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• Preview RandomControl Arion
• E-on Software Uncovers Vue 8.5
• Life in 2050 Ident
• Bubbles
• Script: Render 3D

Preview RandomControl Arion Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT Arion is the new software developed by RandomControl company - mostly known for their other product - fryrender. Arion is able to use all the GPUs and CPUs in your system at the same time, as well as on other machines among the LAN network. This concept makes Arion the first hybrid-accelerated unbiased rendering engine. Jakub Dabrowsk wrote down an article Preview the version Arion ver 1.0.01 CHECK IT HERE! Related links: evermotion.org

E-on Software Uncovers Vue 8.5 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:18 AM PDT April 15, 2010. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, maker of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, pre-released today Vue 8.5 xStream and Infinite, its professional solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments. New features of Vue 8.5 Vue xStream and Vue Infinite are the company's flagship solutions for the creation of natural 3D environments. While Vue Infinite is a standalone application, Vue xStream operates seamlessly inside 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, LightWave and Cinema4D. Specifically designed for graphics professionals, these products combine a multitude of cutting edge features that easily integrate into existing production pipelines. Release 8.5 of Vue adds a number of breakthrough features: Global Gamma Control: the ability to fully control the gamma in Vue ensures perfect coherence all along the user's pipeline and will result in much higher fidelity of color and light in the final images. Users can fully control input and output gammas as well as the gamma used for displaying textures and colors inside the application. Interactive Cloud Control: cloud layers can be manipulated, rotated or resized interactively using the standard manipulation gizmos. They can also be animated using standard animation tools. Animated Planetary Cloud Density Maps: users can define animated maps to control the density of cloud layers on a planetary scale (e.g. to create animated hurricane shots). Diagnosis Render Passes: users can easily detect rendering bottlenecks and optimize render times by using the diagnosis render passes. For each pixel in the image Vue can indicate total render time of the pixel, number of anti-aliasing rays, number of texture anti-aliasing samples, total number of sub-rays in the pixel, total number of shadow rays, max recursion depth reached by a sub-ray, and number of final gather samples for that pixel. Unlimited Material Painting: the material painting tool allows painting distribution maps with any arbitrary number of materials. These painted materials can also be used as paint masks to constrain painting of other materials inside existing distribution maps. Zone Extraction: specific areas of a procedural terrain can be extracted by simply selecting a zone and converting it to a separate procedural terrain. This is ideal to create customized textures on specific areas for instance. New Terrain Sculpting Tools: Vue 8.5 introduces 4 powerful new sculpting brushes: Pinch, Flatten, Plateau and UniSlope. Also new in Vue 8.5 is the ability to use a bitmap for reference when sculpting in the terrain editor. Advanced EcoSystem Control: with Vue 8.5, artists can easily control the influence of the color variations on EcoSystem populations, drag multiple objects or plants from a browser into the EcoSystem population list, EcoSystem painting can be constrained using the underlying EcoSystem material rules (for instance, using influence of slope and altitude or the coloring rules) and more... Improved OpenGL Engine and Viewport Display: auto-exposure is now reflected in OpenGL views, terrain maps can be viewed directly in the terrain editor, the display quality of EcoSystem instances can be changed on individual population elements, OpenGL preview displays normal mapped surfaces, the EcoPainter brush size is now displayed in xStream for 3ds Max and C4D. Other improvements: the Z-Depth buffer can now be (optionally) anti-aliased, preview a Dynamic EcoSystem anytime by clicking the Preview button in the EcoSystem material, the user may define his own shortcuts in editors (panning, rotating, etc – for instance to match settings of other applications) together with many other improvements. Vue 8.5 Available as Pre-release Vue 8.5 is available free of charge for all users under maintenance. Users of Vue 8 who are not under maintenance and wish to advance to Vue 8.5 should purchase maintenance today (they will receive Vue 8.5 and the Vue 9 upgrade free of charge). If they wish, users under maintenance can immediately download a pre-release version of Vue 8.5. Users of Vue 8 who subscribe to a maintenance plan today will also be granted access to this pre-release version. Vue 8.5 xStream and Vue 8.5 Infinite are expected to ship during Q2 2010. Customers who purchased Vue 8 xStream or Infinite within 30 days of the release of Vue 8.5 will receive Vue 8.5 at no cost as part of the Free 30 Day Maintenance included with all new purchases. More information on e-on software's maintenance plans can be found at: www.e-onsoftware.com/maintenance Standard Retail Price: Vue 8.5 xStream will retail for $1,790 with one year maintenance ($1495 without maintenance). A one year standard maintenance plan for xStream costs $395. Vue 8.5 Infinite will retail for $1,090 with one year maintenance ($895 without maintenance). A one year standard maintenance plan for Infinite costs $295. Upgrades from Vue 7.x xStream to Vue 8.5 xStream will be available for $595. Upgrades from Vue 7.x Infinite to Vue 8.5 Infinite will be available for $395. Annual subscriptions for Educational licenses of Vue xStream and Infinite are available respectively for $149/year/seat and $99/year/seat. Upgrades to Vue 8.5 are free for owners of active educational licenses of Vue 8. Site licensing discounts are available, contact e-on software for further details and pricing information. Availability: Vue 8.5 xStream and Vue 8.5 Infinite will be available in English for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, for both 32 and 64 bit, and on Mac OSX 10.5+ as a 32 bit application - Mac Intel only (a beta version of Vue 8.4 and 8.5 for Cocoa 64 bit will be released during Q2 2010). Vue 8.5 xStream is compatible with the following renderers: Mental Ray for 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage (integrated and MR satellites), V-Ray for 3ds Max and Maya, Maya Software, as well as the native Cinema 4D and LightWave renderers. Other renderers are under consideration. Vue 8.5 xStream adds compatibility with 3ds Max 2011, Maya 2011 and Softimage 2011. Related links: e-onsoftware.com

