SIGGRAPH: MAXON BRINGS CINEMA 4D BODYPAINT 3D TO NEW ORLEANS
BodyPaint 3D is Maxon's high-end texturing tool. The tool is designed to improve workflows for users of Softimage, Maya, 3DS Max and LightWave 3D. The current R4 release offers 64-bit support for Mac OS X 10.5, Collada import and export, and the ability to load Photoshop-compatible ABR brushes.
Maxon is hosting Cinema 4D expert Dr. Volker Sassmannshausen (Dr. Sassi) at their booth, where the animated short JET (Junior Extraterrestrial) is being previewed. In addition to producing the solo endeavor, he is documenting each step in the animation process for a new series of tutorials for the Cineversity site.
Tom Quach, senior texture/matte painter at Sony Pictures Imageworks will also be at the booth, showing visual effects developed for the feature Watchmen.
The creative team at Innovative Show Design (ISD) is demonstrating the making of several broadcast set design projects — most recently for Super Bowl XLIII and Poker After Dark, both for NBC, as well as the 2009 Speed Week at Daytona 500.
And Alan Williams, an MFA broadcast design and motion graphics student at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and winner of this year's Inspire09 symposium's 9 x 90 Competition is presenting his winning motion-media design project, Meditations in a Toolshed (www.alanjyd.com).