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Archive for July, 2010

Bryce 7 is out now

Bryce 7 is out now. Now it comes in three different versions. There is even a free PLE version. This version is however not for commercial usage.
Looking at the video, it seems the render quality has improved significant, approaching that of Vue.
Bryce and Vue should be the most popular landscape generating and rendering […]

Sculptris acquired by Pixologic

According to the Sculptris website, it seems that the software has been acquired by Pixologic. Sculptris is a free 3D digital sculpting software. Pixologic is the maker of the popular commercial sculpting program Zbrush. Will Sculptris still be free in the future? We can only wait and see. In the meantime the software as been […]

Carrara versus Blender

This article is not meant to point out which 3D program is better. It is merely to point out the difference.
Blender is free. Carrara is not but it is certainly one of the cheapest 3D program around that still pack quite a lot of features.
Of the shelf, Carrara is quite easy to get started with. […]

Free Science Fiction Artbook

Uncommon Paradigm is a free 3D art book with a science fiction theme. Currently it is available in the PDF ebook format.
3D graphics programs are used to create the 3D imageries. The software used include Carrara Pro, Blender, Sculptris. Carrara was used mainly for the creation of the alien sceneries. Blender and Sculptris played a […]

Carrara Basic Modelling Tutorial

Carrara’s modeling features can be powerful but the interface can be tricky. This is a nice tutorial that will be covering vertex modelling using Carrara. By the way, in case you do not know, Carrara is a very affordable 3D modeling, rendering and animation software. It also sports cool tools such as terrain and plant […]