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joi, 30 noiembrie 2017

The appleseed version 1.8.0 - beta released.

The appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects and is developed by a small team from VFX industry.
The day of November 28, 2017 come with this news: We’re proud to announce the release of appleseed 1.8.0-beta, the eighth release of our beta program and the 31th release since the first alpha in July 2010.
This tool supports:
  • fully programmable shading via Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Open Shading Language (OSL);
  • RGB/spectral/mixed rendering;
  • fast and robust transformation and deformation motion blur;
  • state-of-the-art ray traced subsurface scattering;
  • exhaustive Python and C++ APIs;
  • ... and many other production-oriented features.

You can read more on official website.
The next video from official vimeo channel is an old basic tutorial of appleseed software.