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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Autodesk® Mudbox™ Contest


+ Only 21 days left to submit your entry in Autodesk’s Mudbox Contest, which has been launched on 3rd December 07 and will end on January 31, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. Using the high resolution brush-based 3D sculpting software, Autodesk Mudbox allows you to shape and sculpt your surface as one would with a slab of wet clay. Enhance existing models to their full potential with a flick of the mouse. Show how you can bring a creature to life. There are three models from which you can choose to work upon. Using either Lizard, Human or Drago -- digitally sculpt precise details with fast high-quality brushes. Paint and add detailed texture directly onto their geometry using customizable 3D brush stamps. Quickly stencil images over the model and rub those image details into their mesh. Use curves to precisely guide your brush strokes, for that specific position you need to get at. Take advantage of 3D layers to mask and blend different detail passes and libraries of morph targets - and use interactive multiplier sliders to adjust the blending results you desire. The most unique and interesting character modifications will win.

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Monday, August 06, 2007

AutoDesk Mudbox 3D


Autodesk Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Skymatter, Makers of Mudbox 3D Brush-Based Modeling Software
+ Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Skymatter Limited, the developer of modeling software. This acquisition will augment Autodesk's offering for the film, television and game market segments, while providing additional growth opportunities for other design disciplines. Autodesk anticipates that the transaction will close in the next two months. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Skymatter is a privately held New Zealand-based company. Skymatter's Mudbox 3D software offers a new paradigm of 3D brush-based modeling, allowing users to sculpt organic shapes in 3D space with brush-like tools. Appealing to both traditional sculptors and digital artists, Mudbox provides a simple and fast toolset for creative modeling, prototyping and detailing. 3D assets created in Mudbox are often imported into Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya software for texturing, rigging, animation and final rendering.
Mudbox is used by leading visual effects and game development companies, including Weta Digital, Blur Studio, Cinesite, Epic Games, Pandemic Studios and The Orphanage. The software has shaped photorealistic creatures for the blockbuster film King Kong, as well as upcoming films The Golden Compass, Fred Claus and Inkheart.
For more information please visit www.autodesk.com/mudbox

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Gnomon Workshop Released 3 New DVDs


Features techniques for Mudbox, Lightwave, Maya, Design and Photoshop
- The Gnomon Workshop is pleased to announce the release of three DVDs by acclaimed artists Taron, Zack Petroc and Keith Thompson. Covering the topics of , Art Direction and Character Design, these titles are truly educational and inspiring.
The Secrets of Organic Modeling : Lightwave 3d Modeling Techniques with Taron (link)
The Digital Maquette, Volume One : Art Direction and Digital Sculpting with Zack Petroc (link)
Character Design Techniques : Traditional to Digital Process with Keith Thompson (link)

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Monday, March 26, 2007

CG News Tid-Bits


- 3DM3 publish review of QUIDAM, new product from N-Sided. QUIDAM is a new tool entirely dedicated to making one of the hardest tasks like creating realistic characters in 3D - quite simple.
- Reallusion released iClone 2.0, which is powered by advanced actor creation, real-time visual effects, and filmmaker power tools to create a complete cast of talking animated custom characters, clothing, 3D scenes and effects for creating animated movies. iClone 2.0 demystifies the technology of storytelling.
- Architectural Visualization Competition 2007 Launched. This year marks the 3rd annual CGarchitect.com Architectural Visualization Competition (AVC). As the only competition of its kind in the industry, the competition strives to uncover undiscovered talent through a series of challenges and qualifying competitions spanning four months.
- Digital-Tutors, an Autodesk® Authorized Publisher, today announced the availability of 'Maya Modeling Techniques: Interiors' - the latest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists using Maya 8.5, the award-winning 3D modeling, animation, Visual effects and rendering solution.
- KURV studios and SubdivisionModeling.com have teamed up with Wayne Robson to bring you Mudbox: A Practical Guide. The first section of this training video is 1.5 hours long and will introduce new users to Mudbox's tool set, interface and work flow.
- Archexteriors vol. 2 is out! This time they have released Archexteriors vol. 2 for only 99Euro you can buy 10 fully textured and shaded scenes prepared for rendering in V-Ray.
- A unique cast of characters created and designed by Clay Weiner for MTV that take us back to that time in life when everyone was a complete no one.
- Worley Labs has released FPrime 3, a lightWave's rendering engine with the focused goal of boosting LightWave 3d workflow even more. FPrime's already-fast raytracing engine has been updated to provide even more speed, even better multithreading, and optimized memory use.
- The Complete program for fmx/07, the 12th International conference on Animation, Visual Effects, Real-time and 3d Content, has been made available online at there website.
- DigitMag has published a Review of Painter X by Jason Walsh, who says; RealBristle functionality adds a new level of control. Handy new composition tools.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Maya and Mudbox Workflow Tutorials


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- CGIndia.org has published two very Useful and Free video tutorial for Maya and Mudbox Users. The video tutorials is created by CG Artist Ashraf Aiad; who shows how to create a detailed 3d model of a dinosaur Head using AutoDesk’s Maya along with 3d modeling n' sculpting software . If you like to share your knowledge with CG Community and have any tutorials, we will be glad to feature them on our website along with description about author and website link. Send your tutorials to cgindia[@]gmail.com.
Maya and Mudbox workflow Tutorials - Visit Tutorials page

