Indigo Render 3 SketchUp plugin

Glare Technologies launches the version 3.0 of Indigo Renderer compatible with version 6 and version 7 of SketchUp and creates great images directly from SketchUp by aggregating an industrial-strength renderer with a high quality exporter for SketchUp.

The new release comes up with serviceability refinements and improvements to the unbiased physical renderer’s engine along with real time scene editing, GPU acceleration, built-in animation, improved rendering performance, new network rendering support, render queue support and improved sampling, subdivision and bump mapping.

These new advancement will help users to create and render photorealistic images quickly and smoothly. Besides the users can tweak materials, camera position, camera f-stop and focal length, all in realtime, with both a ray-traced and OpenGL preview.

Both CUDA™ and OpenCL™ are supported to ensure GPU acceleration will work on both AMD and NVidia cards, on OS X and Windows.

One can create great images directly from SketchUp by aggregating an industrial-strength renderer with a high quality exporter for SketchUp. The SketchUp exporter is called ‘SkIndigo’. Download Indigo and install Indigo to the default location on your system. Then Download the version of SkIndigo for your system from http://www.indigorenderer.com/documentation/sketchup. SkIndigo appears with an installer for Windows and Mac. Both installers will look for a “Plugins” directory in all known locations for SketchUp. Restart SketchUp after installing SkIndigo and you will find “SkIndigo” to be accessible under the Plugins menu.

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Indigo Renderer 3.0.14 for Windows 32-bit
Indigo Renderer 3.0.14 for Windows 64-bit

PowerProduction Software unveils the availability of StoryBoard Artist Version 5

PowerProduction Software, a California based company that develops visualization software for film and video production over a decade, just ships StoryBoard Artist Version 5.

StoryBoard Artist Version 5 will be a high-end storyboarding solution by quickly creating nice digital storyboard for film maker & media professional.

The StoryBoard artist contains essential feature like timeline that puts storyboard frames in time with tracks of audio for impressive presentations. Now the version 5 comes up with automatic storyboard generation and sketch-style presentations.

StoryBoard Artist Version 5 includes a bunch of advance features which are mentioned below :-

New Features:

Extended File Import Options including 3D Google SketchUp files.

New Built-In Artwork letting in more Character, Prop, and Location options.

Object Effects facilitate artists for creating customizable built-in artwork.

Sketch Mode for printing, working, and presenting.

QuickShots Technology for automatic storyboard creation. QuickShots uses a catalog of shot types that the artist can match with characters and locations.

StoryBoard Artist Version 5 can be achieved through the PowerProduction Software worldwide reseller channel and direct from the PowerProduction Software web site at www.powerproduction.com for an MSRP of $799.99 USD.

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