Scalisoft released new and the first fully-featured 3d modelling software specially designed for tablets and larger smartphones. Spacedraw extensive the use of multi-touch for viewing and modelling, the screen is divided in multiple touch-areas, where touching has different effects. They can be used in turn, or simultaneously, allowing changing the view while modelling. The program itself covers all aspects of 3d modelling which you can know from other 3d applications such as the modelling itself, lightning and textures. You can use freehand lines, splines or create a primitive object like rectangles, grids and boxes. Moreover, next to the textures which you can map on the surface, Spacedraw include also a 3d-painting feature with wide range of sophisticated tools for directly painting on surfaces in the viewport.
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The Blender Foundation has finally released Blender 2.64. This release was targeted at improving Blender for the Mango open movie project, along with integrating branches and patches from the past years.
The focus was on creating a full VFX pipeline, with improved motion tracking using a planar tracker, easier green screen keying, and a new mask editor. A new tile based compositing system was added, along with more advanced color management. Cycles rendering got dozens of smaller features and improvements resulting from its use in production.
Product Update 11 is available for both Autodesk® 3ds Max®& 3ds Max® Design 2012 with considerable number of fixes. Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modelling, animation, and rendering tools that enable artists and designers to focus more energy on creative, rather than technical challenges. This update fixes bugs and performance issue in animation, nitrous driver and more. Performance was improved using Nitrous diver while dragging the time slider in isolate mode. Moreover, this package is fixing several CERs (Customer Error Reports) which includes; Nitrous rendering, UVW Unwrap, Referencing system and more.
Allegorithmic has released version 3.1 of Substance Designer, the specialist in game texturing, extending the bitmap painting editor introduced in the version 3.0. The software provides a non-destructive, node-based system, complete with a 3D preview, for authoring lightweight procedural textures, or ‘substances’ which are supported in 3ds Max, Maya and Unity. The new version of Substance Designer includes new features and tools such as a major batching system, letting you batch process numerous meshes and textures at the same time, a paint system for retakes freeing most of the artists' needs when it comes to basic image editing, new powerful filters to speed texture creation, and many others. However the most interesting feature implemented inside the new version is the new bitmap painting editor which helps you create textures faster than ever before.
Maxon has released Cinema 4D R14 Student, the free educational version of its popular 3D package. The functionality in the free student edition of CINEMA 4D differs only slightly from the package used by professionals worldwide in their high-end productions. Students receive a special version of CINEMA 4D R14 Studio, including all features such as the physical render engine, Hair, MoGraph, Sketch and Toon, a powerful character animation toolset and libraries bursting with objects and materials.