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Hair Production for Game Characters at CGMA

Dominique Gagné took the CGMA class Hair Creation for Games and did a breakdown of the character created during it with the help of ZBrush, Maya, XGen, and Marvelous Designer. Introduction Hi, my name is Dominique Gagné, I am from Montréal, and I am a 3D character artist at Behaviour Interactive. I have been working on the… Continue Reading Hair Production for Game Characters at CGMA

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Universal Scene Description: open source at Autodesk

Autodesk has released a recording from SIGGRAPH 2019 in which they discuss the how the company is working with leading animation studios to “ensure a consistent yet modifiable way to use USD within Maya, while remaining fully open-source and used as a baseline going forward”. Find out more on Autodesk’s website.

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Substance for Maya 2.0.1 released

Adobe has announced the updated of its Substance plugin for Maya. Version 2.0.1  has been extensively rewritten and now supports the output of textures with resolutions up to 8K for the GPU engine and 4K for the CPU engine. Caching the output to disk has been improved with options to set the type to either LDR or HDR… Continue Reading Substance for Maya 2.0.1 released

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Realistic 3D characters in Maya

Autodesk has released a new set of tutorials for Maya in which 5 experts demonstrate their techniques for creating 3D characters. Watch the playlist on YouTube.

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Open Beta of finalRender for Maya

Cebas Visual Technology has launched an open beta of finalRender for Maya. Let’s have a look at the tool. The toolkit introduces a new solution called BuildingBlocks which is basically a new approach to physically based shader creation in Maya, based on the raytracing core of finalRender for Maya. “Building Blocks breaks down shaders to their very… Continue Reading Open Beta of finalRender for Maya

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How to Design 3D Models for Medieval game in Autodesk Maya

Through these sessions, the viewer is going to learn how to properly use advanced modeling techniques needed for creating extra details to models( Modeling part ), how to set a UV mapping for texturing, how to texture models within Substance painter and create visually stunning models overall. Throughout the tutorial, the author shows a process… Continue Reading How to Design 3D Models for Medieval game in Autodesk Maya

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15 Mighty Maya Tutorials To Try Today

Fire up your copy of Autodesk’s 3D animation software and try out one of these high-quality Maya tutorials. Autodesk Maya is one of the go-to packages for 3D artists. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best Maya tutorials to help you make the most of this powerful tool. With its advanced tools and high-end… Continue Reading 15 Mighty Maya Tutorials To Try Today

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6 tools to render your SolidWorks project

The rendering software may have features including animation tools which can integrate with animation programs to bring life to images. These can be used for movies, games, architecture and other uses. There are numerous SolidWorks rendering programs available but we have compiled the very best below in terms of functionality.   3Ds max 3Ds max… Continue Reading 6 tools to render your SolidWorks project

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What Are 3D Models?

A 3D model is a representation of any three-dimensional object using computer graphics software. A 3D Model can be displayed virtually as a 2D image through a process called 3D rendering or used in a 3D computer simulation, animation, or visualization. Creating a 3D model is often a time consuming and an expensive process. Therefore,… Continue Reading What Are 3D Models?

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