http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/maya.mudbox.2010.revealed/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0908/maya2010.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Autodesk has announced 2010 updates for two of its key graphics suites, Maya and Mudbox. Maya handles a variety of animation, rendering and effects tasks, and in its 2010 edition will gain Composite, a new module replacing technology from the company's now-defunct Toxik software. Also planned is Backburner, a queue manager for network rendering, and MatchMover, a 3D tracking and matchmoving comp... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/maya.mudbox.2010.revealed/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/23/collada.for.modo.401/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0903/modo401.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Developer Luxology has announced a upcoming COLLADA plug-in for its imminent 3D rendering suite, modo 401. COLLADA is an XML scheme, used to ensure that art output created with one program can be edited by another, where normally filetypes would be incompatible. The plug-in will support layered transform stacks, and text profiles of modo items, channels and animation envelopes.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/23/collada.for.modo.401/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/rhino.cad.needs.leopard/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/maya2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new Wenatchee build of Rhino has upped the system requirements to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and introduced several new features, while the new Electric Image Sonica 1.0 plug-in provides audio-visual synchronization for Maya users. Architosh reports that Rhino can now accommodate European ISO keyboards for some menu shortcuts, as well as two new mouse gestures, four trackpad gestures, and many new c... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/07/rhino.cad.needs.leopard/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/21/craft.director.tools/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/craftsml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Craft Animations has released its Craft Director Tools animation plug-in suite for users of Autodesk Maya on the Mac platform. Three primary sets of plug-ins are offered, including Craft Camera Tools, Craft Vehicles, and Craft Accessories. A variety of camera functions are available, including controls for automatic zoom, camera movements, simulated human interaction, and real time camera perspect... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/21/craft.director.tools/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/stitcher.imagemodeler/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/30-d700-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Following its announcement of Maya 2009, Autodesk has revealed two more apps in development for October, Stitcher Unlimited and ImageModeler. Each is based on software formerly developed by REALVIZ; the former lets users generate panoramas and wide-angle shots by merging photos, and has been upgraded with a "fully" automatic engine, as well as high dynamic range (HDR) compositing, support for Pho... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/stitcher.imagemodeler/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/maya.2009.announced/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/maya2009.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Autodesk has announced Maya 2009, the next version of its 3D modeling, animation and effects suite. Features in the new version are expected to include a "Maya Assets" toolset, which will let people bundle a particulate set of nodes into a single container, and view that data in a means suited to an artist's assignment. Users will also have access to a new "Render Proxy" feature in mental ray, a... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/maya.2009.announced/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/26/wirefusion.5.for.mac/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/25-wirefusion-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Demicron recently announced support for the Mac platform by unveiling WireFusion 5 for Mac, its architectural and industrial design software for small and medium sized design firms. According to Architosh,WireFusion allows designers to create realtime 3D visualizations using content imported from Maya, Lightwave 3D or any other application that can export to VRML or X3D file formats. WireFusion 5... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/26/wirefusion.5.for.mac/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/19/sonica.plug.in.for.maya/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/sonica.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />EI Technology has released the public beta version of Sonica, a plug-in for the Maya rendering suite. The software is used to synchronize animation in Maya to sound; it does this by extracting spectrum and waveform animation from a track, and generating dependency nodes that can be connected to others for different effects. Multi-tracking is supported, and pre-made scripts are included for commo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/19/sonica.plug.in.for.maya/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:25:00 GMT