Vue 6 Easel $39

E-on software are selling Vue 6 Easel for $39 this weekend (Saturday 2nd August to Sunday 3rd August 2008) a saving of 60% on the usual price of $99. The offer is available on both boxed and download versions in English, French or German.

Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008 - Last Day for Submissions

Today (31st July 2008) is the last day for submissions for the Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008

Vue xRay Tutorial

The latest Geekatplay Studio tutorial for Vue includes creating an xRay material and a free xRay material.

Mixed Materials Tutorials for Vue

There is a new Geekatplay Studio video tutorial for Vue 6 covering creating mixed materials. It includes details on the smooth blending terrain materials, function driven texture mixing and tree bark textures.

Western Sale at Cornucopia 3D

This weeks sale at Cornucopia 3D is on items with a theme of the old American West.

Vue Desert Advert

Migara Hewawardena aka Daggie has posted about using Vue in the production of this advert on CGTalk

Linda's new Lush Garden Bushes

The new Lush Garden Bushes pack isn't simply a rework of the original pack. Instead it has five entirely new plant species including three Japanese Maples (Orange Dream, Trompenburg and Dissectum), a Cornus Alba (Tartarian Dogwood), and a Lingustrum Japonicum (Japanese Privet).

The new solid growth bushes are added to the six solid growth garden bush species included in the original pack. These are a vast improvement over the originals because the all the textures are brand new and ultra high resolution so you can use the plants in close up renders as well as in the foreground or distance.

Generously Linda is giving the new pack away to everyone who bought the older pack. If you bought the original you can get the new pack by downloading it from your Cornucopia 3D account.

New Poser and Vue Tutorial from Geekatplay Studio

Geekatplay Studio has a new video tutorial about how to use Poser and Vue together. It starts with setting up a model in Poser with animation. It then goes on to show how to bring it into Vue including the animation or just a single frame of the animation.

Lush Newsletter July 2008

This one slipped past me when it came out a couple of weeks ago so a little late but definitly worth looking at...

The latest issue of Lush News including a link to download a free solid growth Japanese Privet (Ligustrum Japonicum) model for Vue 5 and Vue 6 from Linda's entirely new Lush Garden Bushes pack.

Blossoming Free Trees from Gill Brooks for Vue

Gill Brooks has posted a free blossoming tree model for Vue on her web site. Look in the Freebies -> Vue section.

Free Rendering at the Ranch Renderfarm

The RANCH Renderfarm is offering a free gift of 15 minutes render time (worth $58.14). 15 minutes on the RANCH is equivalent to 24 hours of render time on a Quad Core @ 3 GHz.

Bruno's Free Pebbles for Vue

Bruno Memain is giving away three white pebbles with slight colour and bump variations for all versions of Vue 6 available now at Cornucopia 3D.

3D World - August 2008 and Vue

3D World issue 107 (August 2008) is now available in the UK. Not a lot in this issue specifically for Vue users from what I could see flicking through a copy in Liverpool's W.H. Smith. A full page devoted to the Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008 and a picture made using Vue in the Exhibition section (sorry the new W.H. Smith is rather cramped so taking a note of details wasn't possible if its your picture drop me an e-mail and I'll add your details).

White Goods for Vue on Sale at Cornucopia 3D

This weeks sale at Cornucopia 3D is on a selection of vob models of kitchen items from pots and pans to cookers and fridges all for use with e-on software's Vue.

Imaginary Cities Winners

The winners of the Coruncopia 3D Imaginary Cities contest have been announced:

Joint 1st Place:
"Cloud Control to Major Thom" by Welles Goodrich
"Galaxy City" by Maurizio Sole

2nd Place:
"A.D: 3112" by Christian Beyer

3rd Place:
"Survivance" by Jean Michel Duby

Honorable Mention:
"Hidden Underwater World" by eljotem

FRAMANIP

FRAMANIP is a viewer created by Frédéric Louguet and available exclusively from Ranch Computing. Designed to allow the fast and easy viewing of sequences of frames rendered as separate images. It is ideal for checking all the frames of a just rendered 3D animation. It can read BMP, TGA, TIF, PNG and JPG frame sequences.

