Digital-Tutors present sneak peek at the new batch of Creative Development courses being finalized in the new training pipeline. It is a preview of an upcoming tutorial for Autodesk 3dsmax called Advanced Car Rigging in 3ds Max with Steve Jones. This 3ds Max tutorial takes an in-depth look into how to create an animation rig with automatic controls for cars and vehicles – covering both the creation and implementation of a car rig using 3ds Max.
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GenArt releases the newest version of Sapphire to include support for Apple Final Cut Pro 7, The Foundry Nuke, Sony Vegas, and other open effects (OFX) systems. With this release, Sapphire v6 is available on all major editing systems to give editors, motion graphic artists, and compositors the flexibility to create high-quality visual effects for their projects in less time. The GenArts SolutionTM now powers Sapphire across all platforms to deliver the optimum combination of high-quality effects, contemporary VFX looks, and professional expertise in a single solution.
4 new blender features were added to trunk. Most of Blender users have probably heard rumors of these features for a while, but now they are finally available to play with. These features are significant andopen the new ways in using Blender in the future.
Cycles- New improved rendering engine, more realistic renders
Cycles is a completely new way of rendering in Blender that produces far superior results to the outdated internal renderer. Bounce lighting, caustics and glass are now available as standard without any messing around. Cycles will eventually replace the internal rendering engine, becoming the standard that every Blender user will soon use.
Digital-Tutors revealed a preview of an upcoming training called „Creating Game Characters with ZBrush and TopoGun Tutorial“. It is their first tutorial covering TopoGun – a powerful topology tool used in the character creation workflow. It teaches you how to use ZBrush and TopoGun to convert a high resolution character into a lower resolution game-type model. Sculpting applications are great for creating highly-detailed models, but to be able to rig, animate or integrate these models into a game engine, artists first have to convert the model to a much lower resolution. TopoGun is a great tool for taking detailed meshes and allowing us to very intuitively redraw this new topology.
