Archive for March, 2010

Mental Ray 3.8 Features

Autodesk released the new features in the latest revision of Mental Ray.
The same will be available in new versions of its 3D (XSI, Maya, Max) by the integration capabilities of each software.
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Mari, new paint software for 3D models

The Foundry announced a new software for texturing 3D models, it was for internal use at Weta pot that was used in films like "Lord of the Rings" and "Avatar."
It is designed to work with high-resolution models, textures supports up to 32K, lots of layers, multiple depth images [...]

The ILM and Pixar renderfarms

In Slashfilm published an interesting article about render farms Lucas Film and Pixar.

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The production of "How to train your dragon"

Record CG large amount of material published on the production of the latest film from Dreamworks.

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Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

A video showing one of the best features included in the new version of Photoshop Content Aware-Fill.