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Interview with Sam Lapere product manager for Octane Render at OTOY

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Interview with Sam Lepere product manager for Octane Render at OTOYAfter reviewing Octane Render we decided to make an interview with OTOY to get known the company which stays behind the development of the renderer and as well ask some questions about the renderer itself. OTOY took over the development of Octane Render from a New Zealand company called Refractive Software and continued the development on it, bringing new features and enhancement to the renderer. Moreover, Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. And from my opinion is worth to try. We were asking questions Sam Lapere, product manager for Octane Render at OTOY New Zealand and we would like to thank him one more time for taking the time for answering our questions.

Raylight unveils XrayCat Survival Toolkit for 3ds Max

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modelingXrayUnwrap and XrayBlendSkin creator Raylight has announced XrayCat Survival Toolkit. This new plugin designed to speed up workflow in 3ds Max’s CAT character animation system.

The tool adds shortcuts for the most common tasks when setting up a rig, plus new Layer and Clip Managers – the latter useful for backing up CAT layers and applying them to a new rig.

There is also a new Pose Manager, which enables users to “copy and paste poses [in Animation Mode], mirror the rig, swap arms, hands, legs and feet with only one mouse click.”

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX

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modelingIsotropix has released Clarisse iFX, its much-anticipated next-generation hybrid 2D/3D application.

Somewhere between 3D renderer, 2D compositor and animation package, Clarisse iFX is designed to enable artists to develop complex, detail-heavy production scenes while interacting continually with the final image.

Now everyone has the opportunity to learn and explore, for free, all aspects of Clarisse iFX for non-commercial purposes. Clarisse iFX PLE gives you access to all features available in Clarisse iFX commercial version. However, a subtle watermark is displayed on images and Clarisse iFX PLE saves its projects in dedicated non-commercial file formats.

 

Maxon releases ArtSmart plugin for Cinema 4D

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modelingMaxon has released ArtSmart, a new plugin for handling artwork from Illustrator or PDF files within Cinema 4D, via its Cineversity training website. ArtSmart is sure to revolutionize motion design workflow, with flexible options to add animation and depth to Illustrator artwork. The plugin also includes the ability to easily update and make changes to designs without losing work done in CINEMA 4D.

CGArena Magazine vol. 7 issue 5 is out

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modelingCGArena published the first issue of their CG magazine in this year covering December – January 2013. As usually the magazine is full of interesting articles covering the CG industry, interesting Making Of in 3ds Max and Maya, tutorials and advices to the users. On 70 pages you will find interview with Tomasz Strzalkowski, an Art Director at Flying Wild Hog where is talking about his workflow, which software’s he usually used such as about CG market in Poland. The magazine is free of charge and you can download it from the link below after you register to CG Arena.

 

 

 

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