Easy Atlas pour Maya

May 6, 2015, 09:52 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-13138-easy-atlas-may...

Seigi Sato presents Easy Atlas, a free tool that he developed for Maya (2014 and later). It allows to easily create textures atlas. These are very useful for video games as possible to reduce the number of draw calls, and thus improve performance. Easy Atlas uses Photoshop (at least from version CS3) to merge textures in the same atlas, and Maya to rearrange the UVs. The user can define the proportions of textures depending on the size of the different objects, and so the detail to give to every...

Meshmixer passe en version 2.9

May 6, 2015, 05:12 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-13133-meshmixer-pass...

Autodesk Announces Meshmixer 2.9 , new version of its free tool to merge and edit 3D objects. If a number of innovations are at the rendezvous, the Advanced Master is the many editing tools rewriting so they finally manage textures . UV Specifically, you can use the functions sculpt, Remesh, boolean, erase, fill, reduce without destroying UVs. Autodesk provides a concrete example using Reduce to reduce the number of polygons of a 3D scan, while maintaining the original texture.

Tips for Using Maya 2016’s New Modeling Displays

May 5, 2015, 10:48 AM

http://lesterbanks.com/2015/05/tips-for-using-maya...

Tips for working with Maya's new In-context modeling displays...

Former Pixar developer builds a plug-and-play hobb

May 5, 2015, 10:47 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/05/modulo-kickstar...

You won't know Erin Tomson by name, but she's one of the minds that helped build the tools that Pixar uses to make its movies. Now, the developer has left the studio to found Modulo Labs, a startup that wants to take the intimidation factor out of maker projects. Modulo is, in essence, a set of pre-made circuit boards that work with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, letting you build devices to your whims without a lot of messy soldering.

Panel Navigator Offers Speedy Project Panel Naviga

May 2, 2015, 12:58 PM

http://lesterbanks.com/2015/05/project-panel-navig...

If you have ever felt like the After Effects Project Panel is a little kludge to navigate, then the Project Panel Navigator might be for you

Top 10 tutorials from January to March 2015

May 2, 2015, 09:07 AM

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_interviews_detailed.p...

If you've just finished your latest project and need to get your teeth into something new, or you've been searching around for your next magic hit of inspiration, look no further than the top viewed tutorials on 3dtotal from the last 3 months. Featuring Victor Hugo Sousa's guide to transforming 2D concepts to 3D, Digital-Tutors explanation of texture maps, and crafting ZBrush environments, there's plenty of inspiration for your next project!

Cinema 4D Experiment 5

May 2, 2015, 09:06 AM

http://motionworks.net/c4d-experiment-5/

For Experiment 5 I used the Cinema 4D Landscape object with Explosion FX Deformer. I went for a low poly look but you may come up with something completely different.Take at least 30 minutes and see what you can create. The focus here is Landscape and Explosion FX but feel free to do some compositing in After Effects. Cinema 4D Lite users can also join in on this one, although it’s quite a slow render via Cineware. When you’re done, save a JPG and post it in the comments. The file could prob...

Shotgun's Don Parker Blogs About A 90-Second Beer

April 28, 2015, 08:35 PM

http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/news/2015/4/28/sho...

In a Shotgun Blog post from March 27th 2015, Don Parker discusses the results of a recent non-scientific poll. He asked Shotgun customers about their future plans and current issues regarding Rendering on the Cloud. The whole blog article is very enlighting if you are interested in Cloud Rendering, or in the effect of liquid stimuli on poll participation. But one of the results made us naturally quite happy - nearly 30% of all 125 studios who participated in the poll use Deadline!  Ch...

PVC at NAB 2015: Talking Cinema 4D with Paul Babb

April 28, 2015, 12:28 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/pvc-at-nab-2015-talki...

Renderman: Make a Tree with RIS

April 28, 2015, 04:46 AM

http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-13055-renderman-rend...

Pixar continues to expand its tutorials for RenderMan with a tutorial on the full rendering of a tree under RIS . The video tutorial is divided into four parts, the first of which is shown below; the sources are of course available.