Battlestar Galactica VFX
New Webinar at KurvStudios.com Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, 2010 at 10AM PST! Radically cool and easy to use Stereoscopic tips and tricks for Lightwave 3D and Fusion 6!
Hey Fusion/Lightwave kats.
I will be doing a very special 3d Stereoscopic primer class tomorrow (Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010) at 10AM PST (12PM CST) at www.kurvstudios.com
Featured in this live webinar will be a review of Lightwave's 3D
stereoscopic tools, how to use them and why they are great, but how to
make them better in ways you could never imagine and I will show you
how to get real-time stereoscopic preview without the use of glasses!
Fusion 6 stereoscopic basics will also be covered.
Attend this webinar and you are entered to win a full package of
Fusion6/Generation2 from Eyeon worth 10,000 bucks! This is the last
webinar where we will be allowing entries into the draw for this sick
package.
Lots of test footage will be provided to attendees who will then receive downloads after the class.
Hit www.kurvstudios.com
now, sign up and get into n this class. If you can't make it but still
want to be entered, sign up and pay and you will automatically be in
the draw, plus you will be able to get the downloadable version
afterwards.
More goodies than you can shake a Kat at!
See you there!
Kat! =^..^=
Another Bakudan Update!
Well we have had some successes in the past week but also some failures. We will unfortunately have to abandon the path of making Bakudan 100% compatible with Dynamite scenes. However this is not exaclty a huge loss or set back when you think about it. We have though succcessfully conducted tests using the Cornell University White Paper on CFD systems (google it) and that techology is now being introduced into Bakudan. It looks like we are going to have fluids first and particles later. YAHOO! While I can't get into it too heavily at this time, those of you who are really kick ass at PFX simulations, are going to get a really happy bit of news eventually.
One of the other bad news bits was we melted our Win64 machine, and that almost stopped development on the PC cold for a week. That problem has been addressed now, but we have lost some time because of it. Thank you for your patience. More images will be coming soon, but there are a couple on the forums at the moment.
Kat
What is Bakudan?
For those of you who have been hearing about a new plug-in for Lightwave 3D on the forums of some popular CG graphics sites and are looking to find out more, you have come to one of the right places to get the low down on "Bakudan".
When I say "one of the right places" I mean here and DeclarationPictures.com (site coming soon).
So what the hell is Bakudan? In short, if you were a Dynamite user, Bakudan is like Dynamite, but doesn't suck.
While I can't get too much into the details with regards to Bakudan at this time, I can say that Bakudan will be entering closed beta testing soon and will be priced fairly! Open beta testing will begin once we have a few things sorted out.
Some things to look forward to in Bakudan are...
- Particle, Polygon, Vertex modes for particle (HV style) rendering/set ups
- Fluidic Smoke and Fire FX
- Clean Rendering fully compliant with Lightwave 9.6 (and above)
- Fast rendering! By at least a factor of 2x faster than Dynamite
- Multi-Threaded CPU support for CFD Calculations
- Possible GPU accelerated CFD calculations
- Ability to render Dynamite scenes with Bakudan Render* (will no longer be supported - Sorry, Dynamite sucked)
- and much much more!
Stay tuned for more details!
If you want to find out more and put your name in for beta testing email me here. at kat @ bsg75vfx.com
Kurv Studios BSG VFX Series videos are now available!
Many of the videos I have been doing over the past month in live Webinars with Kurv Studios are now available as DVD's or Downloads. Check out www.kurvstudios.com and hit there Lightwave training store section for more details.
Lot's more stuff to come plus great downloads and tutorials here on BattlestarVFX.com! Check back soon for more details and extra goodies!