3DS Max Plugins
Project Manager version 2.94.12 released
New features in Alexander Kramer's script for organising models, materials, textures and lights in 3DS Max include: (more...)
3DS Max Plugins
New features in Alexander Kramer's script for organising models, materials, textures and lights in 3DS Max include: (more...)
Breakdowns
ILM has released a new 3 minute VFX breakdown for Ready Player One. Watch it on YouTube.
Unity
Unity Technologies has released a new version of its real-time engine. Unity 2018.3 includes improved prefab workflows including nested prefabs, enhancements to the scriptable render pipeline, an improved terrain system and scripting runtime, multiple physics improvements, and previews of a new visual effect graph, memory profiler, and GPU progressive lightmapper. Learn more on Unity's website.
Maya
Ziva Dynamics has announced the latest release of Ziva VFX, its Maya plug-in with an offline FEM anatomy simulator for the physical simulation of anatomical elements like muscles and skin. Ziva follows an alternating development cycle with feature releases followed by optimisation releases. The previous version was a feature release, and so the latest version 1.5 adds several incremental changes including improved secondary animations without increasing simulation time or memory. To learn more about this release, visit the Ziva Dynamics website or watch a preview on Vimeo.
Tutorials - 3DS Max
Jesse Pitela has released a tutorial for Phoenix FD in 3DS Max demonstrating how to create a large scale water simulation of an emergency airplane water landing including all of the splash, foam, and mist parameters, setting up an infinite ocean, the ocean shader, lighting, rendering and finally post production using After Effects. Watch it on Vimeo.
Software - 3DS Max
Update A blog post has been published on Autodesk area with many more details and videos about this release.
Autodesk has updated the documentation for the forthcoming 3DS Max 2019.3 release, giving us a preview of the latest changes. Highlights include: (more...)
Events
The International Animated Film Society has announced that Ton Roosendaal and the Blender Open Source Software will receive the Ub Iwerks award. The award is intended to recognise technical advancements that make a significant impact on the art or industry of animation and this is the first time the award has been granted to a free open source software project. Read more on Blender's website and see the nominees for all categories on the 46th Annie Awards page.
Events
The team at 3DS London has shared a short video showcasing some of the many speakers that presented during 2018. Run by volunteers, 3DS London is a monthly get-together of 3D artists from the UK (and beyond's) advertising, architectural, visual effects, games, animation and interactive industries. Meetings are on the first Wednesday of every month where users are invited to share presentations, ideas, jobs, tech and projects in a friendly, relaxed setting. To get a taste, here are some of 2018's presenters: (more...)
Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy
Copyright ©2000-2024 CGPress. All rights reserved.