3d fantasy artist DeeDee has a very interesting real-world comparison between Poser and Vue as a render…
Vue 11 in German and French
All editions of the Vue 11 landscape software (Pioneer, Theme Packs, Frontier, Esprit, Studio, Complete, Kitchen Sink With Pink Spots…) are now available in German and French.
Reality 3 for Poser – due for March 2013 release
Reality 3 for Poser 9 / Poser Pro 2012 SR3 is scheduled to be released in April 2013, at $59.95. It’s a plugin that connects Poser to the power of the free LuxRender high end render engine. Here’s the preview video… Apparently it’ll be fully integrated with the Poser interface, and will include auto materials-conversion
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3D Art mag – using Poser 2012 with Vue 11
The latest free 3D Art magazine (#25) has a lead article with Arthur Dorety, on using Poser Pro 2012 and Vue 11.
KeyShot 4
Luxion has announced a beta of Keyshot version 4. It’s a simple and stable standalone high-end renderer, that’s very easy to use with characters exported as FBX from DAZ Studio. It’s quite expensive, but if you can get some academic ID there’s an educational version for $95.00. * updated, cleaner user interface. * enhancements to
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Tutorial: a DS3 workflow with Light Dome Pro 2 and Mood Master 2
Here’s a quick and easy ten-step workflow tutorial for DAZ Studio 3 users, on how to use a combination of Light Dome Pro 2 and Mood Master 2, to quickly light and then to fog/haze a large-scale outdoors scene. Followed by an easy compositing of the renders in Photoshop, and adding some FX. Here’s the
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Voting now: Renderosity Halloween 2012 Contest
Cast your vote now now, for one of the 148 3D entries for the Renderosity Halloween 2012 Contest…
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Tutorial: elevate your cuteness
Vladimir Chopine (GeekAtPlay) has a new free 25-minute video tutorial, on using Poser with Vue and Photoshop/Filterforge to create a painterly final picture…
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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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New free Cinema 4D student edition
The traditional 3D software Cinema 4D has released a… “free, fully functional, Student Edition of Cinema 4D”. Specifically, the new version 14. Which potentially saves you about $1,000. Nice, but it’s actually not quite fully functional. There’s no plugin support in the student version (so presumably Poser Pro 2012 users won’t be able to use
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The Octane renderer has a new blog
The external Octane renderer now has its own blog. I took a close look at using Poser with Octane, back in March 2012, when Octane was still an unstable beta.
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3D World reviews Reality 2 for DAZ Studio
3D World magazine deigns to glance at the hobbyist sector for once in a blue moon, with a new review of the Reality 2 plug-in for Daz Studio. If you have lots of older Poser content in your DAZ, and run your PC with an Nvidia graphics card, then (judging by the review) it looks
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New issue of 3D Art
New issue of the free sci-fi and fantasy art magazine, 3D Art. Issue 20 (Aug 2012) gives us a detailed interview article on… “the history of Renderosity, the staff behind the website and where it might be going next? Discover more about this remarkable community of digital artists, which has grown tremendously since 1999.”
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3DS Max 2013 to export layered Photoshop files
The new 3DS Max 2013 (shipping 12th April 2012) has new features that may make it more interesting than before, for Poser Pro 2012 users using it with the PoserFusion plugin. These include among the features list… “a new ability to output renderings in a layered PSD [Photoshop] format”
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