Sponsored Mags June 2011 (Read more...)

Hiperia3D News is sponsor of 3D Creative and 2D Artist, publications of 3D Total. These publications can be purchased in high quality PDF and contain lots of articles of great value for 3D modelers, 2D artists and everyone that loves any aspect of computer graphics art.

To visit the magazines' sites and get them, click the banner images.

This month, here are the contents of the new issues:

3D Creative

- 10 of the best images of 3D artists around the world

- Interview with Philip Herman, character modeler

- Sculpting: classical Roman digital sculpture

- Unreal games engine tutorial

- Modeling features of the human anatomy

 

http://www.3dcreativemag.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2D Artist

- Interview: Lee Chak Khuen

- Sketchbook: The Sketchbook of Damien Mammoliti

- The Gallery: 10 of the Best 2D Artworks

- Tutorial Series: Painting Tribal Warriors - Chapter 1: Aztec by Richard Tilbury

- Tutorial Series: Pin-Up - Chapter 2: Classic
by Serge Birault

- Tutorial Series: Matte Painting - Chapter 1: Concept
by Piotrek Swigut

- Tutorial Series: Photoreal Fantasy - Chapter 6:
Loch Ness Monster by Weiye Yin

- Making Of: My Little Lemmy - Project Overview
by Serge Birault

- Promotion: Digital Art Masters:v5 - Free Chapter Book Promotion

http://www.2dartistmag.com/

MeshMixer05 (Read more...)

Just released: meshmixer05. New stuff includes:

- Reduce and Refine brushes to manage polycount, and an AdaptiveReduce brush that reduces while preserving details

- a ZipperEdge brush and a zipper-weld workflow to sew together arbitrary mesh boundaries - Extrusions of face areas, with hard edges

- a Bridge/Tunnel tool for joining areas

- a SmoothBoundary tool that creates clean edge loops for cutting, extruding, bridging, etc

- A fast binary file format (.mix)

- AutoSave - UI improvements (selection symmetry, free rotate, LMB-only camera controls, ...)

- Tons of bugfixes and stability enhancements

meshmixer05 is a free for Windows and OSX at http://www.meshmixer.com Follow future development on twitter@meshmixer

 

Shade 12 (Read more...)

Mirye Software and E Frontier announce the release of Shade 12.0.3, a major update to the Shade 3D product line of modeling, rendering and animation tools.

Shade 12.0.3 is available on both the Windows (32 and 64 bit) and Mac OS X platforms and free to existing customers. This release includes many performance improvements as well as new features and feature enhancements over the previously released Shade 12 in English, first available in February, 2011. Shade 3D is also available through the Apple Mac App Store.

General Improvements

- Update Background Texture on File Open. In Preferences > View Tab, option to automatically update background textures whenever a file is opened.

- Tool Parameters. Scrollbar is now available when the Tool Parameters window is docked.

- Subdivision Surfaces. The preset values in the Tool Parameters sets values when a mesh is created.

- Mirrored Objects Preview. Mirror object are now able to display in wireframe

- Python Scripting Improvements. New attribute "message" added in "message_view" for set and get message between message window.

- New Mesh Selection Parameters

- New options and shortcuts added to the Mesh menu, including selection of Visible Only. Shaded display supports visible only (default behavior of Shade 12). Wireframe by default supports Front and Back. Shaded display supports Visible only (the normal Shade 12 default).

- New Preview and Draft Rendering

3D Stereoscopic Rendering Improvements

- Set Custom 3D Devices. Create custom 3D monitor size and resolution profiles, accessible through the Monitor Setting By popup menu and through the Image Window.

- Custom Profiles. Provides several preset monitor size and resolution settings profiles, including Nintendo 3DS, Sharp 3D Smartphone, FUJIFILM FinePix REAL 3D W3, NVIDIA 3D Vision compatible monitors and HDTV.

- AutoDetect Best Settings. Shade cna automatically detect the best monitor and output settings based on current hardware profiling.

- Side by Side Rendering. Supports both full static and animation for side by side rendering.

Import and Export Improvements

- MPO Improvements. Optimized based on specific custom profiles for exporting in this format.

- COLLADA Improvements. COLLADA import and export support ambient light options. COLLADA for BlueMars support now available in Shade 64-bit version.

- 3DS Improvements. Import and export support Ambient light options.

- OBJ Improvements. Import and export supports Ambient light options. Supports multiple UV layers.

Shade 12.0.3 is available as a full download only and works with existing Shade 12 licenses.

Shade 12 is available as Shade Basic ($99), Shade Standard ($349) and Shade Professional ($749), under the Shade For Friends campaign. Customers who purchase or upgrade to Shade Standard or Shade Professional will receive either two or four additional activation codes that they can give to friends and are redeemable during the campaign time for copies of Shade Basic.

Shade 12.0.3 is available through the Shade download site at http://www.shadetrial.com as a 30 day, free trial.

Ceramics For 3D Printing (Read more...)

Shapeways announces the launch of a glazed ceramics material for the printing of your 3D models, that will be available until August as a test. As happened before with other 3D printing materials, if the results are satisfactory both for users, builders and the business, the material will be added to the wide range of currently avaliable materials at Shapeways.

Read more about this new possibility at Shapeways' blog:
http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/839-Introducing-3D-Printed-Glazed-Ceramics.html

Contest: Create A Monster For Rift (Read more...)

The game RIFT in collaboration with DeviantArt announces a contest to design a super-monster enemy for their game using any technique including 3D modeling. You can win an Intuos4 tablet and other fantastic prizes.

You have until June 19th, 2011.

See the rules and details here:
http://fav.me/n151243