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Luxology Extends Research Agreement with UC Berkeley
modo Used as Primary 3D Prototyping Tool for Rapid Manufacturing of Full Scale Architectural Components
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – Sept. 7, 2011 – A research partnership just renewed between Luxology and UC Berkeley’s School of Architecture is pushing the boundaries of modo, Luxology’s innovative 3D modeling tool. This relationship with the Industry Alliances Office of University of California, Berkeley – in place since January 2009 – is pioneering novel applications of modo in architectural research, and opening up new creative possibilities in manufacturing and design.
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Credit: Rael San Fratello Architects, Dr. Mark Ganter (Solheim Additive Manufacturing Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department on the University of Washington), Artist Ehren Tool, Professor Richard Shaw (Berkeley), The Department of Art Practice at The University of California Berkeley, The Hellman Family Fund, Professor Claudia Ostertag (Berkeley), Luxology.
Description: Seat Slug Project: the world’s first concrete polymer 3D printed bench. Called the Seat Slug, the bench is constructed of nearly 250 unique parts, all designed in modo using a special material developed by Rael and his studio, Rael San Fratello Architects. Both visually arresting and comfortable, the Seat Slug will be on display for two years at San Francisco’s Fort Mason National Park, overlooking the upcoming America’s Cup race.
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Credit: Rael San Fratello Architects, Dr. Mark Ganter (Solheim Additive Manufacturing Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department on the University of Washington), Artist Ehren Tool, Professor Richard Shaw (Berkeley), The Department of Art Practice at The University of California Berkeley, The Hellman Family Fund, Professor Claudia Ostertag (Berkeley), Luxology.
Description: Seat Slug Project: the world’s first concrete polymer 3D printed bench. Called the Seat Slug, the bench is constructed of nearly 250 unique parts, all designed in modo using a special material developed by Rael and his studio, Rael San Fratello Architects. Both visually arresting and comfortable, the Seat Slug will be on display for two years at San Francisco’s Fort Mason National Park, overlooking the upcoming America’s Cup race.
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Credit: Rael San Fratello Architects, Dr. Mark Ganter (Solheim Additive Manufacturing Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department on the University of Washington), Artist Ehren Tool, Professor Richard Shaw (Berkeley), The Department of Art Practice at The University of California Berkeley, The Hellman Family Fund, Professor Claudia Ostertag (Berkeley), Luxology.
Description: Seat Slug Project: the world’s first concrete polymer 3D printed bench. Called the Seat Slug, the bench is constructed of nearly 250 unique parts, all designed in modo using a special material developed by Rael and his studio, Rael San Fratello Architects. Both visually arresting and comfortable, the Seat Slug will be on display for two years at San Francisco’s Fort Mason National Park, overlooking the upcoming America’s Cup race.
Luxology modo Added to EskoArtwork Packaging Supply Chain Laboratory at Clemson University’s Sonoco Institute
modo Software Becomes Primary Virtualization and Rendering Software for Packaging Science and Graphic Communications Curriculum
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – August 24, 2011 – Students at Clemson University’s Sonoco Institute are getting hands-on packaging design experience with a multimillion-dollar, state of the art computer lab equipped with the industry’s most innovative tools. As one of the key software applications used in Sonoco Institute’s industrial package design course, ‘PKGSC 220’, Luxology’s modo is helping students get an edge in the competitive design market.
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Description: The PACK Kit for Luxology modo is ideal for visualizing product families like this one from Gene Dupont, 3D Illustrator and Package Visualizer.
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Description: Visualizing packaging is made easier with the new Package Design and Construction Kit for modo 501 software. Image courtesy of Gene Dupont, 3D Illustrator and Package Visualizer.
Andy Brown demonstrates how to use modo 501 with the PACK Kit to quickly visualise plastic bottle packaging.
Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0
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VANCOUVER, B.C., – August 9, 2011 – Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd. was released to the public today, it was announced at ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Alembic is the computer graphics interchange format developed by the two entertainment giants last year and focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It was designed to handle massive animation data sets often required in high-end visual effects and animation, which are routinely developed and produced by companies such as Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Animation Ltd. and Sony Pictures Imageworks. The studios each saw the need for a tool like Alembic, something that would fit within existing pipelines and allow for customization at the facility level without impeding the ability to share work.
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Credit: modo screen shot by Alembic
Description: Alembic 1.0 is an Open Source exchange format that provides a standard for exchanging animated computer graphics scenes between content creation software packages. The computer graphics geometry shown here in the modo (by Luxology) user interface can also be transferred to other systems such as Houdini (by SideFX), Katana (by The Foundry) and Maya (by Autodesk) using Alembic.
Luxology Ships Model Bashing Kit for modo 501
Speeds Creation and Rapid Detailing of Spaceships, Instrument Panels and Futuristic/Industrial Models
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – July 27, 2011 – Even in the analog era prior to the advent of affordable computer workstations, model making with pre-manufactured plastic kits of planes, cars and boats was a popular hobby. “Kitbashing” was the term used for the practice of creating one-of-a-kind models out of components taken from multiple commercial kits. Luxology’s new Model Bashing Kit provides modo users with a similar capability to quickly construct highly detailed virtual forms for science fiction or industrial visualization projects.
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Description: Cockpit instrumentation created using the Model Bashing Kit.
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Description: What kind of moon base would you create with the Model Bashing Kit?
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Description: Spacecraft interior created with Luxology’s new Model Bashing Kit for modo.
This model literally took less than 3 minutes to create using the Model Bashing Kit.
Luxology Announces New Studio Environment Set 2 Kit
Includes Library of HDR Images for modo 501, MicroStation and Solidworks 2011 Users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – June 20, 2011 – Luxology announces Studio Environment Set 2 (SES 2) Kit, a new collection of high dynamic range (HDR) spherical images complete with ground planes that make it easy for users to obtain professional-quality studio lighting. The SES 2 Kit is designed for use with Luxology modo 501, Bentley Systems’ MicroStation and SolidWorks Premium and Professional 2011. Available now.
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Description: SES 2 was used by Jan Ove Rust to create the subtle environmental effects in this cutlery rendering.
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Credit: modo SES 2 image by Jan Ove Rust
Description: The same scene was rendered using a different SES 2 environmental setup. Here the table setting appears less saturated.
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Description: In this third variation, the SES 2 environment imbues a more stylized appearance to the cutlery rendering.
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Credit: SolidWorks SES 2 image by Rob Rodriguez
This shows the SES workflow in modo 501, including the supplied environmental assembly preset that lets you preview all 50 lighting setups in modo using the time slider and interactively adjust the rotation, saturation, brightness and scaling of the selected .HDR image. (SES 1 environment examples are shown in this video, but the workflow is identical in SES 2.)
Luxology's modo the Driving Force Behind Futuristic New Car
New Modeling and Rendering Capabilities Helped Engineering Firm Design+Industry Create Innovative Three-wheeled Speed “Trike”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – June 7, 2011 – Consumers are always looking for the “next big thing,” whether it be in food, celebrities or gadgets. Australian industrial design firm, Design+Industry, has recently given shape to what will undoubtedly be the next big thing in automotives: a three-wheeled, high-performance vehicle designed through technical ingenuity and the expert utilization of Luxology’s 3D modeling, painting and rendering software, modo 501.
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Twelve Meter Banner Depicting Hadrian's Wall Created with modo 501
Enhanced Rendering Speed and New Modeling Tools in Luxology’s modo 501 Helped Artist to Create Exciting New Exhibit at the Vindolanda Museum
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – May 9, 2011 – At a small museum in Northern England, a large project was being planned: an exhibition to envision the Roman Army’s construction of the world-famous landmark Hadrian’s Wall. Commissioned to create the massive and ambitious centerpiece for the exhibition, illustrator and 3D artist Barry Croucher turned to modo 501 to create the stunning final results.
