Vue used in Panadol Advert

Migara Hewawardena aka Daggie posted a brief thread about using Vue to make the background for this advert for Panadol Actifast on the CGSociety forums.

Free Vue City Buildings from Gill Brooks

Gill Brooks has released a pack of free materials for Vue to turn cubes or cylinders into city buildings. The set is best suited to darker or night time scenes and also includes two EcoSystems. The pack is now available for all versions of Vue 6 now from Cornucopia 3D.

Vue Jungle Village Tutorial

The latest Geekatplay Studio video tutorial for Vue 6 shows you how to create a jungle village scene. It includes details on creating custom materials, mapping image to model and then goes on to show you how to set up the jungle village scene.

Monsoon Rocks

Monsoon's previewing his new rock collection for Vue 6 Infinite, Pro and Esprite. It includes 72 procedural materials many using displacement to sculpt with underlying objects. It will also include a collection of optimized Vue rocks with no jagged edges and no unwanted discolorations. Another collection includes modeled rock objects and a third is made up of Vue rocks in concert. You can read more and see previews over at the 3D Commune Vue Forums.

Imaginary Cities at Cornucopia 3D

Its the last weekend of the Imaginary Cities image contest at Cornucopia 3D. There are three prizes of content voucher for Cornucopia3D for the first three placing entries. The competition runs to Monday, 30th June 2008 (midnight, GMT).

This weeks sales sees more building models and city items for Vue offered with discounts of up to 70% off.

New for Vue@Daz

This week has seen two new Vue releases at Daz: Stonemason Greeble City Blocks and Martin J Frost Forgotten Places Ecosystems and Plants.

Two New Vue Video Tutorials

Two new Vue video tutorials from Geekatplay Studio this week. The first covers exporting from DAZ Studio to Vue and the second is about God rays.

Kung Fu (Vue) Panda

Markus Manninen (VFX Supervisor DreamWorks) answers quetions on the CG Society web site about Kung Fu Panda. On the third page he explains how they used Vue as part of their production...

A lot of our large locations went through a process where the world was created roughly in a software called Vue (e-onsoftware) by our matte painting lead Scott Brisbane. Then the renders out of that were painted on by our matte painters to define the finished detail and push the look and lighting further than what was done in Vue. The final matte paintings were then projected back on geometry by our matte painting compositors and rendered on the farm. Initially we used Maya for rendering, but late in the project we were able to switch to our own renderer.

Kung Fu Panda, directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, premièred at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in May 2008 and has taken $117 million at the US box office in its first two weeks. Its the tale of a bungling panda who wants to be a kung fu warrior. Kung Fu Panda stars the voices of Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross and Ian McShane.

50% Off Vue 6 Pro Upgrade and Vue 6 Esprite Modules

Another sale on Vue from e-on software. This time they are offering a 50% discount on the price of all the expansion modules for Vue 6 Esprite and the upgrade from Vue 6 Esprite to Vue 6 Pro. The offer runs until July 7th.

Vue 6 Pro Studio	US/Canada	Europe	UK	Others
Vue 6 Pro Studio - Vue 6 Esprit Sidegrade (Module Licenses)	US$100	US$100	US$100	US$100
Vue 6 Pro Studio Module	US/Canada	Europe	UK	Others
EcoSystems for Vue 6 Esprit (License)	US$50	US$50	US$50	US$50
HyperVue for Vue 6 Esprit (License)	US$20	US$20	US$20	US$20
Botanica for Vue 6 Esprit (License)	US$20	US$20	US$20	US$20
LightTune for Vue 6 Esprit (License)	US$20	US$20	US$20	US$20
DeepAccess for Vue 6 Esprit (License)	US$20	US$20	US$20	US$20

Vue Render Layers Tutorial

Kerem Gongus has posted a new tutorial on rendering scenes as multilayer PSD in Vue.

3D World - August 2008 and Vue

Well June isn't over but the August issue of 3D World Magazine (issue 106) has been available since sometime last week. It includes a tutorial on adding post process depth of field effects to Vue images using Photoshop on page 70. Supporting files are provided online.

Alien Plants Sale

This weeks sale at Cornucopia 3D is on a selection of alien plants.

New Geekatplay Tutorial for Vue

Geekatplay studio has released a new video tutorial for Vue covering creating an animated logo in Vue.

Strolling in Paris Sale at Cornucopia 3D

Cornucopia 3D is running a one week sale on Paris themed 3d models for Vue.

Vue Windmill Model

Captain Marlowe has a new, free, low polygon Vue model of a windmill available from his web site.

Renderosity Challenge - June 2008

The June 2008 Renderosity Vue formum challenge is Dreaming.

Cornucopia3D Newsletter 26

Cornucopia3D Newsletter 26 is out now.

NBC/Universal Studios Lightwave Animator

A position for a Lightwave Animator for NBC/Universal Studios is being advertised on the reel-exchange jobs board and mentions Vue experience as an advantage.

Desert with Rising Hot Air Tutorial for Vue

Yesterday Geekatplay studio gave us an iceberg tutorial for Vue today they give us a tutorial on desert with rising hot air for Vue too.

Icebergs Tutorial for Vue

Icebergs, water and ship is a new video tutorial for Vue from the busy bees at the Geekatplay studio.

Renderosity: A Decade of Change

2008 is the 10th anniversary of the Renderosity community, and to celebrate they are holding a contest with over $30,000 in prizes. There are two categories: 3D/Animation and 2D/Photography and the competition theme is a decade of change. Entries can be a Renderosity birthday celebration or any representation of the last 10 years as you choose. The competition runs from Monday June 16th 2008 to Monday June 30th 2008 12:00pm NOON [CST] (Renderosity Server Time).

They are also offering a coupon for 10% off a single order in the Renderosity MarketPlace for use until June 9th.

Competition sponsors include e-on software.

Renderosity Challenge - May 2008 Voting

The May 2008 Vue Challenge at Renderosity is open for votes until Wednesday June 4th, 9pm Renderosity time.

Imaginary Cities! Competition at Cornucopia 3D

There is a new image contest at Cornucopia 3D to create a pictures of Imaginary Cities. There are three prizes of content voucher for Cornucopia3D for the first three placing entries. The competition runs to Monday, 30th June 2008 (midnight, GMT).