Free 3D Software and 3D Model Providers
"The DAZ FREE 3D Software promotion is three award-winning 3D software products now available for the first time ever for free."
(DAZ Productions, Inc.)
Fig. 2&3 IT'S ART Magazine
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
iPad Peek: virtual device
"iPad Peek is a nifty tool that lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad. Click on the top border to switch from landscape to portrait mode. The virtual keyboard and the buttons on the iPad browser are just for show, but the reload button works.
Previewing a website in iPad Peek doesn’t offer the “real” iPad experience, however; for example, Flash works (and it shouldn’t). To get closer to the real deal, you should disable the Flash plugin in your browser and change the user agent string to that of the Apple iPad."
(Stan Schroeder 05 April 2010, Mashable)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
VFX Masterpiece: The Third & The Seventh
"I use V-Ray. Illumination has fascinated me since as long as I can remember: Years ago, it was quite difficult to simulate global ilumination by traditional techniques. So after trying several GI engines, I found V-Ray to be the best solution by far to suit all my needs in these terms."
(Jorge Seva alias 'Alex Roman')
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
Four Interrupted Carparks Video/Digital insertions, Madrid, 2009
"Four carparks in Madrid are interrupted with a geometric primitive. Modeling, compositing, rendering and editing performed with Blender for Linux."
(Julian Oliver)
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Simon PerkinsSHARE
Image Metrics: hyperrealistic CG facial animation
"When [Image Metrics] first started working on Emily, our goal was to create an exact replica of the real actress Emily O'Brien. Why? Because there was no other way to determine how close we had come to reality if we did not replicate a 'real' person. Judging from the reaction of people at SIGGRAPH 2008, and the hundreds of media hits, we've come pretty close to the mark.
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Image Metrics began planning the Emily project in March 2008. After Image Metrics developed a script for the animation, the ICT Graphics Lab scanned O’Brien to develop the template for her CG double. A team of eight artists working part-time on the internal project then built a custom rig for the Emily character, captured O’Brien’s performance with video and applied it to the CG character with its proprietary facial animation solution. Once the capture and rigging processes were finalized, the 90-second animation took just one week to complete."
(Image Metrics)
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