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Monday, December 13, 2010

The Pixel Farm Releases Free Airgrade colour-grading App


+ Now everyone can enjoy the art of colour grading their images with Airgrade (www.airgrade.co.uk), the new, free-of-charge, colour-grading engine that's remote-controlled from an iPhone, created by The Pixel Farm Ltd, the developers of film industry-renowned VFX software. Starting from scratch, users can become a true film master or colossus of colour. Whether they aspire to be a Da Vinci or a Pablo, Airgrade opens a pandora's box of colour, letting them bring real lustre to their images. From a base, 'one light' grade, to full-on 'look creation', Airgrade helps remove the mystique of colour grading to show that it's not all black magic. Airgrade emulates professional film and TV grading tools, and combines a powerful Mac-based grading engine, with a fun and easy-to-use wireless remote control on the iPhone.
For the home enthusiast wanting to learn grading tools, all the way up to a professional Colourist, DOP or VFX artist experimenting with looks on-set, Airgrade puts industry-standard colour science at their fingertips. To grade an image using Airgrade, users roll a 3D trackball and rotate a radial wheel on their iPhone to adjust precise tonal ranges using Lift, Gamma, Gain controls – recognised by professional colourists as Shadow, Midtone and Highlights – plus a Saturation control for overall colour intensity. The result appears interactively on their Mac, and on any other connected monitoring device, such as a digital projector. A shake of the iPhone resets the parameters, allowing a fresh grade to be made. When the desired colour grade has been achieved, Airgrade's colour engine saves the grading data, in the universally-recognised ASC CDL format (.ccc file) that allows colour decisions to be transferred between colour grading and finishing solutions, and this data can be exported for professional use. The graded image is saved simultaneously to the iPhone's photo album, delivering a fast visual reference. Users can get started with this powerful, fun and free application at www.airgrade.co.uk, where they can download the Mac-based colour engine. The iPhone remote controller is available at the iTunes store.

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V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max


Chaos Group introduces V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max, which is officially on the market starting on, 6th December 2010. V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is a complete rendering solution, which combines the power of the well-known V-Ray award-winning production rendering engine with the flexibility and exceptional speed of the interactive rendering system V-Ray RT and the even more impressive new V-Ray RT running on GPUs. The new V-Ray 2.0 comes with significant new feature additions and lots of improvements that enable faster feedback and final results. The pressure for more 3D stereoscopic content is demanding and the upcoming naked stereoscopic technologies (3D monitors without glasses) require 5 to 9 renders per single frame. With standard rendering tools this can be 5-9 times slower! V-Ray is fit to answer these demanding rendering needs! With its new native stereoscopic support it can deliver the re-use of GI calculations as well as shading data re-use that can lead only to twice the render time, instead of 5 or 9 times.
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SECRETS OF COREL® PAINTER EXPERTS


+ Course Technology PTR, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of professional, technical and reference materials, today announced the publication of Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities by Daryl Wise and Linda Hellfritsch. The book brings readers behind-the-scenes with some of today’s top digital artists, illustrators, designers and photographers who use the digital painting software, Corel Painter. Secrets of Corel Painter Experts is organized into chapters according to the artist’s area of expertise. Each chapter details the professional background of an individual expert and includes techniques, insights and resources accompanied by an image gallery highlighting their personal and professional work. Secrets of Corel Painter Experts features detailed, step-by-step demonstrated techniques that cover illustration, fine art photography, concept art, comic book illustration, manga illustration, concept design and fine art. A DVD of content and galleries is also included with the book. Co-author Daryl Wise has a long history with Corel Painter, working for several years with the original creators, Mark Zimmer and Tom Hedges, to help promote the software and its artists. He used his knowledge and background of digital art and Painter to write the book. “Corel has been working closely with co-author Daryl Wise to ensure that Secrets of Corel Painter Experts will showcase some of the finest Painter artists in the industry,” said Gérard Métrailler, Senior Director, Product Management Graphics, Corel Corporation. “The artistic style and expertise featured in this book do a beautiful job of reflecting the amazing things you can do and accomplish with Painter.”.. Mark Zimmer, Co-Creator of Painter said, "I found myself constantly awestruck by the singularly mature quality of the work presented in the "Secrets of Painter Experts" book. I can certainly recommend it to anyone seeking to perfect their Painter skills." For more information on Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities, or to purchase the book, please - Click Here

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