Luma Pictures showcases work on key sequences of featuring The Mighty Destroyer. Luma cooperate with Marvel’s creative VFX team to creating The Destroyer. For the movie using they create a pipeline of Maya, and ZBrush for character modelling and The studio also used its own in-house rigging toolset.
Phonenix FD is now available for 3DsMax 2012 in the download section for ChaosGroup. Phoenix FD (fluid dynamics) it’s a grid based simulator for fire and smoke. It combines a grid based simulator with outstanding rendering capabilities. In addition to the usual uniform fluid behavior, Phoenix FD is capable of simulating a whole array of additional processes like pressure decay, thermal radiation cooling and mass-temperature dependence.
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Recently ShapeMagic 2.1 became a freeware and you download it from the developer page. ShapeMagic was a commercial program which was sold on 3D Commune store until 2009 when the site was closed. The developer decided to reopen his work and now he transformed the commercial product to a freeware which you can download from his web page. He also made available few more tools which he wrote lately in 2001-2003. If you want, check it out.
Juan Pablo Bouza has released BlenRig 4.0 – Auto Rigging & Skinning for Blender 2.57b. BlenRig is an automatic rigging system that uses an armature and a mesh deform cage to produce a ready to use rig with nice deformations and a wealth of animator friendly controls.
Autodesk released promised „BonusTools 2012“ for Maya 2012. The main change with the version before it’s that the menu is completely revamped to be more in line with Maya menus. Ten brand new tools have been added and at least a dozen others have been updated and this also includes many bug fixes. You can download the tool from Autodesk web page at: http://area.autodesk.com/bonus_tools .
