A new issue of 3D Artist magazine is out and it should be already being prepared to sale. In this issue you will find car animation tutorial from the awesome artist André Kutscherauer, who explained how is he using the 3ds Max plug-in MadCar to get your models moving. Exclusive Demo MadCar 3 is on cover disc to this issue. If you interest to lighting, posing, texturing, shading, colour testing and to create an incredible final image, you sure don`t miss second and final part of Andrew Hickinbottom’s tutorial for the beautiful Belle.
Today Evermotion released the vol. 5 of their HDModels Cars. The a package include 10 highly detailed and shadered models of Cars; Mini Cooper S, Mercedes ML 500, Mercedes SLS AMG, Bentley Continental Supersports, BMW 6, Audi A8, Lamborghini Gallardo, Ferrari 458 Italia, Porsche Panamera and Land Rover Range Rover. The models are ready to render but the package don’t include any HDRi map or environment, this part you have to do yourself. The pack is download only and includes 10 cars of size 2,28 GB.
R&D Group announced the starting of a beta test for their VRayScatter now developing for Autodesk Maya. This new product will join the features and advantages of VRayScatter and MultiScatter and bring it to Maya environment. If you have any request for this beta testing you can directly contact R&D Group at: mail(at)rendering.ru. MultiScatter is based on VrayScatter and brings the ability to work not only with V-Ray but also with MentalRay. The plugin have multi-core support and can use any available core on the machine on which the user use the plugin.
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