Pixologic started this series with posting their own project. It was called „The Venus from the Rhone River“ and was made by pixologic french team member Thomas Roussel. He describes what had to do to complete this challenge. The biggest challenge in this project was in missing part of the head the sculpture.
StudioGPU released his render software MachStudio Pro2 for all users for free. MachStudio Pro2 revolutionizes the 3D visualization production pipeline by placing the power of real-time graphics processing in to their software. The MachStudio Pro2 use the power of GPU and an innovative real-time rendering engine. It provides workflow features which allows to control of cameras, materials, lighting, and more. You can import your model and animation to MachStudio Pro2 from leading CG software like Maya, 3DsMax, Rhino, Blender and more. You can download your full copy of this amazing software for free from their homepage.
The Blender for Dummies book about the fundamentals of Blender was recently reviewed and released as 2nd Edition. This time the author Jason Van Gumster is describing the new series of Blender 2.5x. The book is divided into 5 parts and 18 chapters on 406 pages. The author is taking the reader through all the Basics in Blender starting with induction the reader to the user interface and understanding how Blender works. In the next chapters he explains detailed modeling, rigging and animation, textures and much more. The book comes with a DVD which includes help files for the books chapters and useful software.
This free ebook, named Volume 1 of Anatomy of the Face: Sculpting the Skull, is a part of new series of Ryan Kingslien. Whole series is focused on instructional anatomy references. This free .pdf tutorial show us step by step how to create an accurate base skull and also explains the proportions of the skull.
Gnomon workshop brings a new Jeremy Engelman`s dvd lession, which is focused on modeling 3D figure. In this is showed workflow how to create a digital figure from model ar from picture. It is made by using toolset including Pixologic ZBrush®, Luxology Modo®, 3D Coat® and Adobe Photoshop® and render in Modo.
