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Allegorithmic Future releases of both
Painter and Designer will
begins number- be named after the current
year rather than version
less releases

Updates for Substance Painter and
Designer mark the introduction of a
more regular release cycle

now stripped of version numbers, both releases are
available under the 2017.1 title. substance Painter
gains the integration of substance source into the ui
for artists to explore the online library while working
on projects. Also, 300 new customisable Alphas
and procedural patterns are available from the shelf.
Glow, drop shadow, Colour Balance and Correction
ilters have been added too. For substance designer,
‘phase one’ of a Baking revamp has initiated. Baking
times are reduced and to address speed, high-poly
meshes are now loaded only once and stored in Fabio Rossi
memory until the baker is closed.

FaceBuilder Villard Inc. begins trading

beta out now New company caters for a broad
range of sculpting requirements
including creature production
KeenTools launches innovative and 3D-printed igures
solution for building human head
models using photos in Nuke recent startup Villard inc., based in tokyo,
Japan, caters for the market in bespoke,
FaceBuilder is a new node in the KeenTools high-quality digital sculptures. “we offer
plugins suite for fast and simple head creation various types of sculpting, including 3d-printed
from 2D images. CEO Roman Belov explains: ”In igures, games, ilms and more,” says founder
ive minutes, given ive photos, you can build a and CeO Keita Okada. “we are planning to
perfectly itted model of a face, with proper create more dark fantasy-themed concepts and
topology and UVs. You just set and drag points sculptures in the future. Professionals with an
on the model to the corresponding points on the appreciation for sculpting, who love creature
face, and the algorithm automatically deforms design, are always welcome to work in
the model to it the footage. To improve the development with us.” with a freelance artist
accuracy you may repeat the process from background, Okada has won several awards,
other angles of view.” including ZBrushCentral top row and has also
provided creature modelling for Bloodborne. Lion is a concept model created by Keita Okada
Software shorts Bringing you the lowdown on product updates and launches

Modo 11.1 V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max RenderMan 21.5
the new bi-directional live bridge Hybrid rendering is introduced to Highlights include new artistic
connects Modo 11.1 and ue4, circumvent GPu rAM limitations. controls for creating phenomenal
enabling games artists to seamlessly V-ray scenes can be rendered with hair and fur, and innovations in
update entire scenes or elements including GPus, CPus or both, and nvidia nVLink supports path-traced subsurface scattering to produce
geometry, uVs, Materials and Lights using one sharing GPu memory across compatible GPus. amazing photorealistic skin and other soft
computer or multiple networked together. Modo’s CryptoMatte automatically generates id Mattes materials. Pixar’s next ilm, Coco, drove many 21.5
modelling, uV mapping and baking toolsets have and VrayLightselect gains Gi, relection/ features and optimisations, such as enabling
also received enhancements. refraction render element outputs. scenes to allow tens of thousands of active lights.

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