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Today the leader in facial animations Di-O-Matic announced the immediately availability of their Rapid Facial Modeling solution: Facial Studio v3.1 for Windows platforms. Facial Studio allows you to create 3D realistic, caricatured or cartoon head using more than 500 controls covering the entire 3D head creation process. With all features inside Facial Studio you can perform face deformation and deform almost anything on your character for your desired final result and export to your favourite 3D application including 3ds max, Cinema4D, LightWave, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage XSI and many others using the FBX file format.
Software developer WTools3D has released the latest version of its modelling plug-in for LightWave. New release includes some impressive new features e.g. Shingles - new automatic tool for placing customized shingle set on custom roofs, AreaVolume - new command for quick area and volume calculation and complete set of shingle types, regular, slope, barge, top and connectors. This update also brings many enhancements. It contains improved system of adding intervals, Radial Clone - new source pivot option in numeric panel and Vector Clone - new side option, LIB objects can be aligned to left,right or center. In this version you can also find completely updated algorithm, faster and cleaner results.
Late in 2011, The DAVE School's Executive Director, Steve Warner, gave his signature Lighting and Rendering lecture to the students at the school. Now DAVE School offers whole two 5 hour lecture to see for all visitors and 3D modelling fans. They started to post the entire series in hour-long instalments. Today they are posting the first segment which examines the material properties found in most 3D programs and explains how to translate the characteristics you see in the real world into recognizable surfaces in the 3D world. Mr Warner covers the basics of 3D material properties and how to translate what you see in the real world in to parameters you can use in your 3D software.
In this interview we were asking questions cebas CEO Edwin Braun, the leader in VFX solutions for CG industry. cebas offers a wide range of products for production solutions for VFX studios, and visualization design companies, as well as 3D laser scanning services. Moreover their software solutions are unique and frequently developed in conjunction with major motion pictures aiming to dazzle their audiences with the latest in special effects. So if you were wondering what was behind the VFX in movies like "Harry Potter" series, "Alice and Wonderland" and “Sucker Punch”, you can be sure that a part was cebas technology. We would like to thank MR. Braun for answering our questions and on the bottom of this article you can see a gallery of artworks made with cebas technology.