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Xencelabs Pen Display 16 Lite: 4K OLED in a 12 mm Shell
Xencelabs launches the Pen Display 16 Lite, a 12 mm, 1.2 kg 4K OLED tablet with Super AG Etching and EMR pen support. The device targets mobile artists who need wide-gamut color accuracy on the go, with pricing starting at US$ 800 and the full Pen Display 16 Bundle listed at US$1250
Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14: OLED Power for Mobile Creativity
Wacom has announced the MovinkPad Pro 14, the newest member of its portable creative pad lineup. Building on…
Rebelle 8 Hits Early Access: Brushes Get Bristly, Updates Get Sensible
Rebelle 8 enters Early Access with new Bristle Brushes, NanoPixel 2, RealShader, SoftShadows, and a perpetual license with 1-year free updates.
Wacom MovinkPad 11: Standalone Sketching, No PC (or iPad) Required
Wacom MovinkPad 11 offers an 11.45″ Android tablet, pro-grade pen, and PC-free sketching for $449. Ready for artists wanting less Apple, more drawing.
Oil Gets Real: Rebelle 8’s RealShader and SoftShadows Put Ray Tracing on the Canvas
Escape Motions unveils Rebelle 8 with RealShader, real-time ray traced shadows, environment maps and 20× NanoPixel export. Early Access late Q3.
Step Into the Unknown: ‘Worlds Next Door’ Invites Digital Artists to Create and Collaborate
The Blender challenge Worlds Next Door starts June 8. Artists remix a template into looping shorts—no AI, transparent background required.
Adobe Fresco Goes Free
Adobe Fresco is now free for all users. Does it fit into your pipeline? Here’s what you need to know about its potential use in painting and beyond.
A new element is here!
Element, our favourite 3D asset manager, is entering its second version - now with infinite scroll, duplicate detector and the long-awaited assignment of textures and maps to geometry within the manager!
Creating a K-Pop Avatar with Character Creator
Seoul character artist Yunji Jung explains a K-pop-inspired workflow using Character Creator, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance 3D Painter and Photoshop.
XMG Studio tested
A user test: How does XMG Studio perform? And how does the Nvidia card perform?
Reallusion releases iClone Connector for NVIDIA Omniverse
With the new Reallusion iClone Connector, the revolutionary character animation workflow is now available for NVIDIA Omniverse.
Winners of Reallusion’s 2021 iClone Lip Sync Contest
Reallusion's 2021 iClone Lip Sync Animation Contest drew 468 entries from 60 countries and awarded character animation, design and special-prize winners.
Night falls with the Ursa Mini Pro 12K!
As announced in the issue, here are the scenes from the BMD UMP 12K - at night. So if you want to know how good you are as a documentary filmmaker, you can download 5GB of video data free of charge here.
Autodesk 3ds Max 2022.2 Improves UV Editing and Modelling
3ds Max 2022.2 improved scene saving, UV editing, Smart Extrude, tablet input, the UV Editor and the Symmetry modifier.
thinkingParticles 7.0 Adds an MPM Solver and Faster Simulation
thinkingParticles 7.0 introduced a Material Point Method solver, grid-accelerated physics, a Cellular node and a hardware-accelerated particle display.
Removing Road Traffic for an Empty-City VFX Shot
Josh Olufemii and Nick Khoo demonstrated a compositing workflow for removing vehicles from a road to create an abandoned-city effect.
Affinity 1.10 Improves Performance Across Photo, Designer and Publisher
Serif’s Affinity 1.10 release improved memory handling in Publisher, layer blending in Photo and complex-document rendering in Designer.
Job Offer: Professor of Digital Art Compositing in Vienna
At the Institute of Film and Television – Film Academy Vienna – of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the permanent position of a university professor of Digital Art Compositing pursuant to Section 98 UG 2002 is expected to be filled from October 1, 2019.
Mmmm … Delicious.
