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FiberMesh to Splines - Maya + 3DS Max Plugin

FiberMesh to Splines for Maya by obliviboy

Make ZBrush’s FiberMesh usable in Maya
The small FiberMesh to Splines for Maya application will convert the exported FiberMesh from ZBrush to splines.
The splines can be used to create and render Maya hair either with Maya’s default hair or using a hair plugin...
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Autodesk Maya 2012 Service Pack 2 - Released

Autodesk Maya 2012 Service Pack 2 - Released
Autodesk Maya 2012 Service Pack 2 includes several important fixes..
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Service Pack 2 - What’s Fixed

- Add editable location field in the File Browser
- Maya doesn't always switch between single/multi pane views
- Merge vertices pops users out of translate mode
- Graph Editor updating while hidden
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Exocortex - Momentum 3.2 Final Release - Windows + Linux

Exocortex Momentum 3.0 Release Trailer by Helge Mathee

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Momentum 3.2

Here is the final release of Momentum 3.2 with one additional change
from Helge to address the Softbody issue...

This release is different from the one released late Friday as this
release has the Softbody fix in it and also Linux support.
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Thinkbox Software XMesh - Released

XMesh
XMesh is Thinkbox Software's production-proven Geometry Caching system.

What Is XMesh?
XMesh is a set of tools for caching animated scene geometry to an external file sequence
and for loading this data later for rendering.
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What Is XMesh MX?
XMesh MX is the 3ds Max implementation of the XMesh toolset. It consists of a commercial Saver plugin
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BarnOwl by Yu Fujii

Yu Fujii Profile

Yu Fujii was born in Tokyo, Japn.
Yu attended Chuo University. studying mechanical engineering.

Over the past 9 years Yu has worked as a CG artist in commercial,
music video and Broadcast design as well as cultivating personal,artistic projects.
His work has been shown at many international festivals and publications
including ResFest, onedotzero, shots, siggraph Asia.
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MentalCore version 1.1 Released

MentalCore Overview by corecgsupport

MentalCore for Maya promotional video.
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MentalCore version 1.1 Released

MentalCore version 1.1 is avaliable to download.
This update address a number of bugs as well as a few new features,
such as support for Mentalray Standalone and a way to attach
MentalCore shaders to Maya Hair.
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Exocortex Species 1.0 - Released

Exocortex Species 1.0 Official Release Video by Exocortex Species

Official Release Video for Exocortex Species, a new character modeling and rigging system for Softimage.
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Exocortex Species

Exocortex Technologies, in collaboration with CG Artists Chris Covelli and Eric Thivierge ,
is pleased to introduce Exocortex Species. Exocortex Species simplifies …

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ZBrush 4R2b Released - Now Available for Win + Mac

ZBrush 4R2b Overview

With enhancements to the already powerful features in ZBrush 4R2,
the all new ZBrush 4R2b takes the potential of features like the BPR Renderer
and its real time filters to the next level. You'll be amazed by the capabilities
of the added functions in this latest version.

Our goal here at Pixologic, is to provide the most comprehensive …

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SprayTrace 1.1 - Maya Plugin - Features Video

SprayTrace 1.1 Features by SprayTrace

This new version of Spraytrace adds new features making it even
more useful for super fast feedback on your Mental Ray scene:
Region Piority, Under Cursor Priority, Zoom, Pause/Resume
and Save your image.
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About SprayTrace

Instant feedback on Maya MentalRay scenes
SprayTrace provides an instant …

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ChaosGroup - V-Ray 2.0 Update - New Features Video

A short video describing the new features in the latest service pack for V-Ray 2.0.
The main improvements include support for the V-Ray Blend material for the V-Ray RT
on GPU as well as improved functionality of V-Ray RT as a whole.
A new type of texture node called VRayPtex allows you to render ptex textures with V-Ray.
Additionally small improvements have …

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AE3D Tools - DarkCorner - Ambient Occlusion - After Effects Plugin

DarkCorner - Ambient Occlusion Plug-in for After Effects by Gökhan Sönmez

DarkCorner quickly and interactively computes Ambient Occlusion for a given image
or an image sequence and depth (Z) information, using the power of your GPU.
The depth channel can be supplied within image formats like .rla or .rpf, or as a separate
image sequence.
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RealFlow2013 is Coming - New HYBRIDO Solver + Sample Video

Car Skidding - RealFlow2013 is coming! by luisM.

Finally I was allowed to share with you some simulations that I did with the new HYBRIDO solver,
to be released within RealFlow 2013. This solver has been created from scratch in order to replace the current one.
In the videos you can see that is a pretty fast solver and gives a natural and realistic …

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