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Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced its merger with Luxology. The two companies are a great fit in terms of technology and markets. The combined portfolio will open doors to new ways of working, providing artists and designers with increased creative choice. The Foundry with its stable of award-winning 2D and 3D VFX software, including industry standard compositor NUKE, sees Luxology’s complementary technology as a natural addition. Luxology’s innovative 3D modelling and rendering technology and its flagship product, modo, are world class and favoured by thousands of artists and designers globally.
The Foundry and CGSociety start a competition where they looking for the world's best MARI artist. The Foundry has posted "Witch Doctor" by Jakob Kousholt. Your goal is texture the model and bring it to life.
OC3 Entertainment has released FaceFX 2013, the latest update to its automated facial animation system. The software, which batch-processes audio files to generate user-customisable lip sync and facial animation, has been used on over 150 AAA games, including Max Payne 3 and Mass Effect 3.
Latest issue of 3D Artist magazine is already released. This issue is focused on design and model a robot where you can cnderstand robotic designs and perfect your hard-surface modelling techniques in 3ds Max. In this issue you can also learn from Hollywood artist Jerad Marantz's impressive ZBrush workflow when concepting characters. If you want know more creating detailed destruction, you sure read an article where is described how to use 3ds Max to build bespoke assets and then demolish your scenes with MassFX for dramatic effects.
Di-O-Matic is releasing several new updates of its 3ds max plugins. These new updates improve the latest version of our tools by resolving numerous issues.