CG artist Phil Moreton has created deceptively real renderings with "Swiss Delights"—of the tastiest things Switzerland has to offer.
Lee Griggs as a Speaker at FMX
Lee Griggs is Technical Writer for Arnold at Solid Angle. At FMX, he will reveal more about Maya’s XGen feature and the Arnold renderer on Tuesday at 2 pm in the Karlsruhe room.
Autodesk Support for ACES
At NAB, Autodesk announced that the Academy Color Enconding Specification, or ACES, will be supported by Maya, Flame Premium, Shotgun and RV.
Creation Art Templates for After Effects
Creation Effects has released Creation Art Effects. These templates can be used to imitate the look of traditional media such as watercolor pictures or oil paintings in After Effects.
Houdini Engine for UE 4 in Public Beta
Side Effects Software has released the Houdini Engine for Unreal Engine 4 in a public beta version. Here you can download and test the plug-in.
Nucoda & Phoenix 2015.1
Phoenix restoration software and the Nucoda color-grading and finishing tool receive the 2015.1 release update for NAB.
Don Quixote as a 3D Model
Most people are familiar with would-be knight Don Quixote’s battle with windmills. Here you can learn how to build one of the best-known madmen as a 3D model in Cinema 4D.
Tidy Elements with the Rageboard
The grading panels of the "Element" series can be found in many grading suites - and usually in a hopeless mess. But now there is a chassis for this: the "Rageboard".
Showreel with Flowline Simulations
FX TD Tuba Yalcin has released an impressive showreel with many breakdowns created at Scanline using the in-house software Flowline.
Unreal Eye Candys
These three fan videos of forests were made with Unreal Engine 4 and can now hardly be distinguished from real nature footage.
Matte Painting Demo Reel
Margarita Kopaneva is a freelance digital matte painter from Russia and has released an impressive demo reel.
Digital Painting with Howler 9.6
Howler is a digital painting tool for VFX work. The new 9.6 release focuses, among other things, on better performance across different hardware systems.
Modo in Use for Photography
3D illustrator Adrian Chaldecott explains how photographers without 3D knowledge can use Modo from The Foundry to incorporate 3D processes into their photographic work.
Free Nike Air Shoe Model
Munich CG artist Maciek Ptaszynski is making a 3D model of a Nike Air Max 1 available free as an .obj file.
CG Terrain Creation for Dummies
Or in other words, for beginners. In this tutorial, Wayne Robson explains how to quickly create terrain with Autodesk Mudbox.
Creating Vectors Open Source
Inkscape version 0.91 has been released. In terms of its drawing and painting functions, the open-source tool is comparable to Illustrator, CorelDraw and Xara X.
CG Snake and Mouse
Thomas Méduri is an artist from Casablanca. In a making-of video, he explains how his CG still "Equal Forces" was created.
Surrealism for the Digital Modern Age
Furkan Ethem realised the design, animation and sound design for the artistically valuable CG short "Bond" in a surrealist painting style.
VFX Short Film “Polis”
VFX art from Seattle: David Porter has telepathic abilities, battles robotic beings and searches for his mother in the CG short film "Polis".
Concept Art by Kait Kybar
Concept art from Sweden: Kait Kybar is a concept artist at Starbreeze Studios in Stockholm and presents his portfolio on “It’s Art”.
The 3D Art of Lee Griggs
Artist Lee Griggs does not use 3D software in the conventional way and thus creates impressive 3D landscapes – in this case with Autodesk Maya and the Arnold renderer.
Spaghetti Rabbit with Houdini
Easter rabbit with a difference: Houdini artist Raphael Gadot used the SOP Solver and SDF volumes to realise this rabbit composed of spaghetti.
ZBrush 4R7
What takes a long time: ZModeler, instances, KeyShot bridge and 64-bit. The last release before Pixologic brings out ZBrush 5 is packed with new features.
