OctaneRender 2.0 released

OctaneRender 2.0 released

OTOY releases yesterday (Mon Jun 09, 2014) OctaneRender 2.0 and says: "The new features in OctaneRender™ 2 include: Displacement mapping – Used to give objects depth and detail, displacement mapping allows the height of points on a surface to be adjusted based on an...

Natron Compositor Open-Source Chromakey

Natron Compositor Open-Source Chromakey

Natron is an open-source – crossplatform – nodal – compositing software for OS X, LINUX and WINDOWS. It supports OpenFX plugins and have many nice other features. I believe there can never be too many software applications to be aware of that could improve and extend...

Mamba FX – affordable high end compositor

Mamba FX – affordable high end compositor

Mamba FX is a powerful and innovative compositing software package providing unrivalled levels of performance and interactivity. Mamba FX provides high-end compositing tools to meet all requirements from the highly creative indie market through to major TV and studio productions. Mamba runs under Windows and is available for a wide variety of Windows, Linux, and Mac coming soon.

New Pricing for RenderMan, Free for Non-commercial Use

New Pricing for RenderMan, Free for Non-commercial Use

Effective immediately, Pixar is announcing that the price of the current version of RenderMan is $495 per license for commercial use. A free non-commercial RenderMan will be available with the upcoming release of RenderMan scheduled in the timeframe of SIGGRAPH 2014....

Border Rendering Tool for Carrara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiE7UCZWsQ4 Woods Creation has created a morphing area-mask tool that parents to the Carrara camera to block out all but a small window of your image. The tool is used to speed up re-rendering when only one small part of a render has...

Carrara Challenge IX – “The Joke is on Me” Render Contest

Artists may submit up to two images and must use Carrara to render a PUNCH LINE to a joke!

Dates to Remember:
– WIP Thread Opens: 9:00 PM ET May 12, 2014
– Submissions Open: 9:00 PM ET May 19, 2014
– Submissions Close: 9:00 PM ET June 2, 2014
– Voting Starts: 9:00 PM ET May June 2, 2014
– Voting Ends: 9:00 PM ET June 9, 2014

With Prizes Brought to You by Daz 3D and Sadot http://www.daz3d.com/Sadot

Over 300 Tutorials at Carrara Cafe

Great News! Carrara Cafe now features 300+ tutorials for DAZ 3D's Carrara! As part of our site renovation we have added a tagging system to search tutorials by topic, and offer related subjects. This is still a work in progress, so your feedback is appreciated....