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ZBrush 4 erscheint am 09.08.2010

Andi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:06:14 +0000

Das Digital-Sculpting-Tool ZBrush von Pixologic soll am 9. August endlich in der Version 4 erscheinen.

Neuerungen sind unter anderem GoZBrush für Windows und Lightbox/Spotlight. Letztere kann man im offiziellen Forum schon in einem Video in Aktion sehen. Weitere Neuerungen werden auf der Siggraph 2010, die vom 27.- 29. Juli stattfindet, vorgestellt.

Für alle die eine aktuelle Version des Programms besitzen wird dieses Upgrade kostenlos sein.

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Autodesk Maya 2011 Hotfix 3 erschienen

Andi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:03 +0000

Autodesk hat für die aktuelle Version ihres 3D-Werkzeugs Maya den dritten Hotfix veröffentlicht. Die behobenen Fehler sind in einem Readme-PDF aufgelistet.

Wer Hotfix 3 einspielen will, muss dafür Maya komplett deinstallieren und neu aufsetzten. Die Fixes aus den vorhergehenden Updates sind enthalten.

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Adobe Creative Suite 5: Michael Coleman on After Effects CS5

Andi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:35:15 +0000

Bei Motionworks gibt es ein Video des After Effects Produktmanagers Michael Coleman, der einige der neuen Features vorstellt.

Einige der neuen Features in Kurzzusammenfassung:

64-bit After Effects CS5 application, with improved performance and memory features
Roto Brush tool
Refine Matte effect
AVC-Intra import, improved RED (R3D) support, and improved ProRes handling
Added Digieffects FreeForm
Added Imagineer mocha shape for After Effects plug-in and improved mocha for After Effects planar tracker application (version 2)
Auto-keyframe mode
Apply Color LUT effect for using color lookup tables
Align panel improvements, including ability to align layers to the edges and center of a composition
Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 3, with support for 32-bpc color

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Photoshop CS5 Sneekpeak

Andi — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:48:01 +0000

Video anschauen

Demnächst erscheint ja auch die Adobe Creative Suite 5. In dem Video kann man sich schon einmal einige Neuerungen von Photoshop CS5 ansehen.

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Maya 2011: Weitere Details und erste Videos

Andi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:11:01 +0000

Im Mayalicious Blog schreibt Cory Mogk ausführlich über die Neuerungen in Maya und die ersten Videos zu einigen der Features sind auch schon im Youtube-Kanal von Autodesk aufgetaucht. Besonders freut mich, dass die Oberfläche nun endlich dunkel ist und das Maya nun Unterstützung für einen linearen Gamma-Workflow bietet.

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Maya 2011 mit 64-Bit-Unterstützung für OS Ⅹ

Andi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:48 +0000

Autodesk hat auf der Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Maya 2011 vorgestellt. Endlich wurde die Benutzeroberfläche überarbeitet und ist somit einfacher an die eigenen Bedürfnisse anpassbar. Maya läuft nun auch unter OS Ⅹ im 64-Bit-Modus.

Hier die weiteren Neuerungen:

Enhanced User Interface
Enjoy a consistent, enhanced user experience on all supported platforms with an updated user interface that offers a fresh new look, dockable UI elements, more flexible editors, and a new color chooser and file browser.

Accelerated Skinning Workflow
Create better skinned characters with more realistic deformations in less time, with new skinning tools and workflows: a dual quaternion option for smooth skinning, interactive volume binding, multiple enhancements to the Paint Skin Weights tool, deformer weight mirroring, and a surface falloff mode for the Wrap deformer.

Non-Destructive Live Retargeting
More quickly and easily reuse, correct, and enhance motion-capture and certain other animation data with a new non-destructive retargeting workflow which uses the Autodesk® HumanIK® (HIK) libraries. Transfer animation from one character to another and adjust retargeting parameters live to see and edit results without the need to re-bake.

64-bit Support for Mac OS Ⅹ
Mac OS Ⅹ users can access considerably more memory to handle larger and more complex scenes with the new 64-bit executable.

3D Editorial
Accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making production with new 3D Editorial capabilities in Maya. The new Camera Sequencer enables artists to layout and manage multiple camera shots in a single animation sequence. Start laying out shots in Maya, or import an EDL from editorial with associated movie, audio, and time code information. Then change the timings of shots, create alternate versions, and use Playblast to playback and review the sequence before optionally re-exporting an EDL to editorial for further refinement.

Enhancements to Assets and File Referencing
More easily segment, re-use, and exchange data with or without file referencing. Data can be exported and imported as offline files to flexibly partition scenes, while reference edits can be imported, exported, and removed without unloading. A new option to create assets with transforms (DAG assets) enables them to be directly positioned, parented, instanced, and light-linked, streamlining the most common assets workflows.

Color Management
Make better decisions and preserve creative intent throughout the rendering pipeline by working within the context of the final color space in which images can be viewed. A working color profile can be set globally and overridden on individual textures and render passes. With new 32-bit support in the Render View, display images through LUTs, and control Contrast, Exposure, Tone Mapping, and Gamma. Initial support is through mental ray® for Maya renderer, with a robust API to enable other renderers to take advantage of the system.

Qt User Interface Toolkit
Maya now uses the Qt user interface, resulting in a number of advantages for technical users. For example, users can more easily create interface components for proprietary tools with Qt Designer and load them directly into Maya.

Large Scene Performance
A new interactive viewport significantly improves display frame rates. Level editors and other users working with large scenes and many textures can achieve frame rates several times faster than possible with previous versions of Maya by enabling this display method.

Vector Paint in Maya Composite
Perform complex rotoscoping operations such as removing or replacing elements from live action plates using the new vector paint option in Maya Composite.

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Samurai Animation

Andi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:40:24 +0000

Samurai from Phil Shoebottom on Vimeo.

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How Animation Works

Andi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:22:20 +0000

Das Cirkus Animation Studio erklärt wie es in der Welt der Animation zugeht. (via)(via)

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Artikel Tags: 2D, 3d, animation, Cirkus, Motion Design

Die Anfänge von After Effects

Andi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:43:30 +0000

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Tracksperanto

Andi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:21:43 +0000

Camera tracking needs precise, hand-tailored 2D tracks. The promise of automatic 2D tracking is grand, but often fails expectations — mainly because auto-tracking algorithms cannot reliably link points which disappear or get obscured. For many shots 2D tracking by hand is a better option (it also allows you to speed up the solve by using less features). However, the solve also depends of the algorithm and it’s always beneficial to try the solve in all the matchmoving software available. Solving with the same features also gives a good comparison between different camera solving engines.

Tracksperanto allows you to track once in a program of your choice and then export the resulting features to all suppoorted 3D solving apps. Once there, it’s a 15 minute job to configure the camera and see if the solve comes out well or not. This method tends to yield very good results since you track at least one of the many 3D solvers on the market will give a correct computation. Translation is multidirectional – most of the formats are supported both for reading and writing.

Kurz gesagt, Tracksperanto macht es möglich Tracking-Daten von verschiedenen 3D-Trackern zu konvertieren. Und das Ganze online und kostenlos.

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Artikel Tags: 3d, Matchmoving, Tracking