Sometimes photoreal is too real. Artists need options, clients want choices, and ideas rarely fit under one umbrella. And that`s can be found in Luxology’s® NPR Kit for modo — a non-photorealistic rendering package that allows expressive, hand-drawn looks and animations to be achieved in 3D renderings. With this new all-in-one kit, modo 601® users will now be able to access classic art styles when rendering anything from product visualizations to anime and fine art.
RandomControl has released Arion 2.0: a major update to its hybrid CPU/GPU physically based renderer. Arion is a high performance production renderer capable of producing hyper-real images and animations. There are a lot of new features in Arion 2.0, when you follow link below you can find out more about all new features.
Di-O-Matic announces that Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) the automatic lip sync solution for Maya new version 2.0 has been released. Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) is a powerful, easy-to-use plug-in which automates the lip synchronization process for your animated CG characters directly in Autodesk Maya. It works with any type of character setup and with virtually any language. Voice-O-Matic has already earned its stripes with its use in leading feature films, popular television shows, commercials and award winning video games. Some of the most admired CG franchises including Batman, Spider-man and Superman sport what Voice-O-Matic can achieve.
Luxion releases the third update for KeyShot® 3.3., the first real time ray tracing and global illumination program. The new update continues to add new features and software enhancements to speed the 3D rendering and animation process. KeyShot 3.3 users have now more control over the colour options, support of new 3D format and a new ability to create interactive 3D content directly from KeyShot interface. The new colour option is represented by a Colour Selection dialog allowing KeyShot users to pick colours from anywhere on their screen with the added ability to save selected colours to a new palette. The ability to create interactive 3D content is produced by a new patent-pending technology, KeyShotVRTM. This new technology allows creating interactive representation of products that can be viewed on any HTML5-enabled web-browser, including mobile devices.
LWCAD is a top set of add-on modeling plugins for LightWave 3D. Core of this package contains a complete set of standard CAD tools with the most advanced osnap engine. It equips your favorite modeling program with the countless features normally available only in expensive CAD applications. Latest versions contains some revolutionary features as a real-time curve booleans or real-time polygons drilling which are absolutely unique in the industry. Also new set of archiviz tools which is specially designed for creating architecture. It allows user to create a complex building in a few minutes. Those new features will push you into another modeling dimension.
