Software

We continue are series with interviews with people from CG world with Bob Bennett from Luxology. Bob Bennett is a well-known veteran of the 3D software industry, having worked on 3D Studio, Maya and now modo®.  Currently he is in charge of marketing at Luxology. The interview is about him, Luxology and also about modo®, the artist-friendly 3D software that combines modeling, sculpting, painting, animation and rendering in a fused workflow. We would like to thank Bob again for his time by answering our questions. 

Autodesk Labs has released Project Geppetto, its experimental new crowd simulation system for 3ds Max. Geppetto is a data-driven animation system that offers high level control of plausible human motion. Creating and editing Geppetto crowds is done using simple geometric shapes and paths. It comes with a set of animations for use in common settings like sidewalks, hallways, lobbies and plazas. Architects, engineers and designers can use this project to enrich the context of their presentations with realistic human activity. 

The modo 501 Rigging Master Course consists of 26 hours of video training housed in an interactive framework which discover the concepts and techniques essential to rigging models for animation in modo 501. Your instructor will be Rich Hurrey. At this time is Mr Hurrey a modeling and character technical director at Pixar Animation Studios. He takes you from the basics of the modo interface and tools, through to covering in-depth such challenging topics as „Inverse Kinematics“and the „Schematic Viewport“. 

Carlos Pardo from FANATICFLUIDS talks about how he used RealFlow Standard Emitters and the RealFlow Render Kit V2 for Meshing in his last work. When he wants to complete his project, he must to face a problem of morphing water. It means how to change water from a droplet, into letters, finishing in the shape of a bottle and generating all the different high resolution meshes of the project from just ONE particle simulation. Solving this he commented by following words: