Maxon’s popular products Cinema 4D, Red Giant, RedShift, Forger, ZBrush, and Universe are available to educational institutions with the comprehensive Maxon One subscription bundle. This Fall, there has been a major update for the Maxon One offering. This release offers advanced simulation and a wide range of new enhancements and features to Maxon’s impressive line of 3D modeling, rendering, painting, … Read More
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If you are looking to teach your students using products that have been used in engineering, television, architecture, science, film, and other industries take note of Maxon. As an award-winning developer of painting, animation, 3D modeling, and rendering software, Maxon offers special academic pricing that allows educational institutions to bring their exceptional products to the classroom in an affordable way. … Read More
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Unity 3D has some great tools for handling animations. In general, developers will utilize animation controllers (Unity calls them animator controllers) to handle which animations to play and when to play them. In this Unity tutorial blog, I’m going to provide step-by-step instructions to create a very simple animation controller. This controller will be able to play an animation when … Read More
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Chaos Group recently welcomed V-Ray for MODO to it’s catalog of professional rendering software. If you aren’t familiar, MODO is a content creation package that provides powerful tools for 3D modeling, sculpting, rendering and more. Created by The Foundry, a company focused on making smart software for creative people, MODO is ideal for content creation. The new V-Ray for MODO release brings exceptional rendering … Read More
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This September marks the release of Maxon’s CINEMA 4D R16, the company’s latest 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solution software. The release is said to address the changing workflow of creative professionals working in broadcast, film, visualization and other interactive media. This new software suite comes just in time for the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), which will be … Read More
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Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post talking about how Game Design fits in with STEM Education. I still use those same talking points when I deliver webinars on the subject. Really, none of that has changed. Game Design is still heavily involved in every aspect of STEM education. However, I left out a very important part of Game … Read More
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There was a comment on our blog recently that asked whether or not it’s possible to use a 3D Design package like the Autodesk Maya 3D Animation software to create 2D Animations. This is entirely possible and the workflow is used widely in 2D video game development. The basic workflow consists of creating your model in your 3D modeling software … Read More
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Autodesk recently released the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate 2013. This new suite offers a host of advanced professional design and animation creation software titles including; Autodesk Maya 2013 and 3ds Max 2013 combined with Mudbox 2013 – Autodesk’s painting and sculpting software. Plus the ECS offers MotionBuilder 2013 , A real-time virtual production and motion capturing software, and Sketchbook … Read More
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Want to learn more about how to incorporate STEM into your curriculum? Perhaps you would like to encompass Gamification, 3D Modeling or Engineering Software into your lesson plans? If you are exploring these ideas, Studica offers some great education webinars that allow you to further your interest in STEM education. Here is the October schedule for educational webinars featuring exciting … Read More
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How do video games and STEM education fit together? STEM Education is the big thing right now for education. Society wants to encourage kids to get into the sciences so we can be a more cutting-edge workforce. As such, many administrators at schools all across the country are making many of their purchasing decisions based on whether or not something is viable for STEM or not
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