CAD Team This third major Flamingo release is based on completely new technology. Designed to provide the highest possible quality images with the minimal rendering technology expertise. Flamingo nXt is also designed to minimize the time and effort required to set up a model for rendering. With nXt you don’t need to be a professional renderer … Read more
This annual competition, which is sponsored by Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. and MAXON Computer GmbH, recognizes today’s top architects and designers from around the world, and their abilities to visually render Vectorworks® models with Renderworks® or CINEMA 4D. Professional and student designers can submit entries to the 2012 Inspired Visions Global Rendering Competition. Submissions will be … Read more
Pixologic recently published another great example of just how important ZBrush is to the design workflow within a live action film and an amazing effects studio. Kevin Hudson talks to Pixologic about how he and his team at Double Negative use ZBrush to create the fantastic characters in the recent sci-fi fantasy film, John Carter. … Read more
Oversights from Christian Lerch on Vimeo. The main goal for Christian Lerch with this “Oversights” thesis was to view events from a completely different point of view. It was to be based on real-world events that he had found on an accident database, he then used Cinema 4D to re-create these destructive elements. Christian made … Read more
NewTek have announced that there is to be a LightWave 11! Although it won’t actually be available until the end of the year, LightWave 10 and 10.1 users can upgrade to the latest version before the rest of the public. New to Version 11! LightWave 11 takes the animation, rendering and powerful 3D modelling, tools … Read more
In this new update Luxion introduces all new time-saving features and improvements. This includes unique metallic paint material, material templates that allow 3D professionals to ‘auto-paint’ their models, interactive HDR editing that allows real-time editing of the lighting environments, network rendering to queue render jobs and spread them across multiple computers, improved animation interaction, Maya … Read more
Chaos Group are looking for more V-ray for Rhino beta testers for final evaluation of the latest V-ray for Rhino release. To download beta versions register at Chaos Group and go to the downloads page.
Vray for Softimage is the latest addition to Chaos Groups suite of rendering solutions. Some major features of this are: ICE support Complex mesh support using V-Ray Proxy objects Versatile shaders with V-Ray materials Quick and accurate global illumination. Others include: Shading with V-Ray for Softimage Create materials quickly and easily using V-Ray Materials, and … Read more
Zbrush 4R3 is to be released on the 28th February! New features of 4R3 include: FiberMesh. Significant advancements to the FiberMesh settings provide you with greater control and flexibility. Curve modifiers have now been added to a number of FiberMesh settings including: Length, Coverage, Gravity and Color Profile. Revolve has also been added as a … Read more
Symvol for Rhino – Community is a volumetric modelling system plug-in. The user can think of clay or metal when working with Symvol. It means a volume is a piece of malleable material, not a collection of paper sheets glued together, as an equivalent analogy to existing modelling systems. Whatever is done during modelling, the volume … Read more