Marvelous Designer 4.5
CLO Virtual Fashion has presented its cloth/simulation tool in version 4.5 – now with OBJ sequences, FBX export, multiple avatars in one file, and much more.
VFX Breakdown of “Guardians of the Galaxy”
"Guardians of the Galaxy" has just picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. Here is an exciting VFX breakdown video from Method Studios.
Tutorial for Thicker Beard Growth
Save yourself expensive miracle hair-growth products and simply strengthen your bearded masculinity with the help of Adobe and Photoshop!
FX Reel by Sébastien Tafani
In it we see work by the French FX artist for Cartier, Kellogg's, and a Lady Gaga-like singer and her music video, among others, as well as several RnD shots.
Matte Painting and Concept Art Showreel
Tony Andreas Rudolph is a 3D matte painter and concept artist from Vancouver, Canada, and has already worked for companies such as Framestore, MPC, Scanline, and Trixter.
For 3D Motorcycle Lovers
Munich artist Maciek Ptaszynski is making his Blender 3D model of a Triumph Bonneville Cafe Racer available as a free download.
Best of the Animated Short Films
Shelley Page from DreamWorks Animation has compiled her personal animated-short-film favourites. The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg is very strongly represented.
Title Sequence Reel
The London studio Huge Designs specialises in title sequences and has compiled its latest ones in its reel.
New Cintiq Model
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015, Wacom is presenting the Cintiq 27QHD and Cintiq 27QHD touch, which offer a large working area.
SpeedGrade CC Learning Resources
Adobe does not want its users to get bored over the holidays and has put together a learning package for the colour-correction tool on its SpeedGrade blog.
Interim Update on the ZBrush 64-Bit Version
The release of ZBrush 4R7 in 32-bit and 64-bit versions was originally planned for the end of 2014. Pixologic has now announced, however, that the release will be delayed.
Animation Reel by Richard Spriggs
Plenty of keyframe animation and many creatures can be seen in Richard Spriggs' animation reel.
Scratch 8.2 & Web
Grading directly in the camera live feed, Oculus Rift, and cloud-based one-click reviews - new tools in Scratch.
Ink, Slide, Germany
Presented in June, now available - the first Adobe hardware has now also arrived in the digital diaspora of Germany.
Sculpting in Virtual Reality
With VR Clay, a 3D sculpting application is coming to the number-one favourite toy, the Oculus Rift - in conjunction with the Razer Hydra motion controller. And when it works, it looks great.
Indigo Renderer 3.8
Glare Technologies has released Indigo Renderer version 3.8 and is offering the software at a special price until the end of December.
Project Expresso in Beta
The iPad app can be used to create whiteboard videos. Without a pen, intuitively, directly on the tablet.
animago Impressions in 360 Degrees
The animago AWARD & CONFERENCE 2014 in pictures. Insights in the truest sense “all around” the setup, trade fair and, of course, the animago award ceremony.
ProRes 4:4:4:4 XQ in Every Mac Application
Anyone who can no longer wait to use the new ProRes in every tool can use this workaround.
Mobile Animal Anatomy
Anyone who wants to look not only a horse in the face, but also into deeper layers, can get this Apple app.
Digital Cherry Trees
For anyone missing spring: Midge Sinnaeve is making five high-resolution tree models with various textures in FBX format available free of charge at CG Record.
CG Insects in Flight
Ramtin Ahmadi realised this impressive insect project in his spare time over the course of 3 to 4 months. The breakdown video shows how it was created.
Amplify Texture 2 for Unity
Amplify Creations has released Amplify Texture 2 as a development test version for the Unity engine. The full version is also expected to support the upcoming Unity 5 version.
Voting for “Best Still 2014” Extended
You can cast your vote on Facebook until September 20. Our jury selected the top 5 from all submissions.
Wild Hairdo in Photoshop CC
This tutorial teaches you how to make masking frizzy, tangled hair in Adobe Photoshop CC easier.
