Check out a promising open source compositor here.

- HDR
- Node Based
- Multi-Platform (Windows, Linux, OSX)
- Free

Unofficial splash screen.

V2

Dynamic Tessellation (Triangulation)

What is Dynamic Tessellation? Good question. Now the answer from the completely reliable source Wikipedia:

“In the subject of computer graphics, tessellation techniques are often used to manage datasets of polygons and divide them into suitable structures for rendering. Normally, at least for real-time rendering, the data is tessellated into triangles, which is sometimes referred to as triangulation.“1
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If you are a photographer (or at least enjoy taking pictures) and some sort of 3D texture artist, then you might be guilty of being “that guy (or girl) over there that is getting strangely excited about something on that concrete wall.” Now there is the potential to double that “strange excitement” with a new software program due to release anytime (at the time of this writing).
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Part IV of the Damaged Pillar Series has bee uploaded to our Vimeo Channel.

Here is the 3D-Coat Pillar file used in the series that includes the voxel sculpt and the retopology as seen in Part IV.

Starting with the Damaged Pillar series, video tutorials will now be on Vimeo along with YouTube.

Watch on Vimeo here.
And YouTube here.

Here is a link to where I got the texture that I used in the tutorials, and also a link to the edited version that was used in 3D-Coat to do the actual sculpting.
Original image here
Edited here

Go to our YouTube channel to watch now.
You can also watch them at our Vimeo Channel.

Check out “Create 3D-Coat Turntable Videos using VirtualDub” if you haven’t already.

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Meet Tom and Poly.

Tom is a 3D artist and Poly is a digital figment of his imagination. Tom and Poly spend a lot of time together and sometimes they get angry, especially when Poly does not do what Tom wants.
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