Geekatplay™ Studio Newsletter , 28 Jan 2013

Geekatplay™ Studio Newsletter  I don’t know how cold it is in your area, but here in Utah it’s one of the coldest winters on record. We haven’t seen the ground in over a month. On the bright side if you like to ski it’s place to be. But for normal geeks, it’s a good time ...

Digital backgrounds

It’s fun to take portraits, but sometimes you want bring character out of backdrop color to some fantasy, sci-fi or even horror environment. Lately i have a lot of fun by doing so. Here is one of the result :   And is not hard to do, preset lighting, prepare backdrop, masking, working with layers in Phtoshop, adjust ...

e-onsoftware Vue 11, review. First look. 6

Vue 11 review http://www.e-onsoftware.com/about/?page=PRIndex&date=November%205,%202012 It’s become a tradition to have a new version of Vue every six months, spring-summer for half (.5) versions and November for full versions. All of the releases have nice additions, have bolstered the ‘back end’ programming, and keep the application on the cutting edge for environment renders. Not all our ...

Discovering Vue 11, new video tutorials

Vue 11 is officially out. It’s almost time for tutorials to come out. Here is little bit more details what’s included. First off this is the biggest collection of tutorials ever released as one pack. Over 100 tutorials plus very nice bonus pack, if you purchased. Tutorials include: Installation, Setup, Application options, Application properties and customization. Views, Gizmo, Navigation bars, Tool bars, ...

Water drops on Glass

Idea was to create animated water drops on window glass. After few tweaking here is result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBk4–XHe1Y Tutorial included with “Discovering Vue 11″ tutorials set.

Vue 11 and particles

If you on e-onsoftware subscription to Vue product, you probably enjoying new particle system. Make it more fun and ease to create. I am creating new particles library that will be included with new Discovering Vue 11 tutorial set.  Here is couple animations from testing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSyDrnIE7LQ    Creating steam engine smoke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQr1om6jnk  and preanimated objects as particles   Also ...

E-on Software Unveils Vue 11

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/about/?page=PRIndex&date=October+23%2C+2012 VUE 11 PRE RELEASE AVAILABLE FOR USERS UNDER MAINTENANCE October 23, 2012. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, the leader in 3D Digital Nature technologies, today announced the formal unveiling of its upcoming Vue 11 product line – scheduled for release November, 2012. Concurrently, the company is offering its professional users under maintenance a pre-release version ...

Upcoming tutorials, Visual guide to Vue 3

Working on very extensive video tutorials series, “Visual guide to Vue”. Changing style of tutorial flow. It’s not liner approach to this set. Each subjects like: Interface, Terrain editor, Atmospheres, Animation … etc all as stand alone subjects. This about visual reference to Vue. Where you can jump to specific subject as you need. Cover from “Selecting right version ...

October newsletter

As you can probably see, the newsletter has gone under a major rework. My goal is to provide information to the artist that will inspire and help you in your creative work. You’ll find Tips about different applications, Updates on latest tutorials, Spotlights on the work of other artists and community news. Plus special bonuses ...

E-Onsoftware 3d Environment competition 2012

Usual e-onsoftware have competition in May, so it was little bit surprise about hearing about this now. But this is best time for winners. Great prizes, bigger then ever. Also nice to split in to Three categories:  3D Environment, Character Rendering and Architectural Visualization. Additional changes, now small post work allow in competition. It’s start October 4 and winners announced December 21, 2012 ...

Creating illustrations. Book cover, the workflow

With ease to self publishing now is very important to look how readers can find your work on internet. I may posted some of marketing sugesions in future, right now lets look on one very important part of that, book cover. It is sad once that don’t judge book by it cover, but every one does. And ...

Playing with atmosphere settings

Atmosphere adjustments and more playing with plants placement.

Situ Gunung, new video tutorial. 2

Recorded new tutorial, about three hours of training. Creating Situ Gunung lake view, inspire from some photos i saw. Hope some day come and see it a live. Very inspiration nature there. Tutorial contain six parts and will be released at Cornucopia3D, this or next week. Here is image from tutorial. I start with first creating foreground trees, ...

Stars, space and Vue 3

Some questions come up about creating stars, nebula’s in Vue. Here is images from tutorial, that should coming up as soon Ami record her voice. Images based on new tutorial, no post work, just resized in PS.