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3D Artist issue 50 is out

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Latest issue of 3D Artist magazine is already released. This issue is focused on Design and create exosuits. In latest issue you can find out some helpful tips from Carlos Ortega on the initial steps of his stunning image ‘The Weeping Woman’.

In latest issue you can enhance your character creation workflow with our 6-page guide to creating realistic skin and scales in Zbrush. You can also find how Pascal Blanche reveals the hidden secrets of his decade-old Mermaid character in our retrospective 'I made this' article or the secrets of Gnomon Studio`s 'UFO Over Santa Clarita' CG film – it looks good enough to make us 'believe'.

Kim Dotcom launches Mega, successor to Megaupload

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Exactly one year after shutting down Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom with his team officially launched new and improved version of the defunct Megaupload file-hosting service. And if you are asking yourself, if it is still popular, here is the answer. According to Dotcom`s twitter they have 100 000 users less than 1 hour.

Mega offers 50 GB storage limit on a free account and that is much more than offer the other providers. E.g. Dropbox gives you 2 GB storage limit for free, Ubuntu One a Google Drive 5 GB and SkyDrive from Microsoft offers 25 GB.

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 3.2

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Allegorithmic has updated their texturing tool, Substance Designer.

Version 3.2 introduces an advanced Library View, allowing to instantly find the filters, effects and content you need in a split second, and to organize your custom searches and favorites. With this new feature only, Substance Designer is not only the most useful texturing tool out there, but also maybe the easiest to use.

Substance Bonus Tools for Maya 2 now available

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Allegorithmic has upgraded the Substance offerings in Autodesk's animation software, called the Bonus Tools for Maya, for free. This is to assist those using the procedural texture format that works natively within Autodesk Maya.

After installing Substance Bonus Tools, a new shelf called Substance, will be added to the shelves menu bar. It allows you to easily access a set of useful tools that will help you get the most out of Substance textures in Maya 2013.

This new update is still free and brings numerous new tools to ease your life working with Maya and Substance: new example scenes, scripts and compatibility with all renderers (not only mental ray, but RenderMan, Arnold, etc.)

cebas released finalRender 3.5 Service Pack 12

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cebas Visual Technology Inc. announces the immediate release of its 12th and latest Service Pack for finalRender 3.5 SE as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon 3.5.

This Service Pack provides smart fixes to issues that were reported earlier by cebas customers, improving finalRender’s stability and workflow even more in 3ds Max 2013. It also includes new options that are added to enhance users’ experience and feature variability.

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