Life in 2050 Ident Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:17 AM PDT Created for the London Sci-Fi Film Festival / Life in 2050 Exhibition / Curated by Stuart Tolley of Transmission. Life in 2050 Ident from FutureDeluxe on Vimeo. Related links: Created by FutureDeluxe / http://futuredeluxe.co.uk/ Programming - Matt Pearson / http://zenbullets.com/ Audio - Harmonic 313 / Quadrant 3 Courtesy of Warp Records / http://warp.net/ http://www.life-in-2050.com/ This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Bubbles Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:20 AM PDT London-based production company Not To Scale and director Ubik mustered their talents for agency BMB and discount hotel booking service LateRooms.com in "Bubbles." The :30 advert presents the world's vacation destinations as microcosmic scenes contained in bubbles that drift lazily through a sun-drenched kitchen. The soft lighting, stylized modeling and texturing of the CG elements and cheery soundtrack all combine for a subtly nostalgic effect, channeling just the right mixture of whimsy and wonder. To know more about behind the scenes Check it out here. Related links: http://laterooms.com/ http://nottoscale.tv/ http://motionographer.com/ http://www.ubik.tv/ This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Script: Render 3D Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:21 AM PDT This 3dsmax script allows you to create 3D renderings • Supports ColorCode 3-D (Amber/Blue), Red/Cyan, Green/Magenta, and Stereo Pair • Animated Output (Image sequence) • See "Info" for general instruction Additional Info: • Download & unzip to MAXROOT\ui\macroscripts\ • In Max: Customize > Customize UI > Toolbars (under "R e n d e r 3 D" category) > drag to a toolbar to create a button • Pick Target Camera, adjust settings, choose output location and settings; render • The result is a composited stereoscopic image using the chosen anaglyph • You may want to invest in some 3D glasses TO DO List: • Add support for Vray cameras • Add more Output Format options Version Requirement: 3ds Max 9 (or higher) Homepage URL: http://www.thedour.net Download URL: http://thedour.net/resume/toolsmain.html Related links: thedour.net

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