Apple has chosen our great benchmark to measure the performance of their new Mac Pro. If you go to http://www.apple.com/macpro/performance.html you can see that under 3D Maya 2008, you can see that the new Macpro is 2.1x times faster.
Scenome builds geo-referenced OpenSceneGraph-compatible terrain from DEM and GEOTIFF imagery. Featuring OpenGL rendering, parametric construction tools, fast previews, and automagic texturing, Scenome delivers accurate results and convenience features found nowhere else.
At cg-blog.com they have posted a nice making of for the Citroen Runner commercial, done by TheEmbassyVfx
Explore Houdini 9 and its fun, easy-to-learn UI that puts the power of Houdini within everyone’s grasp.
The Houdini 9 Public Beta can be run as a non-commercial Apprentice version, which contains all of Houdini Master’s features with a few minor limitations:
* a small unobstrusive watermark
* a non-commercial file format
* and a maximum render resolution of 720×576.
Next Limit Technologies is pleased to announce that a new update of RealFlow4 (version 4.3) has been released. According to the company, this is an important update and more than just a bug fix; there are several new and improved features. Also, an updated version of the Cinema4D plug-in for both Windows and Mac is now available for download.
A full-featured watermarked version, RenderMan for Maya Eval, is available for download today. Just register with Pixar and download it for free, and find out what RenderMan has to offer.
The new TREE STORM 5.9 plugin for 3DS Max9 enables you to model trees created with OnyxTREE BROADLEAF, OnyxTREE CONIFER, and OnyxPALM generators or TREE CLASSIC generator directly into Max and animate the trees on the wind. There are TREE STORM 5.9 for Max9 (32-bit + 64-bit) and TREE STORM 5.6 for Max8/7/6.
Great contest of monumental architecture last and present carried out by the genius of the man!
The goal of this contest is to promote the wonders of the modern and old architecture (historical reconstitutions, Effel Tower, Dubaï artificial islands, the Gard bridge, Petronas Towers, Incas pyramids, Victor Horta’s house,…), your project must be based on an existing or has exsting architecture, your are free to add some personnal creativity!
Webseed Studio is a software made by graphists for graphists with wich you can create OpenGL 3D Web applications without any directX plug-in
Applications are compatible with any Java virtual machine (from Microsoft to Sun 1.6) and with Open GL 1.1 to massively spread rich applications.
The workflow defined by graphists is intuitive and the rendering possibilities are powerful
You’ll be able to see examples and download the beta version clicking the image above.
