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Photo Based Sculpting In Mudbox, xNormal & nDo2

Submitted by Eat 3D on October 24, 2012 - 1:39pm

Watch it now here: http://eat3d.com/free/mudbox_displace

In this demonstration, Richard Piper shows how to get a quick & effective sculpt from a photo in Mudbox, xNormal and nDo2 with the final presentation being shown in Marmoset toolbag.

xNormal 3.17.14 Beta 1 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on July 31, 2012 - 9:07am

xNormal 3.17.14 Beta 1 has been released!

The new version contains a ton of bug fixes, improvements and optimizations

What's new in xNormal 3.17.14 Beta 1?

xNormal 3.17.13 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 23, 2012 - 8:12am

xNormal 3.17.13 has been released!

The new version contains a ton of bug fixes, improvements and optimizations

What's new in xNormal 3.17.13?

xNormal 3.17.10 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 20, 2012 - 10:32am

xNormal 3.17.10 has been released!

The new version contains a ton of bug fixes, improvements and optimisations

What's new in xNormal 3.17.10?

3d-Palace Release Hard Surface Unwrapping and Texturing – 3ds Max, ZBrush, Xnormal and Photoshop Masterclass!

Submitted by metalliandy on January 23, 2012 - 3:27pm

Our friends over at 3d-Palace have been really busy making a new Masterclass tutorial on Hard Surface Unwrapping and Texturing!

The 15hr tutorial includes a monstrous amount of training for 3ds Max, ZBrush, Xnormal and Photoshop, along with a huge amount of invaluable techniques for Hard Surface unwrapping and texturing!

xNormal 3.17.8 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on December 30, 2011 - 6:57am

xNormal 3.17.8 has been released!

The new version contains a few bug fixes

What's new in xNormal 3.17.8?

Fixed a problem scaling derivative maps.
Recompiled using the latest libraries.

Check out the full announcement and grab the installer, for free, HERE

xNormal 3.17.7 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on December 5, 2011 - 2:53pm

xNormal 3.17.7 has been released!

Hot on the heels of 3.17.6, The new version contains a few bug bug fixes

What's new in xNormal 3.17.7?

xNormal 3.17.6 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on November 25, 2011 - 1:50pm

xNormal 3.17.6 has been released!

The new version contains lots of new features, such as the ability to render a new map type: derivative height maps, a completely new FBX mesh importer, a new experimental renderer based on the Caustic Graphics / Imagination Technologies's OpenRL ray tracing API. and a host of bug fixes!

What's new in xNormal 3.17.6?

New Free Video! Creating Tileable Textures in ZBrush

Submitted by Eat 3D on August 4, 2011 - 8:59am

In this demonstration, Andy Davies goes over the creation of tileable textures within Zbrush 4.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Normal Maps * But Were Afraid To Ask

Submitted by metalliandy on July 28, 2011 - 10:03am

Autodesk have published a great article on normal maps, along with a very detailed white paper explaining the intricacies of baking and normal maps in general