps for realistic surfacing. Each colour set has 2 or more variations including a plain tile colour with realistic subtle variations and a mosaic montage of various shades. The bump map is also recommended for use as a gloss/specular map to limit reflections to the tile areas only. The colours are all sampled from popular tile sets used in real world architectural projects.
The images in this collection have been created primarily for use in architectural visualisation and other CG projects but can be applied in many different areas. These textures can be used in any software capable of importing jpeg image files as textures. 34 Mosaic Montage Texture in High Quality Jpeg Textures, all at a 2048 x 2048 Pixel resolution, each with a corresponding bump map. Full details of the pack and thumbnail previews of all the textures and a free sample image can be viewed at: ambientLight.co.uk
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Autodesk Technology Puts the Sizzle in This Summer's Blockbusters (VFX)


Source: Autodesk, Inc. via Y!news
-Autodesk Technology is used every where, from Hollywood to Bollywood.. and From computer- generated sea creatures to entire virtual cities, digital artists relied on Autodesk, Inc.'s media and entertainment solutions to realize stunning visual effects for this summer's hottest films. The industry's leading post-production facilities delivered blockbuster action, adventure and dramatic content created with Autodesk's advanced visual effects, animation, editing and digital color grading solutions....Autodesk's Discreet Inferno system was used by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as part of its proprietary SABRE visual effects system to create supernatural scenes for Lady In the Water. In one sequence, a giant eagle- like bird swoops in and rescues the film's heroine. The rescue is shown through a reflection in the water. Digital artists at ILM used Inferno to create the distorted look of the reflection and to add lightning and rain to the scene. The system was also used to add shadows, mist and rain to a scene where branch monsters drag away a scrunt -- a dog-like grass monster; and to create the mystical ball of mud that Cleveland Heep, the film's hero, needs to retrieve from the heroine's lair in order to save her.
ILM also helped bring to life the misguided escapades of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. One of the scenes shaped by ILM shows Will Turner and the crew of the Black Pearl captured by cannibals and held in a round cage made of bones hanging over a ravine. Inferno was used to composite together shots of the actors filmed against a blue screen, a water plate, and a digital matte cliff, as well as to add birds, mist and foot bridges to the scene. The system was also used to texture, light and animate Ragetti's wooden eye. Autodesk Maya 3D animation software was used by artists at ILM to rig Davy Jones and the Kraken sea creature's tentacles.... Visit the following link to find out how Autodesk Technology Puts the Sizzle in This Summer's Blockbusters: , Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, Krrish and More...........!!
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Making CG Hair More Realistic



- Making Realistic hair in computer animation is one of the most cumbersome job, specially because of huge rendering time,..ask CG artists at Dreamworks, how they manage to create more furry creatures in Madagascar than in any previous computer-animated film. Now Researchers at Cornell Univercity has developed a new and much more quicker method for rendering Realistic looking CG Hair...... Text from thier site - Reproducing this visual effect in computer graphics has always been a challenge. Computers can create three-dimensional structures resembling hair, but the process of "rendering," in which the computer figures out how light will be reflected from those structures to create an image, requires complex calculations that take into account the scattering between hairs. Current methods use approximations that work well for dark hair and passably for brown, but computer-generated blondes still don't look like they're having more fun. But now Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic.Steve Marschner, Cornell assistant professor of computer science, developed the new method with Cornell graduate student Jonathan Moon, who will present the work at the 2006 SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Boston.
Related link - Realistic hair in computer animation ( Cornell edu.)
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Watch TMNT Teaser (Raising shell in 2007)



- Watch the teaser Trailer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), which will be released in 2007. This is the fourth movie, simply entitled "TMNT" come after 14 years of last release. The TMNT originated in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984. The concept arose from a comical sketch by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brain-storming with his friend Peter Laird. The 3d animated film is 100% computer-generated, produced by Imagi Animation Studios and distributed by The Weinstein Company and Warner Bros. Pictures. The animation will be created in Imagi’s state-of-the-art facility in Hong Kong. TMNT Release date scheduled for 30 March, 2007.......Watch Teaser now video
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Aaron Mcbridge In Action On 'Dead Man Chest'



