E-on Software Announces Availability of LumenRT 4.1 Studio

E-on Software released a new version of LumenRT 4.1 Studio adding extended capabilities for large MicroStation models and Revit export. The new version adds several important improvements including; New animated water materials – ocean, sea, lake, pond; Export of point lights from Revit and more. Read more ...

Southpaw Technology releases Tactic 4.0

Southpaw Technology has updated Tactic, its recently open-sourced asset and project-management system. Version 4.0 of the software focuses on ease of pipeline integration, improving database connectivity, adding a new plugin architecture, and adding HTML5 theming to enable studios to skin Tactic to match in-house tools. Find out more..

CG Artist Reference: Drawing From Reference Improves Skill and Productivity

Drawing from reference of some type is highly encouraged when in art school, and really by all established artists.  Reference can be photographic or live, and when used properly it becomes a tool that enhances productivity and the skill of an artist. Find out more..

MODO 701 Service pack is out

Not long after releasing MODO 701 comes first service pack. It fixes many bugs, so really necessary to download it. Find out more..

FurryBall3 – price for EDU version is reduced

Edu licence has no limits, EDU user just agrees with non-commercial use ONLY. Iit is valid one YEAR and include ALL free updares, upgrades and LOWER PRIORITY support. One student can purchase only ONE licence. Multilicence is available only for School institutions. Price is 99€. Find out more..

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Modelling an egg chair using 3ds Max

Modelling an egg chair using 3ds Max

Browsing the net I found out that many users are interested in modelling so called egg chairs which are representing the modern art and are a nice piece of furniture. Because we need quite a lot of materials and models inside our interior whi...

Modelling a home theatre system in 3ds M…

Modelling a home theatre system in 3ds Max

In this tutorial we will continue modelling objects for our interior and model a home theatre system using reference pictures. These objects will be used later by creating and building our interior at the end of this section. The system ...

Creating the floating-castle using Photo…

Creating the floating-castle using Photoshop

In the tutorials before I already showed that the options of Photoshop are almost unlimited and that these options are only bounded by your imagination. To proceed with this I decided to create a tutorial where we will create a floating castl...

Modelling MockingJay pin and GDI logo us…

Modelling MockingJay pin and GDI logo using 3ds Max

Some time ago we received a direct mail with a question about modelling a Mocking Jay pin and GDI logo using 3ds Max and because we try to fulfil the needs of our users we decided to create an tutorial about modelling both items. Lo...

Creating a romantic card using Photoshop

Creating a romantic card using Photoshop

Slowly but for sure the 14th November is coming and with this day also the St. Valentine’s Day. To this occasion I decided to create a romantic card using Photoshop. The initial idea was taken from s stock photo I sa...

Modelling a living room wall using 3ds M…

Modelling a living room wall using 3ds Max

In this tutorial we will model a living room wall and get again a bit closer to the final scene which would be an interior render merging all our model did before. This part of furniture is very popular and you can basically find it...

Using MAXScript to animate an advertisem…

Using MAXScript to animate an advertisement inside 3ds Max

In this tutorial we will for the first time get into the animation process inside 3ds Max and create a changing advertisement using the tools available inside 3ds Max. The tutorial will start with creating the appropriated shapes for the...

Autodesk 3ds max tips & tricks

Autodesk 3ds max tips & tricks

If you are a new user of 3ds max or an experienced one you know that if you want to improve your workflow you need to see inside the application a bit more. Every application can be used in a so called general way whe...

Merging two animals together using Photo…

Merging two animals together using Photoshop

Everyone who used Photoshop for some time knows that the features and the possibilities which are included inside Photoshop are limited just by your imagination. Literally you can do almost everything and these include also some advanced phot...

Modelling a two stage Missile using 3ds …

Modelling a two stage Missile using 3ds max-Part 3

In this end part of the „two stage Missile“ tutorial we will prepare our model for texturing and also create the textures using Photoshop. In the parts before „part1“ and „part2“ we were focusing on the mod...

Useful scripts and plugins for 3ds Max

Useful scripts and plugins for 3ds Max

3ds Max alone is powerful enough to fulfil most users’ demands on this software but there is still a lot space for improvements and add-ons which can improve not only the functionality of 3ds Max but also speed up your workflow. We could div...

Modelling a two stage Missile using 3ds …

Modelling a two stage Missile using 3ds max-Part 2

The second part of the „two stage Missile“ tutorial would be again only about modelling and finishing the whole model using 3ds max. While in the first part we focused on the main missile, in this part we mainly do the second stag...

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Upgrade to ZBrush4R5 for free

Upgrade to ZBrush4R5 for free

Pixologic updated ZBrush4 to version R5 simplifying the process of modifying and controlling basic topology. ZBrush is a digital painting and sculpting tool widely used in the 3D industry fully loaded with powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within ...

