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ZBrush Feature Videos

Andi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:07:56 +0000

Auf der ZBrush-Webseite gibt es einige Videos zu den neuen Features. Die Seite ist leider durch den massiven Ansturm völlig überlastet, aber ich habe eine alternative Quelle gesucht:

Die Videos sind alle in einer Playlist angeordnet und werden somit nacheinander abgespielt.

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ZBrush 4 erschienen

Andi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:27:32 +0000

Gerade noch rechtzeitig zum versprochenen Datum ist heute Nacht das 3D-Sculpting-Tool ZBrush in Version 4 veröffentlicht worden. Die Webseite von Pixologic ist leider gerade etwas überlastet, deshalb nachfolgend die Features der neuen Version.

Die Feature-Liste kann sich sehen lassen:

ZProjects
* Save all loaded tools, document size, light, material, timeline and render settings in one click.
* ZBrush 4 even includes sample projects to help you discover new features.

Best Preview Render
* Renders Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Fibers, SSS and Transparency with advanced anti-aliasing.
* Multi-pass rendering with Shadow, Color, Ambient Occlusion, Mask and Depth as separate maps.
* Render for still images or animations.

Project presentation
* Timeline for more than just simple turntables and animations.
* Keyframe management: copy, move, etc.
* Audio support with color beats for manual animation synchronization.
* Fade in/out and cut keyframes for nice transitions.
* Ease in/out keyframes.
* MDD animation file format support for exporting and importing animation.
* Animation-capable layers, Tools, ZSpheres, background and more.

Concept creation
* Shadow Box for free-form creation.
* Move Elastic Brush to create stretch-free extrusions.
* Reproject improved for more finely tuned control of the results.
* Mannequin for quick scene setup.
* TransPose units to help you in proportions and sizes.

Hard Sculpting
* Clip brushes for slicing your models.
* By Radius and By Polygroups modes for the Clip brushes.
* Shadow Box to create original sculpting bases, combined with radial symmetry.
* New Strokes: Circle, Square, Curves.

Major brushes:
* MatchMaker, the perfect brush to deform your mesh to conform to other 3D models.
* Deco brushes, turn, spin – perfect for creative patterns!
* Clay Buildup will be your new Clay brush for the rough sculpting.
* Move Elastic, Move Topo, Move Parts: Stretch and deform with no constraints.

Strokes:
* Roll mode improved with the Roll distance.
* New lasso/marquee selection mode, circle by center, perfect circle, curve for masking and hiding.
* Marquee, Lasso and Circle strokes working with symmetry for hiding, masking and slicing.

Pipeline and Productivity
* GoZ with Autodesk Maya (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Autodesk 3DSMax (2009, 2010, 2011), Luxology modo 401 (Sp2 to sp5), Cinema 4D R11 and R11.5
* GoZ SDK for integrating GoZ in additional software packages.
* Xpose to explode all SubTools, making it easy to work on a hidden one or create stunning animated effects.
* SubTool Duplicate and Insert, List All + ABC, Merge All for more flexibility when working on complex models.
* Solo mode to quickly isolate the current SubTool.

3D Painting and Materials
* PolyPaint Layers for more freedom in 3D painting.
* SpotLight to edit textures on the fly and then use them to paint by projection.
* Gradient transparency for anti-aliased transparency in PolyPainting.
* New shaders: Fast Overlay and Fresnel Overlay for more effects in your materials.
* New Fresnel and SSS settings for more realistic materials!
* New Blinn Specular added to the default shader for a better skin specular effect.
* Large number of blending modes between materials: Add, Subtract, difference, darken, etc.

Misc
* Topology auto masking to protect closed areas which are not directly connected.
* Elasticity settings to stretch your model without stretching the topology.
* Orientation settings: rotate your alphas while sculpting.
* Tile alphas for more creativity with brushes.
* Non-Square alphas are supported, avoiding distortions.
* Contact support for SubTools: deform multiple SubTools while maintaining your defined contact points between them!
* Relax Deformation: relax your topology without altering the shape.
* Inflate Balloon Deformation for a variation of the relax deformation.
* Deformations are now in real-time when moving the sliders, giving you live feedback.
* New File menu to manage all content.

Plugins
* Decimation Master is now 64bits.
* Original size is kept when exporting with 3D Print Exporter.
* Unwrap all SubTools at once with UVMaster.
* New Multi-map exporter for fast and easy creation of many maps at once including: normal, displacement, ambient occlusion, etc.
* Various additions in SubTool Master and TransPose Master.

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Nukepedia: Sammlung von Skripten, Tutorials und mehr zu Nuke

Andi — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:13:28 +0000

Nukepedia ist noch relativ jung, aber es gibt schon eine schöne Sammlung an Python-Skripten für die Compositing-Software Nuke. Auch einige Tutorials und Interviews sind schon vorhanden.

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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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CSS3 Twitter Fail Whale

Andi — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:35:09 +0000

Der von dem Onlinedienst Twitter bekannte Fail Whale als animierte CSS3-Version.


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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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