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Free DigitalTutors training in 3DArtist

DigitalTutors and ZBrushIn the latest issue of 3DArtist 29 is a completely free training tutorial from DigitalTutors, Rendering Enhancements in Zbrush. The only thing you need to get this tutorial is to buy the 29th issue of 3DArtist and you will find the training on the DVD. The tutorial itself is about rendering and presentation of artwork did in Zbrush. The new rendering features of Zbrush 4 are now on a very high level and for a high quality render you don’t need to use any other 3D software.  The course covers several topics like ambient occlusion rendering, adding subsurface scattering effects to our ZBrush models, rendering transparent refractive surfaces, rendering our ZBrush artwork into multiple passes for compositing purposes.

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Be a part of Chaos Group Demo Reel

3ds Max

Chaos Group offers a posibility to join to Chaos Group Demo Reel and show your talent in 3D modeling. You can submit your feature film, vfx, commercial, animations and games projects, which was done with V-Ray for 3ds Max and V-Ray for Maya. The Demo Reel will be distinguished in 3 main parts covering the following industries: Automotive Design, Feature Film & VFX, and Architectural Design. 

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GrowFX 1.7.0 released

3ds Max

Today is released new version of this plugin, which give users a unique opportunity to create the wind animation of the plants easily and quickly. New version consider e.g. support for the Nitrous viewport display mode in 3ds Max 2012 or new option Flip normals for Leaves mesh which allows you to invert the normals of polygons in leaves.

 

 

 

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Realism in Vue

Vue modeling

Realism in Vue takes a look at how nature works and interprets those rules into the Vue paradigm. Covering the core pillars of nature found in Vue - Atmosphere, EcoSystem, HyperTerrain, Material, and Terrain - this approach will dramatically increase your practical knowledge of and confidence in the technology. 

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New improvements in Pdplayer

Pdplayer chaos groupPdplayer is a professional image sequence player and viewer for the 3D, CG and VFX industry, created by Asynthetic and distributed by Chaos Software. Pdplayer supports most of the standards used in the industry including HDR, DPX, R3D, TGA and many more. Multiple layers can be color-corrected and composed together in real time.