Softimage 2011.5

2011.5 (subscription advantage pack) features lots of nice improvements including:


 Lagoa Materials Multiphysics Simulation Framework





• ICE for artists — a new ICE module menu toolbar facilitates building common ICE effects: particles, deforms and kinematics. Using the menu structure, artists can see nodes and compounds connect automatically in the ICE Tree, and create or modify Lagoa Multiphysics materials and other preset effects.



• Stereoscopic 3D support — new stereo camera rigs for stereoscopic productions and in-viewport stereoscopic viewing of 3D scenes
• Softimage Composite — a high-performance, high dynamic range (HDR) compositor with support for stereoscopic production pipelines; Autodesk Softimage Composite will include advanced keying, color correction, tracking and 3D compositing tools and will be compatible with Autodesk Maya 2011 Composite and Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 Composite.
• Polygonizer operator — will help create smoother polygon meshes for liquids
• Maya nCache — Maya nCache format reading and writing will be supported in Softimage
• Autodesk MatchMover toolset— a high-quality professional camera tracker
• Other enhancements: new shader compounds, ray traced shadows for infinite lights, improved OpenGL sprites, the ViewCube functionality and two new real-time shader wizards

Demonstration videos:

http://www.the-area.com/blogs/marks/introducing_softimage_2011_5_with_lagoa

Expected to ship on or after September 29, 2010.

10% off cmiVFX online training videos

Using the code VFX104 you can get 10% off of cmiVFX training videos right now by at the cmiVFX store. (Excludes subscriptions).

Softimage specific videos of interest are both by Thiago Costa and deeply investigate the potential of the ICE platform:-

Softimage ICE For Production

Softimage Scalar Data

Both tutorials can also be bought together for a $9.95 saving.

Also available are many informative tutorials for Nuke and Houdini.

Enjoy.

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

Recently up on Vimeo is this video showing some incredible plugin development from Thiago Costa. Go to the Vimeo page for the Hires version. Simply stunning.

Particle physics framework that gives control over:
- High friction granular materials
- Incompressible fluids
- Elastic structures
- Plastic deformations & more...

Anyone still with doubts regarding the potential of ICE needs to see this vid!