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Poser Pro 2014 announced, priced and dated

Smith Micro have just officially announced Poser Pro 2014, and they’ve even priced and dated it: 21st May 2013! Here are the new features, with my comments on each: * There’s a new Pro-version only “Fitting Room”… “to convert your existing clothing and props to fit any figure”. Useful, although third-party software such as CrossDresser

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Carrara 9 dated by DAZ

Hot from the Carrara Cafe! News that DAZ Carrara 8.5 is to be released at the end of summer 2013, with Carrara 9 set to follow perhaps Christmas 2013 or in the first quarter of 2014. Carrara 8.5 will include… – Support for up to Windows 8 and Mac OSX 10.8 – DSON support –

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Renderosity design makeover

Web site design makover at Renderosity. I run an ad-blocker or three, so your mileage may vary — but this is what it looks like to me… not too much difference than before.

 
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Poser Expo 2013

The 3D sci-fi and fantasy artzine 3D Art is stepping up a gear, in running the forthcoming Poser Expo (22nd-24th March 2013), a… “Unique gathering of industry and community leaders from the world of Poser”. 3D Art also has a neat podcast radio interview with Syyd of the Runtime DNA store, which is home of

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Steampunk magazine

Steampunk magazine now has a new section devoted to art, which some readers here may be interested in. Judging by the editor’s existing taste, I’d say straight bald 3D renders might not make the cut. They’d probably need to be over-painted or tooned, or heavily Photoshopped.

 
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Free webinar: What’s new in Manga Studio 5?

Digital comics makers who draw or paint over their DAZ/Poser renders for might be interested in a free webinar from Smith Micro on “What’s New in Manga Studio 5?”. Despite its somewhat misleading name, the specialist graphics software Manga Studio 5 is not just for manga artists. It’s just about the best dedicated comic-book production

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3D Universe website makeover

Daz/Poser toon specialists 3D Universe have given their website a makeover. It looks as though it’s configured for an iPad now… Some bits and bobs appear to have been lost in the move, like the free Mimic files for Noodle the Cat. Plus, their webmaster broke all their inbound product Web links with a new

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Octane for Poser/DAZ – videos

A first look at the upcoming OctaneRenderer render plugin for Poser, showing the workflow… It’s also coming for DAZ Studio 4.5 too…

 
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DeviantArt’s new Dreamup commissioning service

Can you make money with your digital art? The well-known fantasy and sci-fi art website DeviantArt thinks you can, via its new (beta) commercial commissioning service, Dreamup.com. It’s nice to see them set a price threshold, of a decent $200 (about £130) for a finished picture — so there should be no eLance-style “race to

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Renderosity annual user survey

The official Renderosity annual user survey is underway. There’s one version for content vendors, and one for buyers.

 
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DAZ at the Olympics

Adam Ismail talks to the UK’s Digital Arts magazine about how he created fresh Olympics Team GB posters with DAZ Studio…

 
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European Court of Justice gives resale rights in downloaded software

Interesting consumer news from Europe… “Users of digitally downloaded software can sell it on secondhand, providing they deactivate or delete the original copy from their hard drive, the European Court of Justice has ruled.” “The ECJ said that software owners exhaust their rights to control the sale of their copyrighted products when they first sell

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German Poser versions now available

Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 are now available in native German-language versions… “Ab sofort konnt ihr die erfolgreiche Figurengestaltungssoftware Poser 9 und erstmals auch Poser Pro 2012 in deutscher Sprache bestellen.”

 
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Poser 2012 physics – video demo

Poser 2012‘s new physics engine add-on is coming soon. PoserPhysics has a summary of the features we can expect, and two video demonstrations. Here’s one of the videos..

 
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