- Aaron McBride, the visual effects art director of Pirates of Caribbean - 'Dead Man Chest' talks with Barbara Robertson in a recently published featured article on CGSociety website. The talented artist Aaron McBride talks about his past and how he grew up drawing, in his Hometown near Mystic Seaport. McBride currently works in ILM as visual effects art director and worked on recently released blockbuster movie Pirates of Caribbean - 'Dead Man Chest'. Aaron Mcbride has worked as Concept artist and visual effects art director on various prestigious projects such as, A.I, Minority Report etc. Check Q&A Session with Concept artist Aaron McBride on CGSociety.......Link!!
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3D / CG Contest - 'The Most beautiful CG girl'


- The Voting for the 3dm3 contest "the Most beautiful CG girl" has begin. So pick your favorite chick and vote for her..Voting booth will close on: August 20th, 2006.........ITS Hot out there :)
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Friday, July 21, 2006

Announcing WINNERS; CG India "Galaxy Explorer -- da Evolution" Contest !!


- EveryOne who have participated in Galaxy Explorer contest is Winner for us. On A formal Note,- CGIndia is proud to announce the Winners of its first online CG-Contest, "Galaxy Explorer-- da Evolution"!! We would like to thank all the CG-Artists, who has participate in the contest from every corner of the world and our sponsors for their support. We find very hard to decide winner between the first two places,......"Really" (we know you have heard this before). Now standup for a round of applause for the champions who stir their creativity and polished their skill to reach the Rightful place,.. where they "BELONG"!..Ladies n Gentleman,….. N’ the WINNERS Are............Link!!!!

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VRMesh v3.0 Released



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- VRMesh V3.0 Final has been released. The new v3.0 significantly enhances speed and adds stereo viewing, surface curves, new clay modeling commands, new transformations, and over 30 features for modifying models.VRMesh is a free-form 3d modeling software for arbitrary triangle mesh creating and processing, based on our industry-leading technologies: Point Cloud to Mesh, Smart Form, Digital Clay, 3d Mesh Editing, and Surface Curve Editing. Basically its key application field is reverse engineering and Rapid proto-typing, but can be used in game development and other CG pipeline. You can Import/export in application like 3ds max, Maya, XSI etc....Particularly its Digital clay comes very handy for fast detailed modeling and mesh smoothing. Visit their website to download a demo, you may like playing with digital clay once you got hang -off-it.....Link!!
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dynamite Voxel engine for Lightwave 3D



- Demo version of dynamite v1.1 (win32) for Lightwave 3d is available for free download. Some of the main features of Dynamite for Lightwave 3d are; 3D Fluid Simulator - Dynamite 1.1 contains a built-in 3d fluid simulator. The new grid based simulator creates volumetric flow effects which are not possible with the classic particle based voxel systems. You can render more realistic smoke, dust and flame effects. Rendering voxel grids is also much faster then particle based volumetric rendering. Rendering External Voxel Datasets - Dynamite 1.1 supports external voxel datasets . MR, tomographie scans, mathematically generated voxel grids or grids generated by external applications and simulators can be rendered with dynamite. You will be able to convert most of the 3d voxel data-set formats to the dynamite's voxel grid format. A small converter will help you. Particle Based Volumetric Rendering - Dynamite can render particle based effects similar to the Hypervoxels. The most important difference is that the dynamite comes with a more user friendly interface and you can more easily setup your scene and reach faster the results.
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ArchVision Releases New 2.5D Moving People (Middle Eastern) Vol. 1 Collection



- ArchVision, Inc. announces the immediate availability of a new RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) library, 2.5D Moving People Middle Eastern Volume 1. This compelling library features females attired in modest clothing, with and without hijab headscarf. Males are featured in modest western styled clothing. With a wide variety of different poses and expressions, this new collection is designed to add realism to 3D renderings and animations. Each RPC in this collection contains a 20 second motion loop that provides seamless integration into animations......Link!
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Maya Scripts by SeithCG



