Substance Designer is the only software solution on the market dedicated directly to texturing, allowing the creation of high quality maps using multi-channel, non-linear and non-destructive workflow. Recently Allegorithmic released a new version of Substance Designer 2.5 moving the 3D pipeline a bit forward. The new version is featuring a lot of enhancements and bug fixes such as the handling of FX-Maps by a new substance engine and much more.
Third generation of iPad brings many enhancements and innovations. New iPad has faster chip, better camera and great new display and much more. New Retina display brings four times more pixels than iPad 2 with razor-sharp text and richer text. The Retina display transforms the entire iPad experience. The Retina display on the new iPad features a 2048-by-1536 resolution, 44 percent greater colour saturation, and an astounding 3.1 million pixels — in the same 9.7-inch space. That’s four times the number of pixels in iPad 2 and a million more than an HDTV. Those pixels are so close together, that your eyes can’t discern individual ones at a normal viewing distance.
Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow solution helping amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their images. Lightroom 4 introduces refined technology for superior shadow and highlight processing, ability to create photo books, additional local adjustment controls, and enhanced video support.
Lightroom 4 is a major release, adding significant new capabilities and innovations. New adjustment controls maximize dynamic range from cameras, recovering exceptional shadow details and highlights. The software features new and improved auto adjustments to dynamically set values for exposure and contrast, and additional local adjustment controls including Noise Reduction, Moire and White Balance.
The CGStudentAwards "formerly Computer Graphics Student Awards" is an annual event which showcases and rewards excellence in computer graphics from students and recent graduates. To date, the event has already helped kick-start the careers of 11 digital artists. Now is able to enter again. Qualified students at schools from all over the world are encouraged to submit their Demo Reel to our judging panel and compete for prizes and internships at the world's leading production studios.
The event is now open to all students and recent graduates from around the world. Event is split the event into three clear categories: Student of the Year, Studio Internships, and School of the Year. All entries are automatically entered into the Student of the Year category.
Side Effects Software is proud to announce the immediate release of Houdini 12 which offers a wealth of new features and performance enhancements making it easier for CG artists to accomplish more and iterate faster. Built on a powerful new geometry engine, Houdini 12 includes targeted optimizations to dynamics and rendering and a reworked OpenGL 3 viewport. Houdini 12 also includes Bullet solver integration, Pyro FX 2, faster, more accurate FLIP fluids, production-ready cloth, an Alembic exporter and much more. Houdini’s Mantra renderer now brings physically-based rendering to volumes such as smoke and fire.