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Credit: modo 501 image by Barry Croucher
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Credit: Photograph of banner created by Barry Croucher
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Credit: Photograph of banner created by Barry Croucher
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Credit: Photograph of image created by Barry Croucher
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Barry Croucher
Barry Croucher is a 3D artist specialising in wildlife and environmental illustration. Originally working in watercolour, he now works entirely digitally and mostly in 3D. He lives near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England. In this interview Barry discusses using modo to create images of marine life, sharks in particular, for a sophisticated book commissioned by Weldon Owen Australia.
Luxology Announces recoil Plug-in for Rigid Body Dynamics in modo 501
New Plug-in Incorporates Open Source Bullet Physics Engine into modo
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – April 27, 2011 – Luxology® LLC today announced the availability of recoil™, a new plug-in for modo® 501 that accurately simulates dynamic rigid body interactions. Based on the popular open source Bullet physics engine, which is used extensively within the games and film industries, recoil realistically simulates dynamic forces and calculates accurate collisions between objects.
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Meet Eric Soulvie, creator of the recoil Rigid-body Dynamics Plug-in for modo 501.
Eric Soulvie is an experienced 3D tools programmer based in Seattle, Washington. Eric has worked for Foundation Imaging (Roughnecks), ESC (The Matrix 2, 3), Blizzard Entertainment, Weta Digital (Avatar, Jumper, et. al. ) and many other production houses. Eric was also one of the original programmers on modo and used the modo Plug-in SDK to create the recoil Plug-in.
“One of the nice things about the modo SDK is you can create plug-in services that are new but that other plug-ins have access to...”
– Eric Soulvie
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Credit: modo 501 by Pascal Beeckmans
Brad Peebler, president and co-founder of Luxology, introduces recoil, the Rigid-body Dynamics Plug-in for modo 501, developed by Eric Soulvie.
Luxology Ships modo for SolidWorks Kit
New Kit Allows Users to Tap the Visualization Power of modo 501 for the Production of High-quality Presentations and Animations
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – April 19, 2011 – Today, Luxology is excited to announce a new tool that facilitates the use of the company’s award-winning modo® software for advanced visualization by SolidWorks users. The new modo for SolidWorks Kit simplifies the importation of SolidWorks models into modo while maintaining user interface conventions familiar to SolidWorks users.
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Credit: modo image by Paul McCrorey
“The training videos for the new modo SolidWorks kit are very informative. They give a good overview of modo and the SolidWorks kit. I feel pretty comfortable giving modo and the SolidWorks kit a whirl after viewing the videos. The workflow is logical to a SolidWorks user. The kit is extremely helpful with that. Default modo can be a bit overwhelming to an average SolidWorks user. Think you guys have a hit on your hands.”
– Anna Woods
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Luxology Offers Package Design Kit for modo
New Package Design and Construction Kit Accelerates Production of Computer-generated 3D Packaging Designs and Visualizations
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – March 11, 2011 – Luxology© LLC today announced the availability of the Package Design and Construction Kit (PACK), a new collection of over 200 2D and 3D presets, images and assemblies that simplify the creation of a wide variety of open and closed packaging containers. This extensive library of images will accelerate the design and visualization of packages in modo by package designers and computer graphic artists.
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Credit: modo 501 image by Gene Dupont
Description: The PACK Kit for Luxology modo is ideal for visualizing product families like this one from Gene Dupont, 3D Illustrator and Package Visualizer.
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Credit: modo 501 image by Gene Dupont
Description: Visualizing packaging is made easier with the new Package Design and Construction Kit for modo 501 software. Image courtesy of Gene Dupont, 3D Illustrator and Package Visualizer.
