I have uploaded cgMuscle 2.0 to the downloads section under plugins. I have received many emails wanting to check it out, so here’s your chance . Right now it is only compiled for 7.0 NT. We should get it up and running on Linux and OSX soon enough. If anybody needs a 6.5 version let me know and I’ll try and get that up as well. Also there is no documentation right now and not much error checking so it might require you to play around a bit. Unfortantely because I dont make any money on this, I’m allowed to slack.
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http://www.cgmuscle.com/news.php
 “Every Child is an Artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
The Computer Animation Festival is simply the best and most eclectic collection of computer graphics and interactive techniques in the world. Whether you are scientist or entertainer, superstar or vagabond, studio or student, professional or amateur, we want what only you can imagine.
Fascinate, provoke, disturb, and amaze
Fashion designer? Architect? Marine biologist? Cartoonist? Lumberjack? Electronic Theater and Animation Theater: two different venues to vent your imagination in front of the world.
Originate and rouse
Let the world know what you dream of.
Terrence Masson
SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair
Digital Fauxtography Inc.
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Genetica 2.5 comes in two editions, “Standard” and “Pro.” Download one of these editions by clicking a link at the bottom of the following table. For a more detailed look at what each edition offers, check out the feature tour. Genetica 2.5 is a free upgrade for all licensed users of Genetica 2.
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http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/download_gen.htm
3DM3 posted The Making of Aviator`s wife. Is a character made in 3d Studio Max for the upcoming short cg movie “Code Guardian� by Marco Spitoni.
About the picture
Aviator`s wife is a character made in 3d Studio Max for the upcoming short cg movie “Code Guardian� by Marco Spitoni, more info and trailers at www.cee-gee.net.
Basically Marco`s idea was to make a still picture/portrait of the wife of an airplane pilot, something he could glare before going to fight or in a particular emotive situation.
Inspiration came selecting some glamorous pictures of actresses and starlets of the past, at the end the more intriguing references I found were some nice pictures of Marlene Dietrich , I kept them as main guideline about the mood and appearance I would like to give.
3D Graphics Tutorial - Making of Ferrari F2003 GA
- First problem, the pattern are not orthographique.
So, i have made a cube with FIA data about lenght, etc the car have to respect.
File exe
- After, I have just build a basic spline cage, but I advice to use a polygonal modelisation because i had too many poly on air vent.
- Then, with a surface tool (threresold 1), I converted the mesh in editable polygon in order to clean it, trying to have just quadripatch.
- Next step is just adjusting all vertexes to get the better mesh as possible (N.B: use a reference with a meshsmooth is very useful).
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http://www.prodesignhost.com/tutorials/3d_studio_max_tutorials/
3D_Graphics_Making_of_Ferrari_F2003_GA.php
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3D Exterior Lighting TutorialÂ
This is a tutorial how to make a exterior lightning and render with mental ray . This scene was modeled in 3D max 7 and rendered with mental ray 3.4, the unit is in meter.
For this tutorial’s purpose, I modeled a simple scene with some boxes (simulating the buildings…).
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http://67.15.36.49/team/Tutorials/vray2/vray2_1.asp
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In Situ Simulation announced today the release of ISS Foresight 5.0, the Professional CAD/3D Design Tool that is bringing you to the future.
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What’s New
After receiving feedback from our clients and visitors, we have made significant improvements to this version. Some important features include:
- Superior geo-referencing capabilities, allowing you to insert objects, billboard, trees, forest, and roads in your model with accuracy and to scale.
- An entirely re-built Help system with easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials and animated walk-through flash videos.
- XML format allowing you to control the file format and source of your project.
- In the coming weeks, we will also be releasing Topobuilder, which will allow you to incorporate XYZ, DEM and topographic files into Foresight and modify them in real-time.
In celebration of the release of Foresight 5.0, we are offering it at an exceptionally low price of $235.00 USD, so your 30-day free trial is ready to be downloaded from our web site: http://www.insitusimulation.com/cgi-bin/en/try/trialForm.asp .
Foresight 5.0 Bug-Detector Contest
As an initiative to download the trial version from our web site, we have launched the “Foresight 5.0 Bug-Detector Contest”. We are so sure that you will be impressed by the new version that if you are able to identify 10 bugs in the software, we will give one free license.
You simply have to list the 10 items and email it to bugcontest@insitusimulation.com to get the prize. Hint: bugs can be both in the help system (e.g. missing topic in the index) or the software itself. This contest will last 2 weeks only, from February 8, 2006 till February 22, 2006.
About In Situ Simulation
ISS is a Montreal-based company that develops state-of-the-art visual simulation technology for land-development projects. ISS believes that 3D visualization gives public and private developers the power to make creative and judicious choices.
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Integration of virtual model into real photo is common task for 3d artist. The following house reconstruction tutorial solves such a task. The goal is to visualise final look of the house under construction. |
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The classical creation of 3D model and visualisation would be ineffective. In this case, the reconstruction of the front part and the following composition into photo would suffice
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http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=787
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Kray (GI Renderer for LightWave) version 1.611 is out.
Kray has beed updated. Improvements include:
Multiplier of secondary bounces added
You can find it under Photons tab “Multiplier”. It will boost the secondary bounces so you can use if for example you don’t want your sun to get blown out.
Faster blurred reflections/refractions
You can now control how blurred reflections are rendered. There is a setting in Misc tab: Blurring accuracy limit. This means that if the reflection blurring on a surface has a this value or higher, then Kray will only use irradiance map in to compute reflection which is much faster then doing the FG reflections. You can set this to 20% and all your surfaces that have blurring set to 20% or more will get rendered much faster.
Lightmap walkthrough animation
Stability fixes (MacOS)
Get it here: http://www.kraytracing.com
Forum: kray.vizualizacije.com
Just few days after the Release of Ver. 2.6 , Cheetah3d 2.6.1 Version is released and available for free download.Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modelling, renderering and Animation tool for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve. It offers many tools from powerful polygon editing over advanced subdivision surface modelling to HDRI and radiosity renderings. Support for many common 3D file formats rounds up its feature set. Cheetah3D doesn’t just provide a full set of polygon and spline editing tools, but also more advanced tools like lathe, sweep, extrude, boolean and subdivision surfaces.Cheetah 3D offers a fully integrated multithreaded raytracer too, with radiosity, HDRI backgrounds, ambient occlusion, anisotropic texture filtering, bump mapping, environment mapping, reflections, soft shadows, and more. Photorealistic renderings are just a mouse click away.
http://cheetah3d.com