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/09/11/05/software.follows.vue.8.releases.eary.in.the.week/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/vue_sml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Following the release of Vue 8 Infinite and xStream this week, e-on is now shipping the rest of its Vue 8 animation utilities including Frontier, Pioneer, Esprit, Studio, and Complete. Frontier provides tools for creating scenic nature and Poser character rendering. The software supports any static Poser model and allows users to render the models using the native shading trees of Poser. A free ve... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/05/software.follows.vue.8.releases.eary.in.the.week/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/solidthinking.80.adds.morphogenesis.integration/ <img align='left' src=' http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/solidtemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SolidThinking has launched global updates to its photorealistic rendering and animation software packages, SolidThinking 8.0 and SolidThinking Inspired 8.0. The design programs offer tools for creating manufacturable models, and allow users to render photorealistic 3D product designs. The latest version of SolidThinking 8.0 delivers a variety of productivity and rendering enhancements, along with ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/solidthinking.80.adds.morphogenesis.integration/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/19/modo.401.ships/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0906/modo-401-19.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Luxology has launched modo 401 , the next generation of its 3D content creation software. The new update focuses on enhancing rendering and animation. Rendering enhancements include caustics, dispersion, blurry refraction, volumetric lighting and deep shadows. modo 401 adds instance replicators which allow dense amounts of surface detail like rivets, trees and barnacles to be rendered with trillio... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/19/modo.401.ships/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/17/vrayforc4d.v11.shipping/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0811/vray-ver1.1-17.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />LAUBlab has released version 1.1 of VRAYforC4D, a major update to the Vray renderer for 3D animation suite Maxon Cinima4D. The update adds over 75 features, enhancements and fixes. It also upgrades the render core to version 1.6 (from Chaosgroup), and has optimizations most areas of the engine. The Vray engine offers accurate light and surface quality rendering, and supports user-defined values, p... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/17/vrayforc4d.v11.shipping/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/14/swift.3d.speeds.intel.ppc/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/Swift3d-5.0-14.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Electric Rain has released a Universal Binary of Swift 3D 5.0 and also added performance gains to the 3D-rendering application. Swift 3D imports and renders Flash content and exports Flash 3D content via Papervision3D export. Version 5.0 adds low-level changes that triple rendering speeds for vector and raster renders on Intel chips. The update also speeds rendering and increases compatibility for... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/14/swift.3d.speeds.intel.ppc/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/29/lightworks.talks.siggraph/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/lightworks-7.9-29.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />LightWork Design has announced LightWorks 7.9 will debut at next month's SIGGRAPH computer graphics exhibition. The company is also promising a new progressive rendering technology and an update to its LightWorks Studio Edition. LightWorks is a 3D graphics rendering toolset. Version 7.9 adds Ambient Occlusion, which adds ambient lighting features for 3D images. New to v7.9 are Complex Reflective S... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/29/lightworks.talks.siggraph/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT