Software
Terragen 4.2 released
Planetside Software has released Terragen 4.2, the latest update to its software for creating realistic natural environments. (more...)
Software
Planetside Software has released Terragen 4.2, the latest update to its software for creating realistic natural environments. (more...)
Reels
Unigine has released a new showreel demonstrating its real-time 3D visualization platform aimed at creating professional simulations of transportation and drones but with applications in VR , archviz, CAD, BIM and more. Watch it on YouTube.
Maya Plugins
Peregrine Labs announced a significant update to its fur, hair and feather creation and animation plugin for Maya. New features include: a new tool for creating plaits and braids, Groom Deformation layers, the ability to scatter on fibres, refactored feather geometry, rebuilt grooming UI, an updated graph editor and more. (more...)
Software
Soft8Soft has released a new version of Verge3D for 3DS Max. Version 2.5 reworks physical materials, adds support for bipeds and character rigs, allows the animation of material parameters, adds support for more texture settings and anisotropic filtering and includes several visual coding ingredients. (more...)
Clarisse
Update: The Clarisse Builder keynote is now available to view online. Watch it on YouTube.
At a keynote event in London last night, Isotropix announced Clarisse Builder, a new addition to its product line up that is aimed squarely at high-end animation and VFX Studios. Clarisse Builder takes the same scene assembly, lookdev, lighting, rendering, editing and pre-comp tools found in Clarisse IFX and super-charges them with a node-based procedural rendering workflow that "allows artists to both macro and micro-manage highly complex constructs containing bazillions of polygons. They can do this at the item level or scale outwards to make sweeping changes at the shot or layer level, all in one viewport that interactively visualizes pre-comped final renders." (more...)
Renderers
Pixar has released a new version of Renderman. Version 22 adds interactive rendering at every stage of the pipeline and much more, including: (more...)
Hardware Reviews
With Microsoft discontinuing the Kinect camera, people are on the lookout for alternatives. 3D Scan Expert has posted a number of reviews of cameras suitable for scanning over the year, and has now published the latest thorough review of two new depth-sensing cameras - the Intel RealSense D415 the Orbbec Astra S. Read the review in full on the 3D Scan Expert website.
Nuke
Foundry has announced the released of Nuke 11.2. New features and improvements include an updated UI for adding nodes and parameters, improvements to the deep compositing toolset, a speed boost for the Smart Vector toolset plus a new mask input, an improved Project Panel for Nuke Studio, improvements to localisation python callbacks, and updated Camera SDK and GPU support. Find out more on Foundry's website and watch the videos below for more information.
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