Brazil Rendering System v2 available now

Seattle, WA (Nov. 28, 2007) -- SplutterFish, developers of the award-winning, fully-integrated rendering suite for Autodesk's top-selling animation software, 3ds Max and Autodesk VIZ, today announced the worldwide availability of Brazil r/s version 2.0. Super-stable, packed with powerful features, Brazil r/s v2 provides incredible speed and performance and offers a natural, accessible workflow, without sacrificing the high-end quality that today's CG artists demand. Whether a professional working in film, broadcast, architectural and other visualization industries, or simply a hobbyist or student looking to improve your own toolkit, Brazil r/s v2 empowers you to create new, compelling, and superior-quality imagery.

In addition, SplutterFish is also pleased to announce the immediate availability of its first Professional-Edition beta version (2.1 Pro-Beta), which introduces even more new features, and is available exclusively to Brazil r/s v2 Professional Edition clients.

Adobe Unveils Creative Suite 3 Design Premium

By Adobe
For immediate release
Superior Product Integration and Flash Support Powers Cross-Media Content Delivery

SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 27, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the all-new Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design Premium, an indispensable, highly-efficient creative toolkit for print, web, interactive and mobile design. Loaded with innovative new features, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software integrates groundbreaking new releases of Adobe InDesign® CS3 (see separate press release), Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended (see separate press release), Adobe Illustrator® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, and Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3. Adobe Acrobat® 8 Professional is also included as a key component of Design Premium. Additionally, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard software for designers and print service providers focused on professional design and print production.

Adobe Creative Suite Design editions will be available as Universal applications for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs and support both Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista™. The software has been optimized to deliver outstanding performance on the latest Macintosh and Windows hardware.

“With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, our designers have one consistent set of tools that we can apply across all media. Adobe has made huge integration advancements with the new Creative Suite 3 Design edition, not to mention impressive new functionality in each of the applications that promises to boost our productivity and put exciting new creative tools at our fingertips,” said Micha Riss, creative director for Flying Machine, an award-winning design and branding studio in New York.

“Our new Design editions are anchored by powerhouse upgrades to InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “And by bringing Flash and Dreamweaver into the mix, we're ensuring that interactive design is now front and center in today’s creative workflows. Creatives will do back-flips over the new levels of integration between their favorite Adobe and Macromedia tools.”
Unified Design Environment Packed With Essential Creative Tools

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium combines indispensable tools for page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with newly integrated components for creating compelling publications, websites, rich interactive experiences, and engaging mobile content—all in one highly efficient work environment. Dozens of new and enhanced features in InDesign CS3 make it easier and faster to handle repetitive layout tasks. The new Live Color feature in Illustrator CS3 enables designers to experiment with, save, and apply combinations of colors quickly and intuitively. Daily image editing tasks such as selecting image areas, compositing images, and applying filters are faster and more flexible with Photoshop CS3 Extended.
New Integration with Flash and Dreamweaver

New integration of Flash CS3 Professional means designers and developers can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files into projects created with Flash with full fidelity, saving time and producing higher quality results compared to previous workflows. In addition, Dreamweaver CS3 automatically optimizes for the web when designers copy and paste Photoshop files into web layouts. Designers can also repurpose print content for the web by exporting InDesign selections or documents as XHTML files and then opening them in Dreamweaver to jumpstart a web design.
Meet The Creative Suite 3 Family

The Adobe Creative Suite product line and brand has now been expanded to include Adobe Creative Suite Design editions, Adobe Creative Suite Web editions and Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium (see separate releases). The all-encompassing Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection incorporates 12 new Adobe creative applications in a single box. New to the Adobe Creative Suite 3 family, Adobe Device Central CS3 (see separate release) radically boosts the productivity of creative professionals who develop content for mobile handsets. An updated version of Adobe Bridge CS3, the hub of Adobe Creative Suite, provides instant access to Version Cue® CS3 and an expanded Adobe Stock Photos service. To celebrate the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 family, Adobe will offer viewing of the launch event via webcast on March 27 at 3:30 p.m. EDT. To attend the webcast, please visit www.adobe.com/go/cs3launch .
Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Design Standard will begin shipping in April 2007 to customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com/go/gn_store . Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition is US$1799 and US$1199 for Creative Suite 3 Design Standard edition. There are numerous upgrade paths available for Adobe customers. For more detailed information about features, upgrade policies, pricing, and international versions please visit: www.adobe.com/go/creativesuite .
About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

CINEMA 4D R10 ENGINEERING EDITION RELEASED

MAXON, March 1, 2007 - MAXON announces the immediate availability of its brand new CINEMA 4D R10 Engineering Edition. This powerful software lets engineering professionals - even those with no graphics experience - quickly create high-end visualizations using their own CAD files. This edition combines CINEMA 4D R10 with a simplified interface, preset environments, materials and importers for a huge variety of CAD files as well as the sketch and Toon module for creating precise line drawings or sketched looks. The end result is a powerful, yet extremely easy to use system that makes visualising CAD files child's play.

