ISSUE 17 Lights, Camera, Action!!!
http://www.blenderart.org/issues/
Published: 7/28/2008
Pages: 38
Size: 5.3MB 
Features Articles/Tutorials on Making lightsabers using Blender?s composite nodes, 3 Strip Technicolor Conversion, Continue Reading
3ds Max 2009 Beyond the Basics
with: Steve Nelle
Picking up where 3ds Max 2009 Essential Training left off, 3ds Max 2009 Beyond the Basics thoroughly explores materials, lights and cameras, animation techniques, rendering, special FX, and more. Those new to 3D animation will gain the most by simply working through the chapters in sequence, while experienced users can jump directly to a particular subject of interest. Lessons are reinforced with projects that apply each new technique to a real-world scenario. Instructor Steve Nelle also shares valuable tips and insights gained during his years of working as a professional animator. As he says, “There’s a lot more to becoming an animator than simply knowing which button to push!” Example files accompany the course. Continue Reading
Creativity Extension for Autodesk 3ds Max 2009
The Autodesk? 3ds Max? Creativity Extension delivers a host of innovations to help you expand the scope of your film, games, broadcast and television productions, while you quickly and intelligently optimize your models in real time. Add a whole new dimension of realism to your work through the addition of sophisticated – particle effects. You can also incorporate audio and sound effects into your animated scenes.
Polygon Cruncher for Max
Particle Flow Tool Box
Boomer Labs Soundtrax
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Duber training DVD | Texture painting – portrait of a girl
To finish the series, duber training created a comprehensive Photoshop CS 2 training DVD for those that struggle with texture painting.
It is an unwritten rule that the better your textures are, the better your models look. And again, we continue to bring the best possible training to you. We never compromise on the quality of our work, same applies to this DVD. loocas will not only show you how to completely paint textures from a few photograps on your UV layouts, but he also talks and shows things that are a bit beyond pure texture painting, for example, he explains how to decide what size of textures you need for your meshes, how to setup your custom brushes, how to work with alphas and blend modes. All you need for painting your own textures from photographs is explained on this DVD. Everything is divided into logical chapters for better and faster navigation throughout the content.
Seamless Texture Creator is a easy-to-use tool for creating seamless-tileable textures from existing images. Continue Reading
Maxwell Render 1.7 is here!
this new version which brings several new and improved features, including a new Physical Sky system, a new Sub-Surface Scattering component, and improvements in the Material Editor, the plug-ins and Maxwell Studio. Continue Reading
2008, April 19th, Sofia – Chaos Software announced today the immediate availability of the next version of V-Ray – 1.50.SP2 (1.50 service pack 2)
The V-Ray 1.5 Service Pack 2 is compatible with Autodesk? 3ds Max 2009? and Autodesk? 3ds Max Design 2009
The update also includes several new features, for example VRayIES photometric light; VRaySimbiontMtl material for direct rendering of DarkTree materials; VRayShadowMap shadow generator for standard light for reduction of flickering of VRayFur; the VRay_ExtraTex render element for generating ambient occlusion passes, UVW channel passes etc.
There are many modifications and improvements of existing features. The complete list with all details can be found in the changelog file, part of the installation and customers can be also referred to the information provided in the V-Ray help index.
The V-Ray 1.5 Service Pack 2 is compatible with Autodesk? 3ds Max 2009? and Autodesk? 3ds Max Design 2009?.
The update also includes several new features, for example VRayIES photometric light; VRaySimbiontMtl material for direct rendering of DarkTree materials; VRayShadowMap shadow generator for standard light for reduction of flickering of VRayFur; the VRay_ExtraTex render element for generating ambient occlusion passes, UVW channel passes etc. There are many modifications and improvements of existing features. The complete list with all details can be found in the changelog file, part of the installation and customers can be also referred to the information provided in the V-Ray help index.
Build 1.50.SP2 (11 April 2008)
(cumulative changelog since build 1.50.SP1)
Have you ever wondered how does the professional set-up of HI-END rendering? Archinteriors gives you this possibility. Look how does it look from the backstage. Buy Archinteriors DVD and learn commercial rendering set-up. Make money from professional visualizations.
Archinteriors vol. 13 comprises of 10 textured and shadered visualization scenes ready to be rendered.
Power NURBS / Power Translators 5.0 introduces the following new features:
? 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Design 2009 Support, (including 64 Bit processing)
? Major Performance Improvements
Version 5.0 contains significant performance improvements for the most common operations. Interactive editing performance is greatly improved, as well as rendering performance and mesh generation. In addition, version 5.0 takes advantage of modern multi-processor architectures by supporting multi-threading of highly compute intensive operations. So customers with multi-core machines will see huge performance improvements.
Evermotion Archmodels Vol 53
This collection comes with 70 models of office furniture.
