Exclusive Melbourne Training Event for Architectural Visualization

3DATS and CGarchitect.com have partnered to bring you a one time exclusive training event in Melbourne, Australia for Architectural Visualization Artists. Featuring industry experts Brian Smith, Pete Draper, and Jeff Mottle, each class includes:

• 18 hours of intense instruction over two days
• Lunch and refreshments each day
• Access to a private party on May 1st
  
• A current or future 3DATS book
  
• A special gift to be provided during class
  
• Exclusive discounts from industry vendors
  

When is this happening? April 27 - May 2, 2009

What are the Training Topics? 3ds Max, mental ray, V-Ray, Combustion and Fusion

REGISTER BEFORE MARCH 6th, 2009 AND SAVE $300!

Click here to learn more about the 3DATS Melbourne, Australia training classes or go to http://www.3dats.com/melbourne/.

3ds Max Architectural Visualization - Advanced to Expert Announced

3DATS will be publishing the third title in its visualization series in the summer of 2009. Entitled 3ds Max Architectural Visualization - Advanced to Expert, this book will be a collection of self-contained chapters, written by dozens of industry experts. The goal of this book is to take readers from an advanced level to an expert level by providing a straight-forward discussion of difficult subject matter not available anywhere else. It serves as a follow-on companion to the two previous books of the same title; the Beginner to Intermediate and Intermediate to Advanced editions.

Content of 3ds Max Architectural Visualization - Advanced to Expert includes:

Part I - Color and Composition
Part II - Materials
Part III - Lighting
Part IV - Rendering
Part V - Animation
Part VI - Workflow
Part VII - Post production

You can view more details and the table of contents at http://3dats.com/expert_book/.

A list of architectural visualization and movie authors and industry experts will be released within the next few weeks. Check back to this blog for more details.

Exclusive Sydney Training Event for Architectural Visualization

3DATS and CGarchitect.com have partnered to bring you a one time exclusive training event in Sydney, Australia for Architectural Visualization Artists. Featuring industry experts Brian Smith, Pete Draper, and Jeff Mottle, each class includes:

• 18 hours of intense instruction over two days
• Lunch and refreshments each day
• Access to a private party on April 24th
  
• A current or future 3DATS book
  
• A special gift to be provided during class
  
• Exclusive discounts from industry vendors
  

When is this happening? April 20-25, 2009

What are the Training Topics? 3ds Max, mental ray, V-Ray, Combustion and Fusion

REGISTER BEFORE MARCH 6th, 2009 AND SAVE $300!

Click here to learn more about the 3DATS Sydney, Australia training classes or go to http://www.3dats.com/sydney/.

Exclusive Dubai Training Event for Architectural Visualization

3DATS and CGarchitect.com have partnered to bring you a one time exclusive training event in Dubai for Architectural Visualization Artists. Featuring industry experts Brian Smith, Pete Draper, and Jeff Mottle, each class includes:

• 18 hours of intense instruction over two days
• Lunch and refreshments each day
• Access to a private party on March18th
  
• A current or future 3DATS book
  
• A special gift to be provided during class
  
• Exclusive discounts from industry vendors
  

When is this happening? May 30-June 4, 2009

What are the Training Topics? 3ds Max, mental ray, V-Ray, Combustion and Fusion

REGISTER BEFORE March 1st, 2009 AND SAVE $300!

Click here to learn more about the 3DATS Dubai training classes or go to http://www.3dats.com/dubai/.

Free 1-hour live demonstration of OnyxGRASS and Onyx2Max from Onyx Computing

Onyx Computing announces the release of two new products, two upgrades and a free 1-hour live demonstration!

New Products:

OnyxGRASS is the first dedicated parametric modeler for grasses. The modeler creates a wide variety of decorative grasses, wild grasses, and grass covers and it comes with the library of ready-to-use grasses and grass covers. As is the case with all our modelers, this modeler has a well structured, intuitive interface, easy to understand and especially so by all those who are visually inclined.

Onyx2Max is our new plugin for 3ds Max that enables the import of Onyx proprietary 3D files to Max. It is not meant to be a competitor to our famous TREE STORM, but a complement import tool to replace obsolete 3ds file import. Onyx2Max imports Onyx 3D plants with their 3D geometry, color-per-vertex data, materials, UV mapping coordinates, and textures. Extremely useful tool for 3ds Max users!


Upgraded Products:

OnyxGARDEN Suite 2 includes our new OnyxGRASS modeler with the GRASS library. This means that the new Suite is now a collection of SIX dedicated plant modelers/creators with their respective libraries of more than 460 ready-to-use plants. In addition, the new Suite comes with our new Onyx2Max plugin and additional, new libraries with ready-to-use broadleaf and conifer trees, and shrubs.

OnyxGARDEN SuperBundle 2 includes new OnyxGARDEN Suite 2 and TREE STORM plugin for Max.

For more information, visit http://www.onyxtree.com/index.html

For a free 1-hour live demonstration webinar by 3DATS, click here to register http://3dats.com/onyx.asp