[Best war movie ever]

One million one hundred seventy nine thousand can't be wrong.

 

 

[Make normal map using sculpt tools?]

I wish there was a video of you doing this.

https://obsproject.com/

Free, and does webcasts and records your screen (or parts thereof) while you work. It does audio too.

 

 

 

 

[A detailed review of MS Flight Sim 2020]

October 10  Episode 1 reveal; THE WORLD

 

[Radeon ProRender Free - AMD’s OpenCL based, PBR renderer]

 

[Pascal Beekmans is the most amazing master of Houdini after only using it for one year]

Aha, the plot thickens; so this is where he's getting a lot of his stuff from, like that shortest path algorithm...

 

https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/game-development-toolset-overview/

https://github.com/sideeffects/GameDevelopmentToolset

https://plugins.cgrecord.net/2018/03/download-physics-painter-for-houdini.html

If Pascal can learn Houdini to that level in one year that means only one thing; time to go into hyperdrive and step up our game.

https://www.sidefx.com/learn/game-tools/

 

 

[Pascal Beekmans is the most amazing master of Houdini after only using it for one year]

Also with all the talk of various render engines around here from Redshift to Radeon Pro Render to Cycles etc etc etc. some on this You Tube thread think Clarisse + Houdini is the ideal combo and I have to say when dealing with vast landscapes and intricate procedural models it does make a lot of sense. Note that the video talks of Terragen too but in fact all the terrain generation and rock forms are Houdini procedural models. 

https://www.behance.net/paqwak

Pascal Beeckmans
Gameloft Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

be.net/paqwak

 

This guy's work just blows me away.

 

 

 

[Photorealism in 3d coat render room]

Cycles vs free Octane for Blender 2.8

 

https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72241

 

It's getting really crazy now. I know Mike Pan.  He's one of the devs for Cycles. He holds Blender meetups in Vancouver once a month. I was at one and mentioned the free Renderman for Blender. His eyes flashed and he said that Cycles was going to be better. 

 

I'm beginning to understand what he was saying.

 

 

[Hello Community, Sharing Some of my Recent 3D Architecture Work Here]

It would be nice if you included some screen shots of your working process. These were done in 3d Coat or some other programs as well?

[Sergey Grechanyuk artwork]

Sergey says he got to this point by studying the techniques of  Anthony Eftekhari

and Dylan Cole

https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/instructors/dylan-cole

[A detailed review of MS Flight Sim 2020]

This guy gets into the technology deeper than the rest. No modeling whatsoever.  "It would be impossible for us to model the entire world". But the entire world is in this sim in detailed 3D.

 

Movement of air masses.

[Photorealistic Eye Generator]

https://www.blendermarket.com/products/photorealistic-eye-generator-

 

 

 

Infinite eyes

This is a generator of procedural eyes (mathematically generated) based on cycles nodes for Blender, this is able to generate both the part of the iris and the sclera. The part of the iris besides the bump map also works as a displacement map, to get more realistic results. With this product you will be able to generate infinite photorealistic quality eyes.

 

 

[A detailed review of MS Flight Sim 2020]

Forget Death Stranding, forget Black Shark 2...I'm getting this..

 

 

[A detailed review of MS Flight Sim 2020]

Azure AI + satellite imagery  = 3D graphics of amazing realism. 

No need for modelers, at all.

 

But it's not RTX at all.

[A detailed review of MS Flight Sim 2020]

This guy got invited to MS headquarters in Seattle to an official presentation of its alpha, just this last September.  Flight sims are getting pretty awesome these days with DCS and Lockheed PrePar3D but even taking that into consideration the stuff he reviews in MS FS 2020 is really impressive and as a wannabe computer artist, extremely humbling.

 

 

[LuxRender in Blender]

And that's free now? Incredible.  We are rapidly entering an era of amazing intellectual and aesthetic riches.

[LuxRender in Blender]

Is that optically correct caustics or is that the faked variety? I've been reading about this and I can never make out which render engine or which settings produce one or the other. That picture you posted does look impressive. I've heard VRay is powerful but not physically correct overall in it's lighting effects for example.

How long will Lux  Core be free for I wonder?  Its results look pretty impressive on its gallery page.

[Russian Steam Loco]

That undercarriage looks really good.

[Blender 2.81 Alpha is out, stable release in November]

While we're on the topic of the competition, let's see what Zbrush is up to in their development at last 2019 Zbrush summit..

 

Skip the BS and go to the 10 minute mark.

[Blender 2.81 Alpha is out, stable release in November]

"Elastic Deform" in Blender's sculpt room. That looks very cool  (8:30 mark). Also that pose tool

[Blender 2.81 Alpha is out, stable release in November]

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.81

http://www.cgchannel.com/2019/10/check-out-the-new-features-in-blender-2-81/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cgchannel%2FnHpU+(CG+Channel+-+Entertainment+Production+Art)

 

https://builder.blender.org/download/

 

 

 

 

 

[Sculpting a ornate picture frame suggestions?]

 

[Ornate chest of drawers.]

On 4/10/2016 at 8:47 PM, Gary Dave said:

Cheers Tony, bit of a more interesting update this time, as it's nearly finished.

 

 

Obviously need to add the rest of the handles, and my wood PBR material needs a lot of tweaking, buuuut I'm liking where it's headed, just a shame it's 1:45am on a Monday and I've got work to wake up for in a few hours.

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Radeon ProRender Free - AMD’s OpenCL based, PBR renderer]

 

Yeah it's grainy, but it's right out of the box and instantaneous.

[3D-Coat: Please, unifies the workflow by fusing the Rooms - Important step for 3D-Coat]

19 minutes ago, Carlosan said:

I may be an idiot but that leaves me utterly mystified. He's in Clay, he's putting down some kind of curve then suddenly there's a central green line from which the profile will be rotated, there's some drop down menu and we're in Surface mode.  There's no explanatory voice over...

 

[Radeon ProRender Free - AMD’s OpenCL based, PBR renderer]

4 hours ago, jima said:

So, is there a plugin for this to 3dc? Or standalone version? If not, what might be the simplest workflow to get 3dc assets rendered with this tool?

Probably Blender though there's a very nice plug in for Maya too. It's interface and ability to use the material library is on first glance much easier and more intuitive than Blender's but I haven't really explored that aspect of Blender yet.

This is just the viewport real time render, not a final render btw.

I haven't been able to find any worthwhile tutorials for it in Blender so far. If anyone has some please post them. It would be appreciated.

OK so it took me three or four minutes but I got it working in Blender.