3DA proudly presents "Off the Grid" Challenge 17 in our series of rendering competitions with well over $15,000.00 USD worth of prizes. Your goal is to create your ideal setting for the "Off the Grid" home you are given digitally in 3D. It should portray that which is inspirational about sustainable architecture/life style and touches us on some subconscious level. The emphasis should be on the context of the residence in an "OTG" location. The structure is to remain much as it is in the original model/scene, you are allowed to make modifications, but the structure must be recognizable in the end.
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Refractive Software has announced OctaneRender for 3ds Max, a new plugin embedding its GPU-based physically accurate renderer directly within Autodesk’s industry-standard 3D software. developers will promise, that OctaneRender offers fast workflow and rendering pipeline suitable for interactive editing and fast final animation rendering output by using max's environment for scene setup, fine-tuning and animating all parameters for objects, materials, lights, media, etc and all from inside 3ds max.
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Developer Hippolyte Mounier has released PhotoSculpt Textures Version 2 last week. This software is used for generating seamlessly tiled 3D textures from photographic images. Created photorealistic 3D objects or 3D textures are made from two photos. The software is capable of generating a full range of texture maps, including diffuse, bump, displacement, normal, ambient occlusion and Z-depth, at a high level of detail. This new release is fully multithreaded and contains 20 new command line options (interfacing with Photoshop, 3DS Max …) Version 2 also allows about twice faster sculpting.
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Autodesk release new 3d applications, that is possible to download. There are 123D Catch and 123D Make. 123D Catch is free beta software, which allows you to turn photos into 3D models. Powerful photo stitching technology is generating high-quality 3D models from photos made with any standard digital point-and-shoot camera. 123D Catch is available for Windows. Autodesk 123D Make Technology Preview turns 3D model into a pattern of flat parts that can be cut and assembled into an artful creation.
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Also this Sunday we focused on VFX in recently released movies. This time portal Art of VFX made an interview with Eric Robinson, who is a product manager in Mr. X and asked him about part of Mr. X on Three Musketeers. Robinson`s team (100 peoples) was responsible for creating seamless set extensions and entirely digital environments., e.g. the Notre Dame roof fight sequence. Especially for this sequence team created a CG replica of Notre Dame and the surrounding 360 degrees vantage point of Paris below.