Turtle is the only product on the market that combines advanced rendering technology with sophisticated baking functionality in one integrated toolset.

By integrating the baking functions into the core of Turtle, standard rendering and baking can be handled in the same way. For you, this means a better workflow while baking and the ability to bake with all of Turtle?s render features. Continue Reading

VRay: THE COMPLETE GUIDE is the first book in the world completely devoted to VRay. Its aim is to provide an avanced support for the specialists in this branch. All too often we lose a lot of time searching the meaning of a particular parameter. Who hasn’t spent entire days trying to understand what was wrong with their rendering? Having some ?presets? is not enough: it is necessary to understand and have knowledge of the tools daily used. This is the only way thanks to which you’ll be able to face more and more difficult tasks.

VRay: THE COMPLETE GUIDE was born thanks to two year’s hard work, during which we tried to produce a high-quality handbook committed to VRay’s users. Not just a basic list of commands, but a special tool, composed by technical and theorical parts, by which you’ll be carried away! You’ll be able to find, through 1000 pages, 2300 images and 3200 renderings expressly created for this handbook. Enclosed you’ll also find a DVD-ROM containing 32 animations in .mov format, bearing examples otherwise impossible to understand via images only. It’s an unrepeatable handbook, difficult to find elsewhere: made up of 1000 pages, full colour, 20x28x5cm (other manuals are usually smaller: 17x23x3cm). Bound with extreme care, through paperback binding stitched with wire referendum and not simply glue, it holds up through the time. The hardback cover also is hardbound disk, allowing a better usability.

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Explore, validate, and communicate your ideas with Autodesk? 3ds Max? Design 2010 software?a comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution that supports the way architects, designers, engineers, and design visualization specialists approach their projects?from initial concept models to final, cinema-quality presentations. Digital continuity with the AutoCAD?, Revit?, and Autodesk? Inventor? software product families makes 3ds Max Design a key solution for seamless digital visualization workflow. Continue Reading

Side Effects Software has released Houdini 10, the first commercially-available application able to slice up and distribute fluid simulations over a network of computers. 3D artists will benefit from faster simulation times in addition to the ability to create simulations at a much bigger size and scale than would be possible with a single computer. Continue Reading

GeoControl2

The revolutionary concept of GeoControl2 opens up totally new dimensions of creating virtual landscapes.

The unique combination of more artistic tools and semi-scientific algorithms makes it possible to create realistic, breathtaking landsapes, based on conceptual layouts or on fantasie.

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STASH DVD 01

This is the first issue of Stash DVD. Enjoy it!!!

Nobody reads the editorial, I said. It?s a magazine, they said, you gotta have an editorial. But it?s not like a magazine magazine with all the silly reading and stuff. Good point, they said, still need the editorial. There?s nothing to write, I said, you watch the disk, you look at the pictures, you eat your sandwich– Oh, they said, and you need a head shot. No pictures. Just a small one. No pictures. Okay, okay, they said, but people are expecting the editorial. To do what? I said, blabber about the friction of art and commerce or the democratization of digital storage space in the context of a violent and complex world? Sounds great, they said, can you do it in two hundred words?

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