Portal 3DTotal released a new book in to the series The Digital Art Master: Volume 5. This is the fifth book in the series and it’s featuring articles and work from 60 talented artists working in the Computer Graphic industry. 3Dtotal is giving away a sample chapter of four pages from the book and you can download it, for FREE!
Lightmap Ltd announced the launch of the HDR Light Studio Live plug-in for Luxion KeyShot. HDR Light Studio brings a professional real-time HDRI lighting tool-kit directly into KeyShot. It allows users to vastly improve the quality of their renders with custom lighting designs for each shot that brings out the best in the subject. With its simple yet powerful interface, 3D artists, designers and engineers of all levels can quickly transform their shots into works of art to help sell their new ideas.
Crazycover image is not only to improve the mood because of for many holidays ended today, but also a sneak peak of what you can await inside. In Cartoon Animals tutorial Jose Alves da Silva will be showing us step by step everything he did to create his jaw-dropping cartoon armadillo. Also Photoshop tutorials, tips and tricks can`t miss this month. 3DCreative magazine starts new Futuristic vehicles series, where Dhilip Somesh will be showing us how to take a basic un-textures car model and turn it into a cool still of a futuristic vehicle using tools in Photoshop.
Act-3D has launched the new non-commercial version of Lumion with a $10,000 rendering contest. All participants will keep some following simply rules. You have to create a movie on any topic but you have to use any version of Lumion (all are allowed). Afterthat you will send it before 1st November. However, remember that The movie must be 720p MP4 format. The winner will receive USD $10,000, with second place taking home $2,000 and third $1,000. The top three will also obtain a free Lumion 2.0 Ultimate licence.
Evermotion will release a new volume of their popular model collection called Archmodels. Archmodels vol. 101 includes 99 highly detailed models of modern cosmetics designs with all textures, shaders and materials. It is ready to use, just put it into your scene, but scenes are not included. This product will be available for download from 13th September, but you can now preorder it.
