E-on software the developers of Vue software for creating photorealistic environment started a summer special where you can get the new version of Vue 9 or upgrade your older version with a discount of 25%. You have time until Monday July 18, 2011 to get the discount and enjoy the power of Vue software. When you upgrade your older version of Vue you will also get a Annual Subscription to e-on software. A full list of possibilities how to use this summer special is below.
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CGArena published the third issue of their CG magazine in this year covering Jul – August 11. As usually the magazine is full of interesting articles covering the CG industry, interesting Making Of, tutorials and advices to the users. On almost 70 pages you will find interview with Patryk Habryn, a very talented and young CG artist from Poland where he is talking about his work and workflow in 2D and 3D. The magazine is free of charge and you can download it from the link below after you register to CG Arena.

This Jonathan Williamson`s book is written absolutely for everyone, from beginner artist to game developers. This book covers technical and also theorethical aspects of modeling charakter developement and provides an in-depth look at Blender’s modelling tools and includes information on modeling, sculpting, materials, lighting, rendering, and more. It is written in step-by-step tutorial style so working with it is really easy.
3Dworldmag published a quick tutorial about using vector displacement in Mudbox for creating high detailed stamps in sculpting workflow. In the tutorial the author will guide you and explain how to use and create stamps and stencils with vector displacement map. Creating at first a regular displacement map as a starting point and after using two of possible methods in Mudbox to create displacement with the same topology as the source mesh.
The Foundry started a summer sale on their NUKEX software. NUKE is powerful compositing software used for creating high-quality digital images using proven visual effect tools that enhanced the speed functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline. It’s a native multi-channel workflow and powerful integrated 3D compositing environment software. Some features which bring NUKE are speeding up your workflow, a massive tool set, 3D workspace and much more. The difference in NUKE and NUKEX is that NUKEX comes with a 3D camera tracker and more: