The latest Digital Art Live magazine is now available as issue 69. Free, but small donations are now encouraged via Gumroad to help keep it going. This month’s theme for the midsummer issue is “The Misty Isles”, loosely based around mythic and mystical ideas of our own British Isles.
In related ‘British landscape’ news, which sadly came just too late for inclusion in Digital Art Live #69, Vue’s grand English oak forest official pack is now available…
“This PlantCatalog update adds everything you need to create a full English oak forest, including trees, mushrooms, ferns, dead undergrowth and more.”
Brilliant, just add Robin Hood. Also in the pack are native lichen, moss, and even ‘pollarded’ willows (they grow alongside English rivers and large streams, and are harvested for their withies)…
Accessed for Vue via E-on’s standalone sister-software PlantCatalog. The PlantCatalog plants… “can be used both within [the subscription] VUE as procedural files and within any other 3D application as baked polygon meshes, with or without wind animation.”
Also interesting is that with this update to the software, all… “existing PlantCatalog species files are now up to 60% smaller than before.” Thus saving hard-drive space.