ZBrush Plug-in for CG Trees
ZTree is a plug-in for Pixologic ZBrush that is useful for working with ZSpheres because it provides several extra tools for them.
Free Environment Models
3D artist Ivan Arsic is making 14 high-resolution environment models available on his blog.
3D Blender Model of a Toad
The toad that is now available to download as a digital Blender 3D model really did once exist. Unfortunately, it fell victim to an accident involving a wife and a shoe.
Corona Materials for Free
Jeff Patton offers several Corona Renderer paint materials as a free download.
Concept Art from “Edge of Tomorrow”
MPC continues to diligently fill up its new concept-art site and has put images for "Edge of Tomorrow" online.
Mudbox 2015 Service Pack 1
Autodesk has also released Service Pack 1 for Mudbox. It is intended to fix many bugs and bring several improvements.
Corel Releases Painter 2015
Bob Ross would love it: with Painter, you can acquire your own digital painting studio. Corel has now released the 2015 version of the painting and illustration program.
ZBrush Summit 2014
The new version of ZBrush is just around the corner - and anyone who does not want to miss the live announcement on August 8 cane take part virtually in the Summit and the presentations.
Flame Painter 3 Announced
Escape Motions announces version 3 for April 29. Included: a Photoshop plug-in and the ability to handle PSD files.
Advertising Film Award 2014 – Call for Entries
Entries are now being accepted. The winners will already be ceremonially honored in Berlin on Saturday, March 22.
A Little Sculpting Is a Must
And quite simply, on the web, on the side. How? With SculptGL, the web sculpting application by Stéphane Ginier.
HD Test Image
We have already mentioned Michael Radeck's HD test image several times in tests—here it is to download.
PIXAR Masterclass in Berlin
Michal Makarevicz, Annie Award winner and directing animator at PIXAR Animation Studios, presents in-depth lectures, live demos, techniques and methods for mastering animation tasks.
Particles for Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D plug-in X-Particles has reached version 2. The new Core Engine is intended to remove the limit on the number of particles.
Games at the Munich Film Festival
This year, the Munich Film Festival focuses on the links between games and films and has assembled an extensive programme.
Flame Painter 2.0: News from the Colourist
Remember the "Flame Painter" test from DP 03:2012? There is now an update with full screen, normal brushes and layers.
Dogwaffle as a Free Download
Bob Ross would love it—the digital drawing program Dogwaffle 5 is currently available as a free download, and Howler 6 is also going for next to nothing.
ProSiebenSat.1 Games Enters the Mobile Gaming Market
And what do we get out of it? Well, if all goes well, more jobs as well as more games.
Partysaurus Rex—Online
Anyone suffering acute Pixar withdrawal since "Brave" can now watch the new short online in full.
Study 3D Design Online
Anyone who wants to acquire skills in 3D can study 3D design online at the OfG from November.
3ds Max: Templates for IES Lights
A 3D artist at Cloo Studio provided a 3ds Max plug-in that supplies templates for various IES lights.
animago 2012: Reader Voting for the “Best Still”
In the "Best Still" category, you can now decide which still from the five nominated works should receive the animago AWARD 2012.
And the Nominated Are …
The jury has met, and the nominees for the Animago have been decided. The best submissions are available to view - and you can also vote directly for the best still!
Adobe: Something New Again for Cloud Members
Creative Cloud members are now receiving new functions for Illustrator, and starting in September there will be something new for Dreamweaver.
All Good Things Come in Fours
The Foundry is not sparing with presentations either and shows in four showreels the films in which Nuke, Mari, Ocula, and Katana were used.
3ds Max: Saving Poses
Marcin Klejnowski developed a 3ds Max modifier that saves poses, making them easier for animators to call up again.
ZBrush 4R4 Is Here
Pixologic announced the new version ZBrush 4R4 – with extensive feature extensions focused on model topology and detail creation.