Blender 2.67 is released

Blender 2.67 is released

The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.67. New in this release is the Freestyle render engine for non-photorealistic rendering, which can generate 2D line drawings in various styles. The paint and sculpt system is now much more consistent across different ...

Chaos Group started V-Ray 1.6 for Sketch…

Chaos Group started V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp Beta Program

Chaos Group is a leading provider of innovative rendering solutions for the media, entertainment, and design industries. With the announcement of V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp open beta, users now have the biggest expansion to SketchUp’s rendering capabilities. This m...

Adobe kills Creative Suite, moves to Cre…

Adobe kills Creative Suite, moves to Creative Cloud

Adobe’s creative software will soon only be available via an online subscription. The company has announced that it is canning perpetual licences of its Creative Suite products in favour of Creative Cloud membership. Photoshop CS6, After Effects CS6 and the...

cebas released finalRender 3.5 Service P…

cebas released finalRender 3.5 Service Pack 13

cebas Visual Technology Inc. continues its plugins upgrades and announces the release of service pack 13 and 3ds Max 2014 compatibility for finalRender 3.5 as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon 3.5. This Service Pack provides fixes minor issues f...

Imagination Technologies has released Ca…

Imagination Technologies has released Caustic Visualizer for 3ds Max in open beta

Caustic Visualizer for Autodesk 3ds Max enables 3D artists to accelerate their workflows by greatly reducing time spent on “iterative” scene refinement. Unlike other accelerated viewports, Visualizer's beautifully raytraced ActiveShade environment all...

E-on Software Ships Vue 11.5

E-on Software Ships Vue 11.5

E-on software, the leading developer of solutions for the creation, animation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments, announced the immediately availability of Vue 11.5 xStream and Infinity. Vue xStream and Infinity are used for creating and rendering ...

PhysX SDK 3.2.4 release is available

PhysX SDK 3.2.4 release is available

nVidia released a  new bug-fixing release of the PhysX SDK 3.x. PhysX SDK 3.x represents a significant rewrite of the PhysX engine. This rewrite involved extensive changes to the API that effectively results in a new PhysX engine rather than a chart of changes b...

Planetside updates Terragen to version …

Planetside updates Terragen to version  2.5.5.0

Terragen™ 2 is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. With the help of Terragen you can create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen 2 to create the most realistic vi...

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3DCreative Issue 93 is out

3DCreative Issue 93 is out

Last issue of 3D Creative is again full loaded of interesting tutorials. Amazing cover picture is created by Tudor Fat. In his in-depth and comprehensive tutorial he shows us how to create a wheeled alien figure. And this is also a start of brand new series on c...

3D World #169 is out

3D World #169 is out

New issue of 3D World magazine is coming out. In this issue you can find Future CGI trends and technologies, Framestore ad tips, Disney Paperman techniques, making muscles in Maya and much, much more. There are really hot topics. So when you want to know what it&...

3D Artist Issue 54 is out

3D Artist Issue 54 is out

Another issue of 3D Artist is out with a lot of interesting articles and free stuff. 3D Artis is an invaluable guide to the world of 3D, whether you are a budding artist or experienced professional. Each issue includes interesting articles also from the movie industr...

AMD Unleashes the World’s Fastest Graphi…

AMD Unleashes the World’s Fastest Graphics Card

AMD announced the release of the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990, the world’s fastest graphics card, designed for gamers who want to take their PC gaming experience to the highest level. AMD Radeon HD 7990 is based on award-winning AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) archit...

The sleep is over

The sleep is over

After a longer time of being a bit passive at 3D-Sphere we are restarting the work here. The main reason for this was the fact that i had my wedding before me. Everyone who experienced this social occasion will agree with me that it’s one of the ...

Maxwell Render's Spanish HDRI render com…

Maxwell Render's Spanish HDRI render competition

The Maxwell Render team is announced the Spanish HDRI render competition in conjunction with MAGROUND. As Maxwell Render is a product of the Spanish company, Next Limit Technologies, we would like to showcase the architectural/cultural diversity of Valencia through t...

NVIDIA Announces Global “World of Tanks”…

NVIDIA Announces Global “World of Tanks” Open Tournament

NVIDIA announced the first ever GeForce eSports World of Tanks Open Tournament, where combatants will compete to win NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 600-series graphics cards and a shot at a $100,000 total prize pool awarded at a spectacular grand finals event. Player r...

3D Artist issue 53 is out

3D Artist issue 53 is out

3D Artist is an invaluable guide to the world of 3D, whether you are a budding artist or experienced professional. Each issue goes behind the scenes on the latest movies, talks to the most talented 3D artists and features the hottest new technologies. But that's ...

Geomerics launches major Enlighten updat…

Geomerics launches major Enlighten update

Geomerics, the leading lighting technology company in the video game industry, today announced that it has launched a major upgrade to Enlighten, its award-winning game lighting middleware. The new version focuses heavily on simplifying the workflow of artists workin...