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Monday, March 05, 2007

Skymatter and Escape Studios Partners


- Escape Studios and Skymatter today announced a joint partnership to provide sales, training, and support services for Skymatter’s Mudbox® software in the UK digital content creation market. Escape Studios with its unique blend of industry knowledge, training facilities, production expertise, and sales experience, is ideally placed to support the Mudbox product line and provide a solid platform upon which to raise the profile and user knowledge of the software across the UK.
Escape Studios’ Business Development Director Mark Cass said:
“Escape are delighted to be representing Skymatter in the UK. We have to be training and selling the best technology available on the market for our extensive customer base and Mudbox® more than falls in to this category! Mudbox® has been long anticipated and we are already seeing a huge amount of interest in the product". "Escape's reputation in training and sales is well known," said Tibor Madjar, co-founder of Skymatter. "We are excited to be working with Escape to bring this calibre of software and service to artists and companies across the UK."
Related Links:
www.escapestudios.co.uk
www.mudbox3d.com

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Monday, December 18, 2006

Mudbox 1.0


1.0 Now Available
Skymatter, a 3D software company founded by computer artists from Weta Digital and Electronic Arts finally released Version 1.0 of versatile 3d modeling and sculpting tool MudBox. After two years of production testing with several of the largest film and game companies, Mudbox is now available for purchase. A new direction in high resolution sculpting software, Mudbox is the first brush-based sculpting tool built from the ground up to address the needs of professional digital sculptors...So finally a worthy competitor to Silo and Zbrush has arrived.............find out more!!
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Monday, September 11, 2006

3D Modeling Tool ShapeShop



- ShapeShop is a tool for creating 3D models using sketches under developement by "Ryan Michael Schmidt" , a Master's student in the Computer Science Department of the Unviersity of Calgary. 3D Modeling Tool "ShapeShop" incorporates much of his recent work in interactive implicit surface modeling, implicit sweep surfaces, and sketch-based 3d modeling. The new features in the latest version of ShapeShop include Save/Load, Decal-based Texture Mapping, NPR rendering, and many more. ShapeShop now requires an Intel chip to run, as it uses SSE2 processor instructions. Otherwise, it should run on any Windows XP machine. ShapeShop v002 demo (6.77mb) along with Some sample are available for free download !!
Download 3D Modeling Tool ->> ShapeShop v002 !!
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Mudbox Beta - 3d Modeling and Sculpting Tool
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Monday, September 04, 2006

Introducing MoI3D - New 3D Modeling Tool



- Have your own Moment of Inspiration with MoI3D, a new 3D modeling software for designers and CG artists. Offering a blend of precision and freeform drawing tools, it sports a unique user interface that operates seamlessly with a pen tablet (a mouse is also supported). MoI is currently in open beta release. If you're looking for a fresh, fluid way to draw and create CAD-accurate 3D models, then [[download ]]the beta and give it a [try]!
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3D Modeling Tool SharpConstruct 0.11 Available For Download
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

3D Animation And Visual Effects News Tit-Bit's


- New 3dsmax [tutorial] by Augusto Lombardi on how to build and destroy a procedural wall.
- Vray public beta for Autodesk Maya Released [via]..you can download it by visiting this [link].
- Deadline a CG Animated [short] by Itay Greenberg.
- Download Free maya character [rig*] (by Jason) with stretchy limbs, FK/IK arms, facial controls.
- Mudbox, a 3d Modeling and Sculpting Tool new [Gallery] is online now.
- '500 wants you’ - Call for entries. designboom and [FIAT] international design [competition].
- Making of Raindrops; 3ds max [tutorial] by Paco Morales from Mexico.
- Luma Pictures produced approximately 80 visual effects [shots]for Zoom , the new Sony Pictures feature opening August 11.
- Rainmaker Animation and Visual Effects, based in Vancouver has bought Honolulu-based [PipelineFX's] Qube! software.
- Evermotion has released Archinteriors [vol. 3], Archmodels [vol. 29] and Archmodels [vol. 30].
- CGChannel has published An [interview] with Scott Robertson.
- Eyeon Talks to Mark Breakspear & Mathew Krentz about Rainmakers [Work] on The Da Venci Code.
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Friday, July 21, 2006

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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Monday, June 12, 2006

Mudbox Beta - 3d Modeling and Sculpting Tool



- Mudbox is a new friendly sculpting, detailing, and design tool developed by three experienced cg artists, a group of whiz programmers, and a beta team composed of some of the planet's top and gaming production companies and artists. It's a standalone application that, in our experience, slides smoothly into company pipelines and artist workflows. Mudbox's version 1.0 commercial release will happen sometime later this year. They are still accepting applications to join the Mudbox beta program, so if your company would like to evaluate Mudbox, contribute to its development or just make sure it is developed to play well within your pipeline feel free to submit this beta application form. For more information, please visit www.mudbox3d.com.
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