ZBrush
ZBrush 2018.1 released
Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrush 2018.1. The latest update focuses on improving stability and fixing bugs but has a few new features added too, including:
ZBrush
Pixologic has announced the release of ZBrush 2018.1. The latest update focuses on improving stability and fixing bugs but has a few new features added too, including:
Articles
Neil Blevins has posted an article sharing tips for the creation of an art book. The detailed post shares the information he wished he had known before creating The Story of Inc, with a focus on the organisational and business aspects of the project. Read it on neilblevins.com.
Renderers
Chaos Group has posted a new blog post explaining the ins and outs of denoising in a production environment. Read it on the Chaos Group blog.
Software
In an article on Cartoon Brew, it was revealed that Mercenaries Engineering (the developers of Guerilla Render) in partnership with TeamTO are developing new software applications to help create and animate the characters for the upcoming animated series Mighty Mike & The Wild Bunch. Overmind is a production management tool and more excitingly Rumba is a new animation tool. (more...)
Resources
Rob Tuytel has launched Texture Haven, a completely free to use crowd-funded PBR texture site. All the materials come with bump, displacement, normal, specular, diffuse and roughness maps available under a CC0 public domain license. Assets can be downloaded without an account. (more...)
Resources
Kitbash 3D has released a new asset library of futuristic slum buildings and modular architectural components, created to rapidly populate scenes. This is the second collection to include textures created by textures.com, but all models are UV unwrapped ready for tileable maps should you wish to change them. This is now the thirteenth library from Kitbash 3D whose collections also include Fairy Tale, Space Colony, Utopia, Victoria, Neo Tokyo, Art Deco, Gothic and many more. The kit costs $199, and a 50% discount applies by entering "DAY1" at the checkout during the first 24 hours of sale. Find out more on Kitbash3D's website.
3DS Max Scripts
Rune Spaans has released a new script for 3DS Max that sets up the camera data required for generating VR images using Google's VR Seurat system. According to Rune, the script "lets you setup rendered input data (a bunch of animated camera frames) from any 3ds Max renderer, with an accompanying JSON data file, which are then ready to be processed using the Seurat Pipeline binary to a real-time 6DoF VR file." (more...)
After Effects
Open source plugin ProEXR 2.0 is currently in development and a beta is now available for testing. The update adds support for Cryptomatte to the After Effects plugin, enabling users to decode masks that are created automatically using compatible renderers (including Clarisse, Arnold, Mantra, Redshift and V-Ray). The beta installer is available to download by following the links in the Decoders section of the Cryptomatte GIT repository.
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