Modo News

MGODI is an app created by and for the people working inside the CG industry to fulfill the need of companies and freelancers to easily connect with each other based on specific expertise or skill sets. When a company posts a job, artists matching the requirements are notified automatically. The app is being developed by Joep van der Steen and Artur Leão. It's free, lets you upload your portfolio and companies and people can easily post jobs. The app currently runs on IOS-based devices, an Android version is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2014. More on MGODI's website.

After the experience gathered in more than a month of launching the integration of the ORBX Javascript video codec with Amazon's GPU-enabled cloud services, Otoy is announcing future plans, including the intention to release the codec as open source. More on Otoy's website.

A new standalone application is being developed with the aim of redefining the rigging process. Watch a preview video on Vimeo.

The 3D scanned models store Ten 24 has added many new color full body scans to its collection. More on 3DScanStore.com.

Miguel Gómez from CICE interviews Maxwell Render head developer Juan Cañada on the recent v3 release. (Spanish|English online translation)

Download it from Peter Guthrie's site.

Solid Iris has released version 1.3 of Thea Render. New features include: runs both on GPU and CPU simultaneously harvesting all the computer's power, improved physical sky, full instancing support, Micro Roughness offers control over two parameters corresponding to the micro structure of a surface, sampling improvements resulting in faster convergence without losing interactivity, camera z-clipping, SSS and volumetrics, etc. A 3DS Max bridge is available that provides a fully interactive render engine; the Thea for 3DS Max bundle is being offered at a 40% discount until January 31st, 2014. Watch a new features video on YouTube and find out more on Thea Render's site.

Chaos Group have released a new beta for v3.0 of their renderer. New features include an intuitive skin shader that makes it easier to create complex layered skin, an update to the Intel Embree ray caster, etc. Read the complete list of changes (PDF) and find out more on Chaos Group.