The Kerkythea software.

The development team of the Kerkythea software comes with this intro:
Kerkythea is a freeware software that can produce high quality renders without spending a cent on software licensing. Kerkythea is using physically accurate materials and lights, aiming for the best quality rendering in the most efficient timeframe, with target to simplify the task of quality rendering by providing the necessary tools to automate scene setup, such as staging using the GL real-time viewer, material editor, general/render settings, editors, etc., under a common interface
This software is available for all major platforms Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.
The software supports the following 3D File Formats: 3DS, OBJ, XML (Native KT format) and KZX (Zipped KT XML format).
You can find many videos about Kerkythea created by Hipolito Rodrigues.
You can download it from the official webpage.
The software is easy to use.
Open your model with File - Open and use Render - Start to render the output.
The final Rendered Image can change it with some colors settings: Tone Map, Exposure, Gamma, Dark, and Bright.
The Sun & Sky Wizard tool lets you fix it by Location, Zone, Year, Month, Day and Hour, Minute, Second.
The last setting of this tool is Sky Type.
The model object can be translated and rotated it.
Each object can have materials with many basic features and can be imported just like mat.zip type file.
I found some bugs:

1. the texture preview did not follow the changes by size;
2. the texture working area is hard to use;
3. the tools for animation and brush is unfinished;
4. the render network tool is unfinished;

In conclusion, this software is 88% completed by the development team.

Microsoft Azure Batch and Blender 3D addon .

You can use Azure Microsoft account to render your Blender 3D files.
First you need a Azure account. Download the Blender addon for azure from here.
Unzip the addon and copy the content of Blender.Client into addon folder.
I try to use the install option from Blender 3D - User Preferences but not working.
You need to use pip3 tool with python from Blender 3D.
Download the pip3 tool from here into python Blender 3D folder and run this commands:

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>python.exe get-pip.py
...
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1 setuptools-40.0.0 wheel-0.31.1

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>cd ..
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python>cd Scripts
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\Scripts>
pip3.exe install credentials
pip3.exe install azure-batch-apps

This will install the python modules for the Blender addon for Azure Microsoft.

Login with your Azure account and create your batch service:


I try to use a free account with $200 credit but the Azure Microsoft come with this note:
You cannot  use your Azure monetary commitment funds or subscription credits ...

About Google ARCore SDK .

This is a new feature of Google team and is named ARCore.
They tell us about the ARCore :

Introducing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experimenting with it right now. 

This feature work with : Android Studio , Unity and Unreal.
If you want to test it you can find the source code on github .

News: Blender 3D version 2.79 - the new Blender 2.8 Branch.

Today I tested the new Blender 2.8 Branch from version 2.79 of Blender 3D software and is working well.
The new branch come with the new render Eevee and many of old 2.79 features:

• Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
• Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
• Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.
• User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.
• Twenty Three new and several updated add-ons.
• And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!

Next is a screenshot of this release:

The 3D tool for home designer.

The RoomSketcher Home Designer is a powerful and incredibly easy to use floor plan and home design tool.
You can create your floor plan and draw your walls.
Then add windows and doors, furnish and decorate.
Also you can visualize in 3D and take snapshots of your work.
Visualize in 3D using snapshots, What you can get from this website:

• Create your plan
• Live 3D
• Awesome presentations

Tested: Sheep it Render Farm.

Today I used this render farm named: Sheep it Render Farm and they tells us:

What is a render farm?

A render farm is a group of computers connected together to complete a large task. In the case of 3D rendering, most of the time, a render farm will split frames of an animation to multiple computers, so instead of having a single computer who works for 100 days you can have 100 computers who will work for 1 day.

I tested this render solution and result come with free registration, free project adding and free rendering.
First the CPU and GPU from my laptop are supported.
You can selet only the GPU or CPU or both.
You can render project and will have credits and this is very important.
Why? Because you need to wait if you don't have credits - mode details FAQ.
You can take a look at status.
If you take a look at this status and the all result you can see how fast is working: 3316 frames per hour, time to complete render: 6h52m
I tested with one 250 frames with 60 frames/s Blender 3D file.

You can donate with PayPal, Bitcoin and Dogecoin here.

FurryBall 4

Regular version of FurryBall contains Standalone renderer, Network renderer and BOTH FREE Maya and Max plugin (still in Beta version). Regular licence is PERMANENT and NODE locked. At the moment FurryBall is Windows ONLY.

You can use with a free or can buy it from here.

Design your house online .

This is a good way to make your house of dream. Is simple and is free to do it.

The website have many tools to help you to create a beautifull house. Also you can see your house in a 3D enviroment.

The website with this feature is this.

See next video from youtube.