Elementacular 1.5 released

The interactive cloud sculpting and rendering plugin for Maya developed by The Alexandra Institute has been released in v1.5, with support for volumetric clouds directly into modern renders such as Arnold and RenderMan through OpenDVB. Elementacular allows you to design cloud shapes through Maya mesh operations while continuously visualizing volumetric clouds directly in the viewport – interactively and in high-quality. The export to OpenVDB allows the cloud to integrate seamlessly with the rendering of the entire scene – no more postproduction and composition needed to integrate the Elementacular clouds in your final image. Licenses cost $175 (incl. VAT) per user. More on Elementacular’s website.