While the EPIC-X may be delayed there is still lots of work going on in the stereo-rig world. Vizworld has posted a picture of a lightweight S3D-rig with two EPICs. This is quite a departure from the usually bulky and heavy rigs used so far with larger cameras (for example Element Technica’s Quasar).
Stefan Laub/LaubLab KG (known for the V-Ray / Cinema 4D integration) announced the availability of rhino.io – a Cinema 4D import/export plugin for Rhino 3dm files. It has an introductory price of EUR 79 with the regular rice at EUR 99 and is available on both Windows and as beta on OS X.
Nitro 4D has a new plugin “History“. It is some kind of macro recorder that allows you to record modeling steps and play it back repeatedly. Another new plugin is Easy View.
Some renaming helpers from Adam Swaab (direct links):
Later, Jim Jannard commented on Canon’s way of downsampling (or rather not) their full resolution to HD by line skipping. This comment cought plenty of fire around the web. It is funny how others have critisized line skipping and its related aliasing problems but when someone who really knows what it means to do it otherwise (not to say: better) flaming ensues.
Guys, cut RED some slack. They turned over the world of digital film cameras, working pretty much out in the open. Something like HD video features on a DSLR was not even thinkable before RED disrupted the market. They put out an incredible camera with the RED One in virtually no time at an incredible price. Yes, they are notoriously behind schedule but that is to be expected. I don’t see how Canon, Panasonic and Sony are anywhere near on schedule with their 4K+ cameras, recording RAW at a sub-50K price.
RED has been very open and super-supportive in the past years. Maybe its time to cut them some slack and be equally supportive!
ILM re-launched their website – with 35 years of movie magic. I love their window that shows the before screens when you hover over the images.
Atomkraft integrates Renderman rendering into Nuke. It comes with a “Nuke-only” license of 3Delight.
Chaosgroup runs a OSX/Linux beta for Pdplayer. Pdplayer is an image sequence player with color correction, pre-compositing, HDRI and stereoscopic support. More info at pdplayer.com
