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Bones Pro is back with a Vengeance!

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Bones Pro is back and better than ever!

The skinning application for Max has recently been revived and looks great with many new and improved features added.

 

Vue 8 xStream and Infinite Now Shipping

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 Vue 8 xStream and Infinite have now been released.

The industry standard natural environment creation software can now be purchased from e-on for $895-$1495.

 

Meshlab 1.22 Released

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The new version of MeshLab (1.2.2) of the GNU program, famous for its awesome decimation feature, has now been released and includes numerous bug-fixes and new features.

You can now officially get excited Laughing out loud

UNITY Engine 2.6 Indie Now Free!

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Unity Engine 2.6 Indie is now free to use for personal or commercial projects!

The Indie version of the superb engine, now simply called Unity, is a slightly feature reduced  little brother or the Pro edition, but still shares much tech. goodness with its sibling.

 

ZBrush - Rubble Tiling Texture Tutorial

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Nick Marks has created a very interesting tutorial on creating a tiling rubble texture in ZBrush.

Very cool stuff indeed  and highly recommended viewing Smiling

 

You can watch the tutorial on Nick's Vimeo page

New Allan Mckay Tutorial Trailer

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VFX Guru Allan Mckay has released a trailer for the first part of his forthcoming Creature FX series.

The Blender Foundation's Durian Project's Secrets Revealed

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The Blender Foundation has released the first official teaser for the the forthcoming Durian project along with an animatic of the first full minute of the film.

 

Game Art Portfolio Presentation Tutorial

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cg.tutsplus.com have posted the first part of a two part tutorial by Kaleb Aylsworth about presenting your game art in an attractive and functional manner.

Very cool stuff and highly recommended viewing Laughing out loud

 

Free Video Tutorial - The tree - Creating surface textures tip.

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 Sample workflow creating surface details combining color texture work and sculpted displacements. A process for creating "cavity" like texture is also shown here.This workflow could be used if you were creating color and displacement maps for rendering your mesh in Mental ray as a subdivision surface.

Free Video Tutorial - Switching Cameras in an Animation in 3ds Max

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 Here is new set of videos covering different techniques to switch cameras in an animation in 3ds max. Either it's for a pre-viz project or a visualization walkthrough from multiple points of view, you'll see how to create a camera switch to cut from one camera to another in a single animation.

New Book: Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 Foundation for Games

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Learning 3ds Max 2010 Foundation for Games is the key to unlocking the power of Autodesk 3ds Max, directly from the creators of one of the world's most powerful 3D animation and effects software products. Get hands on experience with the innovative tools and powerful techniques available in the new version of 3ds Max, through all new project-based lessons. Projects will include valuable game assets and examples. Topics will include modeling, animation, materials & mapping, rendering.

 

2 New Free Video tutorials at JoeGunn3D

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Tearing Cloth Max 2010 and "Beachball Softbodies"

Check them out here: http://www.joegunn3d.com/Tutorials.html

Pretty cool stuff, The more I learn about Max 2010 the more impressed I get!!

VRayScatter 2.5.6 released

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VRayScatter lets VRay to generate huge amount of objects in array. Never before within 3ds max has a been able to  create scenes with millions objects. With VRayScatter  the user is able to create huge forest areas or even a city with uncountable amount of buildings in two clicks. Quick rendertime generation of objects with optimized RAM management makes process of scene creation as easy as ABC.

Xoliul viewport shader tutorial

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Laurens Corijn has made a great tutorial about using Xoliul's viewport shader in 3dsMax which is availiable over at http://cg.tutsplus.com/ and goes through how to set up cool things like shadows and SSAO in the shader, which was created to emulate the "Game Engine" look from within Max.

 

Luxology release modo 401 trial

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Luxology Have released two trial versions of their flagship 3d application modo 401.

The available versions of the trial differ length of the trial and in the extra content in which they provide with the downloads.

 

Zookeeper for 3ds max update

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Here is a new Beta video showing Zookeepers tree and layer management tools as well as multi edit abilities.

Luxology releases a Modo spotlight tutorial set

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Luxology have released a  Bee-autiful (sorry :P) Modo spotlight overview video that takes the viewer through the workings of Modo with special attention being paid to the new 401 feature set.

The three part series by Andy Brown focuses on the creation of a bee and contains information such as modelling, rigging, animation, texturing and rendering.

Double Negative Open-Source Software

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Double Negative have just put out their first project to the opensource community

Towel Tutorial – Using 3ds Max Cloth Simulation

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Pretty cool cloth tutorial using 3ds Max  2009, also comes with the  scene files.

Check it out here:

http://surrealstructures.com/blog/?p=65

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