CG artists can get numerous Plant Species through Plant Factory Nursery launched by Cornucopia3D

Cornucopia3D, a part  & parcel of e-on software and the most recognized online VUE community designed for CG artists just declared the availability of the Plant Factory Nursery, the one stop online shop for 3D Vegetation.

Presently the Plant Factory Nursery consists of more than 100 plant species, and it is developing quickly.

Lots of the Plant Factory content are completely animated (wind and breeze), and contains automatic age and health settings.

The users can get direct access to all Plant Factory content that Cornucopia3D hosts, free or paid for, from: tpf.cornucopia3d.com

Existing TPF well-suited products involve the complete Plant Factory product lines, and all VUE 11 and VUE 2014 products (well matched with other e-on software applications).

The Users of other leading 3D modeling programs like 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Modo etc can get advantages from TPF content by applying Plant Factory Converter, an user-friendly and cost effective application to transform TPF content to standard 3D formats.

For getting more updates, visit at www.cornucopia3d.com

Brief overview of Plant Factory: Plant Factory is a ground-breaking 3D plant formation technology, catering to the CG, SFX, Architecture and Gaming communities. It provides custom-centric solutions for all audiences.

Plant Factory provides the following benefits to the users:-

• Produce various types of vegetation, from plain grass to highly decorated hero trees
• Generate vegetation by painting it, accumulating simple building blocks, or entirely graphing all plant properties
• Create procedural geometry and materials of unrestricted detail
• Animate all plant characteristics with specific wind and breeze algorithms
• Export 3D vegetation to any 3D application like standard .OBJ, .3DS or animated .FBX
• Render stills and animations for compositing jobs or to be applied as billboards
• Extend their plant library via a committed 3D plant model library

For getting more information, go through www.plantfactory-tech.com

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Autodesk Reveals 2015 Versions of Its 3D Animation Tools

Autodesk unveiled 2015 release of its major 3D animation tools that include 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder, Softimage, Maya, and Maya LT. Maya LT, which is the newest addition to the lineup is a cost-effective 3D animation and modeling tool for professional indie game makers. Maya LT 2015:

• Offers cloud integration through the Maya LT interface
• Unfold 3D for creation of UV maps from 3D models
• Substance material integration for applying materials generated in the Allegorithmic Substance Designer procedural texture creation tool to 3D models

Autodesk also declared the accessibility of the 2015 Entertainment Creation Suite for 3D animation and visual effects. 3ds Max, Maya, Entertainment Creation Suites, and Maya LT can be obtained in two configurations: as a perpetual license or desktop subscription.

With innovative new tools like Bifrost, redesigned core parts of the applications focusing on performance and user friendly features, the 2015 releases simplifies complex tasks and allows artists to use their creative power.

The new features in 3ds Max 2015 are mentioned below:

• ShaderFX
• Point cloud dataset support for reality-capture workflows
• New viewport performance optimizations
• A redesigned scene explorer so artists can manage large scenes
• ActiveShade support for the Nvidia Mental Ray renderer
• New Python scripting support

Mudbox 2015 includes streamlined mesh refinement for retopologizing and new Sculpt Layer and Paint Layer groups for organizing and identifying specific layers in complex scenes. Softimage 2015 is the last release of Softimage and helps in:

• Alembic caching
• Allowing enhancements to the ICE platform
• Animatable weight maps in Syflex cloth

MotionBuilder 2015 highlights on motion-capture workflow that includes:

• A new plug-in for Microsoft Kinect to capture body movements.
• Animatable Depth of Field and Follow Focus camera options that supports in re-creating real-world cinematography elements.
• A library with 100 commonly required character animations in FBXformat.

Maya 2015 has the Bifrost procedural effects platform that supports an artist-friendly workflow for complex simulation and rendering tasks and is applied to:

• Near-photorealistic liquids
• XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator for easily creating highly detailed geometry, like hair, fur, and foliage
• Geodesic Voxel Binding for skinning characters
• ShaderFX, a new node-based visual interface for shader programming
• Support for Pixar’s OpenSubdiv libraries
• Enhanced polygon modeling tools
• Expanded UV options

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Model the Model Initiative – an exclusive sketchup challenge

The Model the Model Initiative is set off for employing SketchUp modelers like research participants who have to opt for a building, site, or object in Google Earth that is presently represented as a photogrammetry mesh model and to digitally create the low accuracy representation by hand as it were a genuine building, then to distribute the digital file to Trimble 3D Warehouse providing the tag "ModeltheModel".

