pyrocluster offers state of the art volume acceleration rendering technologies, and it is by far one of the fastest and most flexible 3D smoke/cloud generators for 3ds max 6 through 2008. To guarantee a flawless integration into 3ds max, many new workflow and design concepts have been introduced. pyrocluster is now much more user friendly and offers even better control over volumetric effects like any other tool for 3ds max. Continue Reading
finalDOF? is cebas’ next generation effects tool for 3ds max. finalDOF is an all purpose Depth Of Field (DOF) & Motion Blur render effect for 3ds max.
finalDOF is the first plug-in ever to break the borders of the newly introduced layered G-Buffer channels of 3ds max versions 6 through 2008! With its full support of unlimited G-Buffer channels, finalDOF outperforms any standard 3ds max Render Effect. High quality Anti Aliasing Reconstruction after applying a render effect is only possible with the use of all sub pixel information available from the renderer. Continue Reading
Many of the woods are stressed and aged at different levels.
Scratches and cracks, bleached or flaked colors, dirty or mossy edges makes your work varied, unique and credible.
We have deliberately made not all textures tileable both in horizontal and vertical direction, because of the risk of geting lost the interesting structures. Continue Reading
Quark XPress 7.0 Portable
QuarkXPress? is powerful design and page layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine superior typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output for print and Web delivery. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies and design firms, marketers, printers, corporate publishers, catalog houses, and book publishers.
QuarkXPress Passport? offers all the features and capabilities of QuarkXPress plus the ability to display menus, check spelling, and properly hyphenate text in 11 languages – making your international publishing easier and more efficient.
The collection consists of:
* Tree Textures – with Matching Alpha Textures.
* 4 Bushes, 9 Conifers, 14 Palms, 30 Summer Deciduous, 8 Winter Deciduous and 3 Misc. Others.
* Texture Resolution is around 2000 pixels.
* All Tree Textures are saved in High Quality .JPG format
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Shade 8.5 from e frontier is a 3D modeling tool that lets you generate photorealistic renderings and 3D animations. This new release supports 64-bit Windows and Intel-based Macs and includes a variety of new features and improvements. Shade 8.5 is touted as running up to twice as fast on Intel-based Macs, and the Windows 64-bit supports more than 2GB of memory rendering.
Shade 8.5 is a 3D modeling tool that now supports 64-bit Windows and Intel-based Macintosh systems. Continue Reading
Visual Effects for Film and Television – 3.5 MB
Focal Press – 2004 – ISBN 0 240 51675 3 – 247 pages – PDF
Written by an experienced professional, this manual is the essential guide to understanding the principles and background of modern visual effects.
* An invaluable insight into the use of visual effects in film and television
* Fully illustrated with diagrams to show you step-by-step techniques
* Covers visual effects processes from front-of-camera to post-production
* Integrated approach to film, video and digital techniques Continue Reading
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