Posts Tagged ‘Rendering’

Industry News (2010#23)

06/13/10 by Martin | News | No Comments »

Roadshows

• Register for Chaos Group V-Ray Public Event in London on July 1st
• Shotgun Software is having a road show (Shotgun is a collaboration tool for digital productions)

Training

• New Training for modo 401 by Dan Ablan at 3D Garage: Dynamic Parenting (pre-order for $20 off)
• Free SolidWorks to modo workflow video training
• Creating realistic fire in Blender 2.5

Software

3D Widgets for After Effects to help navigate 3D comps

Multilayer Shaders in Mari

Trailers

• The Trailer for Rango has been released, ILM’s first feature animation effort

Siggraph 2010 Emerging Technologies Trailer:

Industry News (2010#22) (updated)

06/06/10 by Martin | News | No Comments »

Software News

• E-on Software announced the beta testing program of Carbon Scatter for 3dsmax. Carbon Scatter is bringing E-On software’s EcoSystem to host applications using their native instancing features.
• E-on Software Vue 8.5 PLE (personal learning edition) is available.
• Side Effects Software offers a sneak peak on Houdini 11.
• Glare Technologies Limited announced Indigo Renderer with GPU support – they are asking for beta testers and offer 25% until June 7th.
• Nextlimit announced Maxwell Render plugin for Nuke (link to PDF).

Training

• William Vaughan posted a PDF of his HDRI 3D Magazine article “Go with the flow” on edge flows in organic meshes

Industry News for week 2010#20

05/22/10 by Martin | News, Tools | No Comments »

Realflow 5

NextLimit released RealFlow 5 to their current customers. A public release will follow soon.

New features include:

• Hybrido – a hybrid solver that allows to simulate large bodies of water with sophisticated secondary effects like splashes, foam and mist
• Caronte – a body dynamics solver with rigid body, soft body and link simulation. Soft bodies include permanent deformations as well.
• Improved performance with the particle based solver (should be up to 20 times faster for standard fluids)
• Job Manager to spread simulations across several computers
• the standard license comes with a free copy of RealFlow Renderkit v2 for Mental Ray or Renderman (on Windows/Linux)
• Realflow 5 is no longer licences per CPU
• a full feature list can be found here.

Boxx Technologies Personal Render Option

Boxx Technologies announced their renderPRO personal render option. It is a quiet PC with a small form factor that brings dedicated rendering to your desk. It is available in three different configurations with 4, 8 or 12 Xeon cores and up to 192 GB of RAM. Operating System options are Windows and Linux. Of course you need software that has the option of network rendering to use the renderPRO. It is a great solution to free up computing power at your workstation.