- Download Various useful task-Specific Maya Scripts written by Lionel GALLAT, the Supervising Animator (3D) of "Flushed-Away" and "Sharktale" (Dreamworks). poseLib.mel - Save and apply poses on your character (as a whole, or only to the selected controls). retimingTool.mel - Allows you to easily retime your keys by clicking on the timeline and punching-in numbers, and also to quickly add breakdowns favoring one key or the other, and much, much more. poseTest.mel - Load and save xSheets and do a key pose-test. polySmooth.mel - Sculpt low-rez polygonal objects while the hi-rez copy updates in real time. shotCamLister.mel - A GUI for multiple shot cameras. To be used with the shotCam.ma file (included in the zip file). changeRotateScaleAxis.mel - Allows you to match the rotate and scale axis of one object to another, in the case you froze the transformations and you can't scale correctly anymore (works on multiple objects at once)......and many more!
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PIXIE - Photorealistic Renderer



- Pixie is a RenderMan like photorealistic renderer. It is being developed in the hope that it will be useful for graphics research and for people who can not afford a commercial renderer. Pixie is an open source project licensed under Gnu Public License. Features include programmable shading, motion blur, depth of field, raytracing, scan-line rendering, occlusion culling, global illumination, caustics and many more. The current version 1.7.2 is available for free download!
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Martian's Renderman® Shaders



- Quite Useful Renderman® shaders written by Ivan DeWolf over the past several years. IDbrushedmetal.sl - This shader can use an environment-map (ala prman). This example RIB uses a prman latitude-longitude environment-map, called "a.tx". IDtooledsteel.sl -This shader can use an environment-map (ala prman). IDbubbly.sl - This shader is based off of Steven Worley's Siggraph 1996 paper. IDfill.sl - Simple toon fill shader with shadows. It is used in the toonStill and toonRotate RIB files. toon shaders - Uses IDcs.sl, IDfill.sl, and IDoutline.sl to do toon-style rendering.....................Download Shaders!
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Art Of Illusion v2.3.1



- Version 2.3.1 is the latest update of free 3D modelling and rendering software Art Of Illusion; lots of bugs have been fixed in this version. Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modeling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java-Virtual-Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later.This version is both stable and powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Some of the highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Digital-Tutors Released UV Layout in XSI Training



- Digital-Tutors, today announced the availability of the highly awaited, 'UV Layout in XSI'- a comprehensive guide to learning the fundamentals of UV layout with in XSI and the latest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists. Containing over 3 hours of project-based training, 'UV Layout in XSI' provides artists with time-saving UV mapping techniques, creative workflow, and a firm understanding of XSI's UV tools. A 30 day trial version of SOFTIMAGEXSI Foundation is also included - allowing artists immediate access to ...........Link!
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China commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Chinese Animation Films



- China is Celebrating its 80th Anniversary of Chinese Animation Films. A series of activities has been planned and co-organized by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Children's Palace of China Welfare Institute and East Movie Channel to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Chinese animated cartoon films, entertain children with classical Chinese animation films and cartoons, show the world the great Chinese culture, and promote modern Chinese animation and cartoon industry to a new height in the multimedia era. The commemoration, starting on.............Link!
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IT'S ART Magazine #0005 Is available



- IT'S ART Magazine #0005 Is available for free download. IT’S ART is a free digital-art magazine in PDF format. Every two months, it proposes illustrations, articles and interviews about digital Art. IT'S ART is therefore meant to be a relaying support for these cg artists, discovered across the world with the help of the Internet. We want the magazine and its web site to enable creators introducing their artwork to a new public, opening our column to the discovery to all that make artwork, from its origin to its conception and final inception..........link!

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Evolution of 3D landscape tools



- Our partner website TDT3d take you to a journey in past-n-back and shows you how 3d landscape tools have evolved with time. In this article TDT3d discuss about landscape creation tools from the beginning, since computer be involved into CG creation like 2D, 3D, Motion graphics,... landscape & scenery rendering or simulating is one of the most time consuming CPU task. The last 15 years landscape software evolution is quite interesting and Today with powerful computer and a lot of specs to create and render dream world, only imagination can stop you........Link!

