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ARTIXELS, today announced debut visual effects (VFX) software plug-in album Escher, scheduled for official release in December 2012.
ARTIXELS 宣布推出 Nuke 外卦軟件 ” Escher ” , 內含8款高階外卦工具包括 Spherical Harmonics processing nodes製作 light probe image projection 及 lambertian shading , 還有 image-space occlusion shading 及fake skin shading nodes, renders animated underwater style caustics 及photo-realistic sky rendering等等.
預計軟件將於年尾推出 , 想了解及測試可聯絡他們 , 這是個香港出品的外卦軟件!!

Pixar Announces RenderMan Studio 4.0
Pixar 推出全新 RenderMan網站及宣布推出 RenderMan Studio 4.0 , 以全新$1,300美金轟炸市場 !!

MAXON makes the CINEMA 4D Student Version available for free to students.
做乜咁開心 ??? MAXON推出 CINEMA 4D 學生版 , 當然是免費的 !!

Autodesk Maya 2013 – Bonus Tools
Autodesk Maya 2013 的 Bonus Tools 已可免費下載 !!
新增 工具如下
Modify -> Drag Move Tool
Modify -> Mirror Translate/Rotate
Modify -> Copy Pivot from Last Selected
Modify -> Align Pivot(s) to Bounding Box
Window -> Attribute Editor Template Builder
Animation -> Pose Blend Shape Editor
Modeling -> Flatten Components
Modeling -> Slide Components
Modeling -> Delete Edge Tool
Modeling -> Delete Vertex Edges Tool
Modeling -> N-Sided to Quad Tool
Rendering -> Refresh Texture Swatches
Rendering -> Auto Layer Texture(s)

CrossShade : Shading concept sketches using cross-section curves [SIGGRAPH 2012 Paper ]
CrossShade : 利用線條的交接位置計算出繪圖的Shading製成美觀的圖像 , 懂畫線都變成繪圖高手 , 這研究已入選SIGGRAPH2012 paper

Download Autodesk Smoke 2013 Pre-Release Trial FREE
Autodesk 的後期處理軟件Smoke for Mac 2013預計年尾推出 , 現有Pre-Release 試用版免費下載使用(到九月中)

Faceshift – realtime markerless motion capture at every desk
利用Kinect 進行Real Time 動畫臉部表情的套取軟件”Faceshift” 在Siggraph asia 可能都見過 , 的確非常強勁 , 已推出公測版本 ~~ truebones近日亦發表有關教學影片

Unreal Engine 4 Elemental Demo
Epic Games 在E3 2012中正式發布Unreal Engine 4 的示範預告片 , 以及由Epic Games Senior Technical Artist Alan Willard 實時示範
