Renderosity News

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Gallery of the Week is the Backgrounds Gallery. This gallery looks at what is usually in the background of scenes. Although not a large gallery the work is still very well done. Be sure to watch the video which features 10 works from the Backgrounds Gallery.
Rhiannon's Store Sale & New Release. Rhiannon's store is up to 60% off & New Release at 50% off. Sale valid till 11:59 pm (cdt) Monday, August 5th.

Artist of the Month for August - afsinatre. Afsinatre lives and works in Turkey. His art is passionate and full of vibrant color and scenes. We are working on an interview with him and will post soon. Please visit his gallery in the mean time.
Vendor of the Month is Santuziy78. Congratulations to top-selling vendor Santuziy78 whose store is filled with great 3D figure assets. Be sure to visit Santuziy78's store and stay tuned for an interview.

Renderosity Magazine News

Read Ricky's daily posts on Siggraph this last week. This great conference is filled with interesting computer graphics news and people. Check out his daily photo galleries as well.
Autodesk announces Bifrost for Maya. A new visual programming environment in Maya where you can create your own custom effects and share them with other artists.
Maxon announces major reworking of how they will make Cinema 4D available to users. They are moving to a subscription service through their website (don't worry they are keeping the perpetual license as well). In addition they will only release one version of Cinema 4D. Maxon also announced some excellent technical updates to the new Cinema 4D R21 coming in September.
Ton Roosendaal received Open Source award at Jon Peddie press luncheon. Long overdue, Ton was honored for his work build Blender and contributing to the growing use of Open Source tools. He have a marvelous speech which was witty and honest. Congratulations, Ton!