3D PICS

Wow, just another great character artist: Rafael Grassetti. Have a look at his portfolio and see some of his jaw dropping sculpting.

Rafael Grassetti

Today we have two nice character artists from Montreal, Canada: Ashley and Kolby Jukes, a married couple with the same passion for 3D. And they are both pretty good. Have a look at their portfolios and find some impressive game titles, i.e. Mass Effect 2.

Ashley Jukes

Kolby Jukes

“A determined young boy, Ragu, is sent by his master on his final quest to become a monk. A seemingly simple task becomes an unexpected challenge for Ragu as he discovers the real value of his quest.”
A 3D-short by Brendan Carroll and Francesco Giroldini. Nice movie, very talented guys.

There’s a new version for 3D Coat:

Source: 3D Coat forums

“Updated to 3.3.14 (Win only, Mac & Linux – soon)

- I made possibility to upload turnables automatically, very easy- see example - http://bit.ly/d3H3rc
- non-connected objects will be supported for Auto-retopo.
- Falloff will work in eraser tool too
- I made nice models preview in Merge/spline tools instead of old ugly file tree. I made this maily because I am about to provide big library of models in merge/spline tool and it will be just impossible to use it without nice previews. This is how it looks now - http://bit.ly/ds5R2I
- I disabled possibility to transform volume in proxy mode from surface to voxels to prevent loses. It changes nothing in workflow but prevents random loses while working with proxy.
- It will be possible to smooth UV islands edges in UV room in brush mode.
- Incorrect work of Split and Cut&Clone on some objects fixed (dense objects with high Split Border value).
- There is new and useful item in VoxTree RMB menu – Merge visible
- VoxTree/Shaders will be accesible in render room too”

Mark Molnar

Another nice illustrator and concept artist is Mark Molnar, who contacted me through… yes… twitter. I love this place. And of course the work of Mark Molnar. Check it out.

http://markmolnar.com/

Greg Taylor

Watch the 2D fantasy art of Greg Taylor. He features some nice pics on his portfolio page.

http://gregtaylorart.daportfolio.com

MAXON announced today the immediate availability of CINEMA 4D Release 12, which waves the modules goodbye. You can still purchase bundles with different functionalities, but you won’t be able to buy sperate modules anymore.

Source: MAXON Website press release

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Saloon is a short animation by Thiago Martins from the Vancouver Film School. Very fun stuff!

Including a making of:

The latest version of the color correction plugin for Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro ist now available for 575,- US$.

Source: http://www.synthetic-ap.com/press/pr100823.html

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CG Channel features a nice video from Brad Peebler (Luxology) talking about the possibilites of GPU and CPU rendering. He recorded it after Siggraph and it contains some interesting infos.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2010/08/gpu-vs-cpu-rendering-talk-by-luxology/