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AAA studio released version 2.3 of their render engine. FurryBall is unique real-time GPU renderer in production quality implemented directly into maya. You can see your render in real-time hairs, Maya Fluids, with bumpmaps, textures, soft shadows, reflections and refractions, ambient occlusion and colour bleeding, depth of field and many other features directly in Maya viewport. To this new version was added correct mirrored UV option for texture mapping. This latest update also contains manual grabbing of static environment maps and allows to hide hair guides.
3D Verve prepared a training course for Cinema 4D R13 consisting from over 13 hours of video tutorials carefully structured to give even a complete beginner introduction to working with Cinema 4D R13. The course is divided into four main chapters and an introduction to Cinema 4D to get you started with some basic skills; Basics, Still Life, Beach Ball, House and My Watch. You'll learn to model, texture and light a still life, a house and a watch.
E-on software famous for their Digital Nature solutions announced the immediately availability of Vue 10 RenderNodes for Linux, the company's first Linux based rendering solution. RenderNodes are standalone network rendering solution able to render any Vue scene including those with content from Cornucopia3D. This solution was requested in the past by animation studios such as Dreamworks Animation, Weta Digital and ILM to have a Linux based Vue RenderNodes.