DIGITAL SCUPLTING

P i x o l o g i c
! sets the standard in digital scuplting !

""ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world’s most advanced tools for today’s digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience that feels incredibly natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist within. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows you to create limited only by your imagination.""

This facilitates the interaction of 3D models, 2D images and 2.5D Pixols in new and unique ways. ZBrush gives you all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept and then take that idea all the way to completion. You can create realistic renders directly in ZBrush with lighting and atmospheric effects. With the many powerful export options, you can easily prepare your model for 3D printing or use within any other digital application.

http://www.pixologic.com - [ site ] -

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/ - [ forum ] -

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/ - [ other link ]

Renderjam (like youtube in 3D)

Hope all is well. I havent posted for a while but here is a BIG and exciting NEW way to comunicate your models and 3D content....The Renderjam 3D Collaboration Service lets you effortlessly share your 3D assets with anyone anywhere. Embed your 3D files into web pages and blogs just like Youtube™

Although this appears to be free at 1st Renderjam provides three hosting packages in which you can subscribe, and its not cheap, but offers a service like no other...! So Im off to check it out.

Renderjam - http://www.renderjam.com/rjvideo.aspx

SketchUp users can signup on Renderjam.com for free, create a workspace and start collaborating on 3D assets within minutes. The Renderjam service tracks all workspace activity and can issue a daily audit trail report of all changes made by participants. Most importantly, all project stakeholders including those who don't have SketchUp can easily see, manipulate and annotate the 3D project assets in the web browser and directly contribute to the project instead of having to wait for emails, look at still images or couriered paper rolls.

Aftercad Software
Aftercad is a leading provider of innovative products and solutions that enable the viewing and publishing of complex 3D data sets over the web. Aftercad allows organizations to publish, share, annotate and manage 3D CAD data for Digital Prototyping, Manufacturing, Building Information Modeling and Infrastructure Planning.
For more information, visit http://www.aftercad.com/

Id like to know your feedback so all comments welcome please.

Twight Render

Twilight Render TM*
"a fully integrated rendering solution for Google SketchUp Free and Pro".
With Twilight, it's now possible to render photo-realistic images inside Google SketchUp! Render with biased and unbiased methods on an unlimited number of processors.

While Twilight is rendering in the background, continue working in and saving your SketchUp models.

Twilight offers physically accurate materials, photometric (IES) lights, image based (HDR) lighting, a long list of easy-to-choose optimized preset render settings, animation with SketchyPhysics and ProperAnimation, and more!

Its worth taking a look at the Twilight website, forum and on-line shop.

How to choose a Renderer (for sketchup)

Tips when selecting a rendering application for sketchup.

The video showcases many important features that users should think
about before buying any rendering software for use in Google SketchUp. The video is simply meant to get people, both beginners and professionals, to think about the capabilities of different renderers before making any purchase.

The video points out different parts of a model made using sketchUp that any good rendering software should be able to render. The video also includes a link so that a user can download the same model from the video and test it out on a renderer of their choice. If their renderer does not render the model correctly, then maybe they should try another piece rendering software.

Of course you should consider the import and exporting features and its compatibilty with either Mac and/or PC versions
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A REAL LEGO HOUSE!!

Lego house.
Well..I was going to say only in America, but this one has be built in the UK by a lego fanatic using 815 million lego pieces, and I imagine a few crazy friends and family members to help.

You can find more pics and the storey here, and more about what else this crazy guy is up too here.

SU Books

This looks like a wonderful guide to SU Landscaping and Site Design..check it out the links here;

1. http://www.daniel-tal.com/

2. http://www.youtube.com/dtalspace

3. This is the link to Amazon and the book.

3D Worlds

M Y C O S M

http://www.mycosm.com/

Your own 3D world, free. Create your own unique world and share it with friends online. Play games, share media, chat, make money, all in breathtaking 3D graphics.

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