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I swear these guys are magicians, impressive!!!

Very cool proof of concept using machine learning. Further in the video are some of the best deformations I've ever seen in an animated biped. Crazy stuff!

I'm loving all this competition, way to go AMD for pushing Intel to go beyond an i7 speed bump!

I'm sure these Wacom display tablets will be awesome however, the prices are too high for mere mortals like myself. I picked up this guy at the start of the summer for $459.00 and couldn't be happier, it's the Ugee 15.6 Inches HK1560 IPS Display Graphics Monitor Drawing Pen Tablet https://www.amazon.com/Ugee-HK1560-Resolution-DisplayPort-Rechargeable/dp/B01M5HGRZM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1503877679&sr=8-3&keywords=ugee+16+display+tablet Inexpensive, responsive, low parallax.. For the driver install, once I purged my system of all wacom software (including the wintab drivers), it was smooth sailing. Again, would love to own a Wacom but just cant justify paying almost 4x the price.

Seems that the people at Nevercenter decided to revive Silo 3D's development.. They just released 2.5. New features coming also apparently. http://cgpress.org/archives/silo-2-5-released-marking-a-return-to-active-development.html Release notes: http://nevercenter.com/silo/release_notes/

I'm just happy AMD is still in the race or Intel would jack up their prices sky high.. And also.. The new AMD offerings do look pretty damn good

When it comes to 3D software, I have the attention span of a squirrel... It's so tough to stick with Max or Maya, AD's lack of vision is disappointing, <- and the price. I have not upgraded my perpetual licenses since they went rental only as there are better options (for me) out there. These days I tend to gravitate around Houdini Indie, Blender and Modo Indie. ZBrush and 3DCoat for sculpting. 3DCoat and Substance for texturing.

Price is going to be the driver for me, if I can get an equivalent configuration on Windows for less than half the price then it doesnt make sense to go Mac. Personally I think Apple is going about this the wrong way, they should make Macs much more affordable and flood the market and capture more market shares.. I think people want alternatives to Windows for their day to day work machines.

If you have time to spare, watch this presentation on the upcoming 4.16 features.. I was blown away by the amount that made it in and quality of the tools.

In the second video screenshot, look at the photographer's hand in the background, she must me a Zombie!!! Joking aside, if you would tell me to pick one and it's mine for free, I could go for any of the 3 options mentioned.

Amazing stuff. I'll try both approaches on my next shots.

My new favorite Houdini keys x, c, v

Very cool! Reminds me of a Escher drawing but animated.

In case you missed it, here's the link for the presentation (Might be the same one as above, not sure but just in case). The live event broadcast was choppy but they actually had in-house recording as well, that's the link I'm posting. Definitely worth the watch. Amazing new features.. The new boolean system, new rigging (biharmonic), infinite oceans, the new terrain tools.. All realtime in the viewport with opencL acceleration...etc. Cool stuff!

Awesome video! Cant wait for the full release announcement on Monday.

When you install the trial, look at the top right corner of the app once installed, you have the option to activate it. Hit that and then select the free hobbyist option. Should be good to go.

Well what a surprise, you can grab Stingray and use it for free until you actually make $$ with it.. I was evaluating Cryengine (Lumberyard) and noticed this in a forum thread. Anyways, with Unity, Unreal, Lumberyard and now Stingray.. It's never been a better time for indie devs. http://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview

I watched the video you linked, oh man.. The preview features looks really good.

Mark your calendars, Houdini 16 launch event, Feb 6. Cant wait!

Great tut! Thanks for sharing.

Good question, I only have experience with VMWare vsphere / HyperV in a corporate environment ( Think 100's of VMs, that's our setup).. I've not use QEMU personally.

All depends what you need it to do.. For a pure server environment, these could be really awesome, I'm already thinking of my next VSphere / HyperV environment running these suckers.. You can spin a lot of VMs with that many cores. For the tech geek in me, these sound awesome. On the 3D end of things, apps that rely mostly on CPU power might get a serious boost from these, ZBrush anyone? For rendering, there are a lot of render engines that are not yet on the GPU.. All in all, I think there's a healthy market for these. <- Again, depends on what you need it to do.

The dial is insane.. I can just imagine configuring it with my most used functions.. Brush Size, Brush Style, Rotate View, Zoom.. List goes on.. Both hands never leaves the screen.

Really impressed by the specs\features and form factor. Cant wait to see the stylus in action once released. Price is way out of my range though.

Done! Great course with a solid workflow. Definitely one of the better 3DC courses out there, Highly recommended.