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50 Animated Short Films On NFB


- The National Film Board of Canada has put 50 Awesome Animation shorts on their website. Now You can explore this rich animation heritage of 50 animated shorts, including several timeless classics of the animated art. All the featured animation shorts are produced between 1942 to 2002..........check them out video
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Blender 2.42 Available



- Blender Foundation has released version 2.42 of Blender. The realization of the Elephants Dream movie has resulted in a big Blender development boost, especially in areas required for 3D movie projects. New features includes; Array Modifier - The Array Modifier allows you create procedurally duplicated/merged Objects, to make chains, cogs, fractals or even beautiful natural shapes. It's all fully animatable, with control-Objects defining duplication methods. Render Pipeline - The new rendering pipeline offers a wealth of new features. It has become tile-based and fully threaded, supporting advanced preview renders, layer-rendering and pass render, with a tight integration to the compositor. Material (Shading) Nodes - Currently most 3D suites have some kind of "shader editor", typically represented as Nodes or Trees. To easily allow current Materials to become layered or combined, but also to enable a Blender-compatible migration, a hybrid version has been implemented in Blender now and many more noticeable features.......... release notes here !!
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Monday, July 17, 2006

THE123D Released RUGS-KIT, A Textures and 3ds Max Models Collection



- THE123D releases its latest product - The RUGS-KIT is a versatile set of 21 high quality JPEG rug- textures and ready to use to add richness & detail to your interior rendering projects. Can be used in Any 3D modeling program - all textures suppled with matching Alpha maps. Notes: 21 High quality JPEG Textures with matching Alpha maps ! All rug are also supplied as ready to use models in .max and .max Vray file formats ! No cleaning up necessary, just drop your models into your scene and start rendering. File formats: .jpeg & .max & .max . The .max full scene 3d model includes all lighting, GI and material setups necessary for Vray. All objects are also supplied as individual .max scanline models. Bonus files include two high resolution seemless texture......Link!

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Maya Tutorial - Flowing water Animation



- New tutorial about Creating a Flowing Water Effect in Maya using "Particles", written by Aziz Khan. This Maya tutorial will teach you how to manipulate the flow of particles from a shower head into a tub as particles collide with the surface of the tub in a water-like motion. We will use 'Particles' which are commonly used to create visual effects such as smoke, water, fire and various types of explosions similar to those that could be seen in the movies..........Link!!

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Government Of India Have Banned CGIndia And Other Blogs Hosted On Blogspot.Com


Users living in India may face difficulty accessing and other blogs on blogspot.Com!
- Last two days, i have tried every trick i know to access my blog hosted on blogspot.com and later find out, all the website/blogs hosted on blogspot.com are Banned by some ISPs on the direction of "Government of India". Government of India issued a notice asking Indian Internet Service Providers to block access to certain blogs hosted on blogspot.com. The lazy Ass ISP providers have blocked all the weblogs hosted on blogspot.com instead of blocking those blogs which are asked by the Indian Government to block their access. Bloggers of Our neighboring country Pakistan is also facing the same problem since last couple of months. This is Ironic, its like locking good people inside their houses because they cant control the bad people out there!. This problem is quite serious not because users from certain region wont be able to access your weblog, Instead its about your freedom and speaking your Mind....I am quite frustrated and so does the couple of hundred thousand bloggers in India....Anyways not all that is went wrong, Blogger.com is still working and that means, We will still be able to publish new post and keeps on updating CGIndia. As for the CGIndia visitors living in India; Meanwhile you can access our weblog using any translation service like google translation service and babelfish.altavista.com till this problem sort-out.
URL- http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=it_en&trurl=http://cgindia.blogspot.com/
[Note: you can visit other blogs hosted on blogspot.com using above URL by replacing word "CGIndia" with the blog name you want to visit.]
Good day all ......Sorry for the Inconvenience!!
Staff - CGIndia
www.cg-india.com
CGIndia - an Independent Online publication

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ArchVision Releases New 3D Casual People Collection



- ArchVision, Inc. announces the immediate availability of a new RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) library, Casual People Volume 10. Featuring casual summer styles, this RPC collection will further enhance your entourage choices. With a sundry of different poses and expressions, this new collection is designed to add variety and realism to 3D renderings and animations. RPC is the industry standard format for managing image-based content and is supported natively or via plug-in by the world’s leading 3D visualization applications including Discreet’s 3ds max, Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk ADT, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Revit, Bentley MicroStation, Alias Maya, Newtek’s Lightwave, Maxon’s Cinema 4D, Robert McNeel & Associates AccuRender, Adobe Photoshop and others.....Link!
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