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Making of Private Charlie by 3DTotal

3DsMax ZBRUSHDaniele Orsetti published at 3DTotal his new making of called „Private Charlie“. Daniele explains in the making of that the initial concept of „Private Charlie“ was created to teach character modeling during a master degree of computer graphics at the BigRock training center in Italy. Because he liked the character he decided to develop the idea further. In the making of Daniele describes the transforming of the original design of the character into version 2 where the hardest part was to create a cartoony but realistic character. He spent many hours watching references and after having the idea he started to rework the original Charlie.

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SyFlex in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

SyFlexSyFlex is a cloth simulation plugin for 3DsMax, Maya 2010-2012, Houdini and Lightwave which after installation seamlessly integrate into your favorite 3D application. The use of SyFlex is very intuitive and according to the developers „On a quad core, Syflex is 15 times faster than any other cloth simulator on the market. “. The system is offering many features which makes from SyFlex leading cloth simulation plugin on the market. Now SyFlex published an interview with Digic Pictures,

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Cebas at SIGGRAPH 2011

Cebas finalrenderCebas announced participation at SIGGRAPH 2011 held in Vancouver from the 9th to the 11th of August. Cebas will join companies like Autodesk and Chaos Group who will be there too. This year Cebas will present its solution to the next generation rendering challenges industry professionals will be facing in the near future. Promoting its new credo: "You will always be Faster ™", cebas  new algorithms based on the GPUs which taking the leading in rendering technologies can now be found in their latest release of finalRender™ and thinkingParticles™.

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What will be on 3D World Issue 146 DVD?

Photoshop 3DsMaxThe latest issue of 3D World magazine Issue 146 goes on sale in United Kingdom tomorrow (26. July 2011). About the prepared content we already wrote in a article few days ago „3D World Issue 146“, but today 3D World published information about the DVD which you can get together with the ltest issue. The DVD according to 3D World is full of free content worth 1,076$ including 13 hours of free video tutorials. So what would be inside the DVD? A lot of software such as DAZ Studio 4 (PC and MAC), Lightwave 10.1 trial, Sculptris Alpha 6 from Pixologic and much more.

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3DsMax 2012 review by 3Dworldmag

3DsMax 20123Dworldmag published a very detailed review about the latest release of Autodesk 3DsMax 2012. In the review the author describes the main improvements and features which you can find Max such as; rewritten viewport graphics engine, Photometric rendering engine, Library of procedural real-world textures and others. One of the main features is the Nitrous Graphic System which allows you to preview of even the most complex scenes in near-realtime. In the review on 5 pages you can read about more changes in the new release and the continuing re-write of 3DsMax by Autodesk.