SketchUp Halloween Challenge 2011

Its Halloween week, Google SketchUp celebrates Halloween Challenge 2011 and on this occasion Google boulder office seems in a tizzy about their costumes.

This year they are hosting a SketchUp Halloween challenge for everyone looking for something to do in their spare time. The team has categorized in two parts. Use SketchUp to model either a

Jack-‘o-lantern

Haunted house or both

How to submit an entry

1. Your model need to be uploaded to 3D warehouse & should be publicly downloadable.
2. Must upload 2-10 images of your model to public photo sharing Picasaweb.
3. Need to fill up the Challenge submission form with the links of both your model on 3D warehouse & your public online image album.
4. Multiple entries will be valid but fill out a separate entry form for each entry.

 Judging

28^th Oct, Friday, a team of SketchUp will go for the review of all entries, looking for mostly images and model will be submitted. Then they gonna pick top three entries in each category.   

Rendering rules

Anyone can include photo rendered images of your models with the images you submit and one unrendered image is necessary.

Last Date

11:59 PM PST on 27^th Oct 2011

Awards     

For such kind competition they have made it a bit simple instead of some big prize, so they’ll be publishing the favorite entries on their official blog on 31^st Oct and the best models from each category will be featured in the November edition of SketchUpdate newsletter.  

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Chaos Group announce V-ray for Softimage public Beta testing program

The V-Ray for Softimage public Beta Testing program is announced by Chaos Group. It is the fifth product in a row from the Group. The new product will support all the major Softimage features like animated parameters, strong render tree support etc.

To get and access to the Beta program you need to register and fill the form with your contact information at the Chaos Group website. After that you will receive an email from the support team informing that you can download the V-Ray for Softimage public Beta.  

Anyone who is interested to join the V-Ray for Softimage public Beta needs to do few steps.

• All Beta testers are encouraged to give feedback with their question submission. 
• The program has its own forum on the Chaos Group official website, so everyone who is eligible and become the part of the program needs to share their opinion and exchange information with the other people from the industry. 
• You can send your comment to vraysoftimage@chaosgroup.com 

During the V-Ray for Softimage public Beta program Chaos Group will aim to provide additional incentive to the active & devoted testers.

V-Ray supported features:-
Shading
Light
Camera
Render Output
Effect Scene Translator

Softimage supported features:-
ICE support
Animated Parameters
Strong render tree support
Weightmaps
V-Ray Sun and Sky

Supported Platforms are:-
Softimage 7.0
Softimage 7.5        
Softimage 2010        
Softimage 2011        
Softimage 2011 SAP        
Softimage 2012        
Softimage 2012 SAP
(Note:- 64 bit supported on all platform)        

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