Companies such as Sony Imageworks, BBC and RTL value CINEMA 4D for its superb rendering, and manufacturers including BMW, Vitra, Siemens and Flextronics rely on CINEMA 4D when creating high-quality visualizations. No matter how large or small your company, the Engineering Edition and CINEMA 4D's Hollywood-proven rendering capabilities are the perfect combination for quickly creating breathtaking visualizations using CAD files.

More information see here

maxwellrender.it Magazine 00-2007

A new Maxwell Render magazine has been launched. The magazine features an exclusive interview with Victor Gonzales CEO Next Limit as well as numberous tutorials and feature articles in both English and Italian.


It can be download here

Nemetschek NA Releases VectorWorks v12.5.1

COLUMBIA, Maryland, January 10, 2007 - Nemetschek North America announced today the release of VectorWorks version 12.5.1, a maintenance update for VectorWorks Designer, VectorWorks Architect, VectorWorks Landmark, VectorWorks Spotlight, VectorWorks Machine Design, VectorWorks Fundamentals, and RenderWorks.

"As with any major VectorWorks release, it is our goal to improve the stability and performance of that release, as well as respond to our users and address any problems they may encounter," says Paul Pharr, Nemetschek North America's chief technology officer. "With VectorWorks 12.5.1, we've worked to resolve our users' most frequently reported issues with VectorWorks 12.5."

VectorWorks 12.5.1 contains important fixes that improve the program's stability and robustness, particularly when opening and saving files over a Macintosh network. Memory and other issues when working with viewports, as well as stacked layers, have been improved. In addition, 3D snapping accuracy when working with symbols, groups, and other objects has been improved.

For complete information on new and enhanced features in VectorWorks 12.5.1, go to www.nemetschek.net/upgrade/index.php.

For more information and to download the 12.5.1 update at no charge, visit www.nemetschek.net/downloads/fundamentals/version12/12.5.1.php.

Nemetschek North America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of European software giant Nemetschek AG. A global leader in design technologies, Nemetschek N.A. has been developing CAD software for the AEC, entertainment, landscape design, and manufacturing fields since 1985. VectorWorks, its flagship product, is one of the world's best-selling cross-platform CAD applications. An all-in-one solution that's easier to learn and use and more cost-effective than most other CAD programs, VectorWorks is ideal for firms that don't have unlimited IT budgets. For more information, visit www.nemetschek.net.

AutoCAD announces MAYA 8.5

Product Information

Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (Application Program Interface), or one of two integrated scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas.

What Version of Maya is Right for You?
Not sure what version of Maya will best empower your vision? Choose from Maya Complete 8.5 or Maya Unlimited 8.5 software.

Click-VR Visualizer

Overview

Click-VR Visualizer is a next generation realtime rendering plugin for 3ds Max. Max users can instantly explore their scenes in realtime and create interactive 3D presentations and visualizations by bringing their projects to life with animations, sounds, videos and user interactions.

Interactively Walk Through Your 3ds Max Scenes

Click-VR Visualizer is completely integrated in 3dsmax. You do not need to waste time exporting data or learning a new 3D software. With just a few simple mouse clicks from inside of 3dsmax you can naturally walk through your 3D scene in realtime.

Reduce Rendering Times

With the ability to explore your scene immidiatly in realtime you will be able to drastically reduce rendering times. You will get a good look at the inside of your scenes and detect problems early in the design process.

Realtime Rendering Performance

Click-VR has been originally designed and used for next-generation games. Outperforming existing real-time solutions in terms of rendering performance and quality - Click-VR is the most comprehensive rendering system available for 3ds Max users. [More...]

Create Amazing Interactive Presentations

Bring your project to life with animations, sounds, videos and user interactions. You can easily add new exciting functionality to your 3D scene. Let doors swing open as you approach them, let radios play music. All elements of the presentation can react to the user - no programming skills required. You will knock your audience off their feet in amezement! [More...]

Publish your work

Finally you can publish your work. You can easily send exported scenes to your customer or audience by creating single file, interactive, distributable 3D scenes without the need for any separate client application.

Available file types:

• Self Installer
• Screensaver
• Standalone executable
• Zip Archive

Requirements

• Pentium III 600 MHz or better
• 256Mb or more RAM
• About 40Mb free hard drive space
• Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 operating system
• 3ds Max 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9
• DirectX 9.0 Runtime or higher. Note: you can freely download the lastest DirectX Runtime from the Microsoft website.
• A DirectX 9 compliant (Pixel shader 2.0) graphics card

Download trial

The final trial version will be available in februar 2007. However you can already freely download a pre-release BETA demo. [Download trial version...]