Spotted in the News – Page 42 – MyClone Poser and Daz Studio blog

Product Manager wanted for Poser

Posted on January 31, 2015 by jonahjameson

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The Poser developer team are looking for a Product Manager.

Comic Life 3 – for Windows desktop

Posted on January 17, 2015 by jonahjameson

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A new version 3 of Comic Life software has been released, and it’s a desktop Windows version. Comic Life aids you in layout out and lettering a comic book page. Sure you can do this with Photoshop, but it’s much more fiddly and will probably take most people about twice as long. You can also do it with Manga Studio, but that’s software for professional comics artists and there’s a bigger cost and a learning curve. So it’s good to see Comic Life back in the game and on Windows desktop again with a fresh version that works on Windows 8.x.

Something Brewing…

Posted on January 12, 2015 by jonahjameson

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Cartoon Brew Seeks An Associate Editor…

“the animation industry’s most visible news source” seeks “a key member in the website’s development, someone who understands both the practice and business of animation inside-out”.

Cool nomads

Posted on December 28, 2014 by jonahjameson

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Giant, flocking and interlocking exploration-habitat vehicles. For Antarctica. Presumably they’d basically drive themselves, like the Google Car. A cool concept, visualised in 3D by Henry McKenzie and Artur Kupriichuk.

iClone 6 Pro released

Posted on December 23, 2014 by jonahjameson

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iClone 6 Pro is now available via Reallusion (not the DAZ Store, yet). The cheaper Standard version is due in Jan 2015. I see a $109 price for the new Pro 6 version, when I’m logged in to my iClone dashboard.

A 3D Christmas Party

Posted on December 12, 2014 by jonahjameson

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3D Art Live, online Xmas Party!

Reality 4 released

Posted on December 1, 2014 by jonahjameson

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The new Reality 4 is now available in both the DAZ Studio Edition and the Poser Edition. Reality is the high-end LuxRender rendering plugin, and comes in 32 or 64 bit format.

Mastering Magnets in Poser

Posted on December 1, 2014 by jonahjameson

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Webinars coming soon at 3D Art Live: Mastering Magnets in Poser and a zBrush Clinic.

New Daz Studio 4.7 – out now

Posted on November 27, 2014 by jonahjameson

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The newest Daz Studio Pro 4.7 is out now.

There seem to be some quite interesting and possibly important new features, which include among others…

* UI interface and navigation streamlining

* Interactive Progressive Rendering (IPR)… “see near real-time camera, light and material modifications”. Even moderately accurate WYSIWYG previews of the final render lighting would be a 1000% improvement on the old versions.

* “Back to Base”… an easy way to safely strip out all the modifications you made to a base character/figure.

* Render Settings Pane overhaul… an improved layout for this important panel

* Extended Texture Format Support… “Added support for using .EXR, .HDR, .PSD, and various others directly as textures.”

* Render Engine Update… “3Delight render engine to 11.0.105”. But this just seems to be a bugfix advance. The last important speed change was back in August with 11.0.101, which added… “Ray-traced subsurface scattering now uses much less memory and is 5% to 7% faster”.

Still free (for now), and still including…

Genesis Starter Essentials
Genesis 2 Starter Essentials
FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
Texture Atlas for DAZ Studio
GoZ for DAZ Studio (ZBrush connector)
3D Bridge for Photoshop
Subsurface Shader Base
Content Creator Toolkit

Though those installing for the first time will find the above extras are separate downloads.

DeviantArt

Posted on November 11, 2014 by jonahjameson

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DeviantArt is getting very tiresome. For weeks now it’s been either unreachable, or loads slightly and then stalls. The problem happens in multiple browsers, and so seems to be a major problem with the servers…

Poser Pro 2014 is now half-price

Posted on November 11, 2014 by jonahjameson

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Poser Pro 2014 is now half-price at Smith Micro, until 23rd November 2014. Upgrades are also heavily discounted.

DAZ Store gets a big makeover

Posted on November 8, 2014 by jonahjameson

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The DAZ Store just got a tablet-tastic makeover. I wasn’t sure about the new design at first, but after a few minutes I saw how much more logical it is. It also works well on a big desktop monitor. The only problem is that the Freebies page isn’t on one of the static menus. Freebies is actually still there, you just need to bookmark the page if you visit it regularly. And, what’s more, it now actually has genuine freebies on it — as it used to!

New 3D OBJs from the British Museum

Posted on November 4, 2014 by jonahjameson

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The British Museum has just released a nice set of 3D scanned objects from antiquity, as 3D models in .obj, and with Creative Commons Attribution licences. You have to login with Google or Facebook in order to download.