This program is aimed at discovering how this modeling procedure might be dissimilar or identical to the development of modeling real buildings or sites, and what knowledge can be gathered from modeling an algorithmically produced model "by hand."

The effort is a summation of friendly SketchUp challenge, research work out, digital documentation, and an assessment of Google's verdict to eliminate all of the user–generated models from Google Earth step by step.

If any sketchup professionals like to contribute to the project, they can contact withianbesler@gmail.com.

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Participate in the BEST Kitchen Design Contest and showcase your woodworking project

Woodworking Network is going to organize an exclusive content on BEST Kitchen Design. The Timber Products Company will sponsor the competition. By participating in this content, the kitchen designers will be able to present their premier kitchen handiwork from the previous 14 months.

In order to take part, everybody has to provide a photo and some of the project details. The winning project will receive a $500 Visa gift card plus a custom-made award.

For submitting an entry, visit the registration page for rules and entry requirements and to present your project. Before sending any entries, it should be kept in mind that all entries must contain wood- or wood product-based cabinets. All entries must reach within Feb. 12, 2014 and March 1, 2014.

Participate today and submit your project in the BEST Kitchen Design Contest.

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Tuhin maity

SketchUp User

www.sketchup4architect.com

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SketchUp Talk: A New SketchUp Forum in Town

Whenever anyone starts to do any work, he needs a proper guidance. And in these days the online forums are the places where everyone can get the right direction to reach their destinations. The online forum is the most happening place in recent time where people get along with like minded people, share their ideas and viewpoint, get suggestions and can build back links. SketchUp ur Space brings to you a similar place for all the SketchUp lover of this world and the place is called SketchUp Talk.

It is a new forum for SketchUp, the 3D designing tool from the house of Google. The visitors can be a part of this SketchUp Forum by following up some simple steps. After completing the registration, the users can start posting, viewing other’s post and suggesting the solution of the other’s problem. There are lots of moderators who are the proficient in this field to guide the users. The SketchUp Talk is the right place for all the SketchUp users to start their journey as a 3D artist.

There are twelve different SketchUp threads in the forum. They are:

v     Discussion Board of SketchUp

v     Showcase your SketchUp Work

v     Plug-ins and Components

v     SketchUp in Different Genre

v     SketchUp Developer’s Place

v     Add Ons of SketchUp

v     SketchUp Challenge

v     News and Happening

v     Make a Wish for SketchUp

v     SketchUp Tutorials

v     SketchUp Tips and Tricks

v     SketchUp Bugs

 In these threads you get guidance, information, news and many more things. You can learn many tricks from the Tutorials posted here. In the thread SketchUp in Different Genre you can know that how SketchUp has been used in different categories like architecture, woodworking and many others. Many interesting features are also there. In the thread Showcase Your SketchUp Work, users can post their SketchUp work to show their skill. SketchUp Talk also arranges a monthly challenge of SketchUp work under the title SketchUp Challenge.

So don’t waste your time. Go and register your name in SketchUp Talk to get the unique username here: http://forum.sketchup4architect.com

SketchUp ur Space: SketchUp Competition

Competition is a very important thing in life. Without competition no one can get the finest shape of his or her creativity. Competition is like a booster to pump up the spirit. Good performance in any competition gives the competitors a good platform and recognition of work. That’s why Sketchup ur Space is organizing a grand competition to boost up the new talents of the SketchUp industry. Your work will display on the magazine page. The winner will get an original license of V-Ray. Apart from this, he will be featured on SketchupArtists and Sketchup ur Space.

Sketchup ur Space: SketchUp Competition

This is a grand opportunity for every SketchUp artist to get the recognition of own work. Nomer Adona and James Hanningan will judge the entries of the competition. Every participant can send maximum three entries in this competition. Every entry can has three screen shots of the processing. The competition begins on 2nd August and will close on 31st August. All the competitors are requested to read thoroughly the Rules and Regulation of the Competition. The theme of the competition is ‘Sketchup ur Space’ that means you have to SketchUp your space.

Sketchup ur Space is providing a great platform for the new SketchUp artists. They are featuring them, showcasing their works and sharing their experience on SketchUp. This one of a kind SketchUp magazine helps the 3D modelers of all over the world to get various types of resources, tips, tutorial, news of SketchUp. For more current information follow the Facebook page of Sketchup ur Space. The editor Debarati Nath is updating the page with frequent updates of the competition