Eden Games Utilizes Luxology's modo on Recently Released Test Drive Unlimited 2
Innovative 3D Software modo Delivers High-quality Modeling and Rendering in New Massively Open Online Racing Game
GDC – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., – Feb. 28, 2011 – French game development studio, Eden Games, has recently used modo, Luxology’s 3D modeling, painting and rendering software, to help the company transform the multiplayer driving game genre with the company’s newest innovative and highly anticipated title, the action-packed release of Test Drive Unlimited 2 (TDU2).
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Credit: modo screen shot by Eden Games
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Credit: TDU2 game image by Eden Games
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Credit: modo screen shot by Eden Games
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Credit: TDU2 game image by Eden Games
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Unity to Provide Direct Import Capabilities for modo
Version 3.2 Imports 3D Data from Luxology modo Software through COLLADA Exporter
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – Feb. 14, 2011 – Unity 3.2, the popular game development tool, now natively imports modo 501 files that have been saved to Luxology’s .LXO format. Converted files are visible in the Project View inside of Unity.
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Credit: modo 501 screen shot by Wes McDermott
Description: Scene in modo 501, prior to export to Unity 3.2, the popular game development tool, via Luxology’s native .LXO format.
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Credit: Unity screen shot by Wes McDermott
Description: Unity 3.2, the popular game development tool, now natively imports modo 501 files that have been saved to Luxology’s .LXO format.
Luxology Announces LuxFolio Application for the iPad
New Stereoscopic Portfolio Provides Advanced 3D Viewing Options
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – Jan. 5, 2011 – Luxology® LLC today announced the immediate availability of the company’s new LuxFolio™ Stereoscopic Portfolio application, which allows users to view and present stereoscopic images on the iPad or a connected monitor with ease and flexibility. LuxFolio joins the LuxGallery application, which allows users to quickly and easily view and search for computer-generated images found in the company’s extensive Customer Image Gallery.
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Description: LuxFolio User Interface
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Description: Sweet Jump
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Description: Chocolate Splash
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Description: Tank
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Description: Double Drop
Luxology's modo 501 Offers Pixar Subdivision Surfaces
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – December 16, 2010 – Luxology today announced support for Pixar’s industry-standard Subdivision Surface (SDS) representation in the just-released modo 501. This new SDS geometry provides modo 501 users with several advantages including semi-sharp creasing, multi-res sculpting and greater file compatibility for transfer to other 3D applications.
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Credit: modo 501 and Maya comparison by Wes McDermott
Description: The new FBX based on FBX2010.2 can exchange the semi-sharp crease data on Pixar Subdivision surfaces between modo and Maya, 3ds max.
“As a test, I exported a tire to Maya 2011 and it matches with modo perfectly. All of the edge weights are imported as well and are editable. This just perfects my modo to Maya pipeline. I’m so happy and will now do the dance of joy....done!”
– Wes McDermott
Luxology Delivers New Version of 3D Software modo 501
Offers Increased Rendering Speed, Ray-traced Viewports, Multi-res Sculpting and Plug-in Opportunities for Third Party Development
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., – December 16, 2010 – Luxology® LLC today announced modo® 501, which offers substantial improvements in modeling and sculpting functionality, rendering speed (30-40% faster), ray-traced viewports and an introductory release on 64-bit Mac OS X. modo 501’s enhanced toolset delivers increased productivity and performance for 3D artists working in a variety of disciplines, including media and entertainment, game development, engineering and architectural design visualization, and CGI for print.
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Description: Here is an example of a new supplied material in modo 501 called Worn Edges.
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Description: The new Schematic viewport in modo 501 provides a canvas on which you can construct and view complex animation relationships (rigs) as shown in this screen capture.
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Description: New presets and materials are supplied specifically to assist in sculpting.
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Description: In this car example, you can see how the new RayGL™ viewport rendering mode helps you visualise the ray-traced view of your scene. It updates as you move, model or sculpt objects in your scene while maintaining near final rendered quality.
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