FRAMANIP is compatible with Windows XP and Vista (32-bit / 64-bit). However, it is for now only available as a 32-bit program, thus subject to the 2 GB memory access limit of any 32-bit application. A 64-bit version may be released at some point in the future.

Free Vue Rocks

Frank T has a small collection of free rocks made with ZBrush for use with Vue.

XSI Studio needs Vue Artist

XSI studio needs Vue artist

M.A.R.K.13 a Stuttgart, Germany based animation studio is seeking a Vue professional for film production.

We are looking for someone that can handle a number of shots with the animation travelling through different landscapes.

The animation will be done in XSI. Some parts of the work have to be done in XSI, some in MAX and the landscapes in Vue.

Freelancers that have experience in this field are very welcome to send their showreels to us. Production time is between mid/end July to mid September.

Production is a 3 minute, full-HD film for Daimler AG.

Please send your mails to: office@mark13.com

Announcing the “Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008”!

8 JUDGES TO REPRESENT THE 3D ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!

July 1, 2008. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, makers of Vue, the leading solutions for natural 3D environments, in association with Softimage, Pixologic, 3D Total, Wacom, 3Dconnexion, Cornucopia3D and 3D World Magazine, today announced the third edition of the "Vue 3D Environment Competition", designed to showcase the capabilities of 3D technology for CG environments.

Any version of Vue - including the free Vue 6 Personal Learning Edition (PLE) - can be used (standalone or in combination with any other 3D application) to enter the competition.

Judging will be based solely on the quality, realism and artistic merit of the entries, not on the version of Vue used to create them.

With a group of 8 prestigious judges representing the different fields of the 3D Industry, this competition is a unique chance for anybody to see their work exposed to the eyes of industry experts, as well as to win over $15,000 in prizes.

Get Noticed!

The “Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008” judges are all leading figures in the world of 3D graphics, from the Motion Picture, Game, Media and Broadcast to the Architecture industries:

• Paul Huston – Digital Matte Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic
• Youngil Pyo - Lead Digital Artist, Digital Domain
• Eran Dinur – Compositor and Matte Artist, LucasFilm Animation Singapore
• Stephane Belin – Senior Concept Artist, Electronic Arts
• Susumu Yukuhiro – Senior Matte Artist, Whiskytree
• Tom Greenway – Editor, 3DTotal.com
• Jim Thacker – Editor, 3D World magazine
• Jeff Mottle – President and Founder, CGarchitect.com

Over $15,000 in Prizes!

The winner of the “Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008” will receive a complete 3D arsenal worth over $6,900 including: Softimage XSI Essentials ($2,995), a 3D Total Mega Bundle (worth over $1,300), Vue 6 xStream ($995), Pixologic ZBrush 3.1 ($595), 1 3Dconnexion SpacePilot ($399), 1 Wacom Intuos 6x11 Tablet ($369), 1 year subscription to 3D World magazine ($150), $100 voucher for Cornucopia3D content, and a 1 year subscription to 3D Creative and 2D Artist magazines ($81.2).

The first runner up will receive over $4300 of prizes including Softimage XSI Essentials ($2995), Vue 6 Infinite ($695), 1 3Dconnexion SpaceExplorer ($299), 1 year subscription to 3D World magazine ($150), 1 year subscription to 3D Creative and 2D Artist magazines ($81.2), and $75 voucher for Cornucopia3D content.

The second runner up will receive over $4000 of prizes including Softimage XSI Essentials ($2995), Vue 6 Infinite ($695), 1 year subscription to 3D World magazine ($150), 1 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator ($99), 1 year subscription to 3D Creative and 2D Artist magazines ($81.2), and $50 voucher for Cornucopia3D content.

Submissions start July 1, 2008 and end July 31, 2008.

The winners of the competition will be announced at the Siggraph show, in Los Angeles, on August 12, 2008.

More information is available at: www.e-onsoftware.com/competition

E-on Software News June 30th 2008

E-on software's latest newsletter is now available including:

• Vue 3D Environment Competition 2008
• Vue 6 Esprit Modules Sale
• A Profile of Dragos Jieanu
• New Training Materials Available
• e-on software at Siggraph 2008