Breakdowns
Assassin’s Creed VFX breakdown
Cinesite has posted a breakdown reel of their work on the Assassin's Creed movie. Watch it on Vimeo.
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Fri Mar 31, 2017
VR & AR
ANIMVR frame by frame virtual reality animation software
ANIMVR is a new software developed by NVRMIND that allows to draw and animate in VR, providing a set of tools based on concepts used in traditional animation, such as onion skin, multiple timelines, etc. Animations can be imported later into Unity. A beta is available. More on NVRMIND's website.
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Thu Mar 30, 2017
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Software
Vue 2016 R2 and PlantFactory 2016 R2 now available
E-on Software announced the availability of updates to two of their applications, the landscape creation and animation software Vue 2016 and plant creation software PlantFactory 2016. (more...)
Comments (2) | Posted
Thu Mar 30, 2017
Renderers
V-Ray 3.5 now available for Maya
Chaos Group has updated its website and posted a video announcing the release of V-Ray 3.5 for Maya, which was recently released for 3DS Max. (more...)
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Wed Mar 29, 2017
Images
Bertrand Benoit’s Still Life With Honey
Archviz artist Bertrand Benoit has posted his latest work online, a great photorealistic still life scene, modeled in Max 2016 and rendered with V-Ray 3 / Corona 1.5 / Octane 3. More on BBB3viz.
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Wed Mar 29, 2017
News
Petition to keep perpetual licensing at Autodesk
Long-time users of Autodesk software have started a thread on Autodesk's forum, protesting the price raise of the maintenance plans and asking the company to keep the perpetual/maintenance licensing option. Many high profile 3D artists are participating, including some who have been using 3D Studio since version 1. More on Autodesk's forum.
Comments (4) | Posted
Wed Mar 29, 2017
| source: Dave Wortley
Renderers
Solid Angle teases Arnold 5 features
Solid Angle have been teasing features that will be present in the next big release of their popular renderer Arnold on their Twitter account. (more...)
Comments (26) | Posted
Tue Mar 28, 2017
Breakdowns
Game of Thrones FX breakdown
Josh Clos posted a breakdown of the FX R&D work he did for Game of Thrones. Watch it on Vimeo.
| Posted
Tue Mar 28, 2017
