Another new AI from Two Minute Papers.

Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering is a new differentiable neural rendering pipeline for scene refinement and novel view synthesis see the official page and the video from Two Minute Papers.

Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement from Two Minute Papers.

This is a unoffical implementation about Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement(SR3) by Pytorch.

There are some implement details with paper description, which maybe different with actual SR3 structure due to details missing.

We used the ResNet block and channel concatenation style like vanilla DDPM.

We used the attention mechanism in low resolution feature(16×16) like vanilla DDPM.

We encoding the $\gamma$ as FilM strcutrue did in WaveGrad, and embedding it without affine transformation.

Read more on the GitHub project.

Unity 3D : Unity for Humanity Summit 2021.

On October 12, 2021, we held the second annual Unity for Humanity Summit to connect, learn, and get inspired. This fully virtual, one-day summit celebrated creators around the world who are using real-time 3D (RT3D) to make a positive impact on society and the planet.

Unreal Engine and Aaron Sims Creative .

... The final frames were entirely rendered in Unreal Engine 5, with assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace for ambient effects—such as dust and particles; sky and clouds; and smoke—adding the finishing touches.

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Created in just six weeks with Unreal Engine 5 Early Access, MetaHuman Creator, and a small team of artists, THE EYE: CALANTHEK is an enigmatic and suspenseful short film by Aaron Sims Creative. The alien character from the film, Teuthisan, is now available to download for use in UE5 Early Access free of charge...

As part of the project, Aaron Sims Creative is making the alien, whom they named Teuthisan—derived from the Ancient Greek for ‘squid’—available to download for use in Unreal Engine 5 Early Access free of charge.

Elastic Simulations from Two Minute Papers.

... other simulations from Two Minute Papers.

This youtube channel comes with old and news and pieces of information about graphics.

Ships, Splashes, and Waves on a Vast Ocean from Two Minute Papers.

The simulation of large open water surface is challenging using a uniform volumetric discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations. Simulating water splashes near moving objects, which height field methods for water waves cannot capture, necessitates high resolutions. Such simulations can be carried out using the Fluid-Implicit-Particle (FLIP) method. However, the FLIP method is not efficient for the long-lasting water waves that propagate to long distances, which require sufficient depth for a correct dispersion relationship. This paper presents a new method to tackle this dilemma through an efficient hybridization of volumetric and surface-based advection-projection discretizations. We design a hybrid time-stepping algorithm that combines a FLIP domain and an adaptively remeshed Boundary Element Method (BEM) domain for the incompressible Euler equations. The resulting framework captures the detailed water splashes near moving objects with the FLIP method, and produces convincing water waves with correct dispersion relationships at modest additional costs.

Martial arts from Two Minute Papers.

The paper "Neural Animation Layering for Synthesizing Martial Arts Movements" is available here.

Freebie - Confident Talk from iClone version 7.9 .

New Confident Talk from iClone version 7.9 can be downloaded now from this webpage.

This classic cartoon motion was created by professional animators using key-frame animation techniques. The motion is great for different social scenarios in cartoon style. If you like the quality of this motion, then also check out the male and female packs of the Act and Move series.

Freebie format: .iMotionPlus

Compatible with: IC v7.9

Blender 3D : Grease Pencil Samples.

You can see here many free samp created with this tool.

News : Blender 3.0 Alpha version.

A short intro from the official youtube channel of askNK.

You can download and test it from here.

Let's see this video.

Cartoon Animator new features.

From version 4.5, Cartoon Animator supports both transparent video (MOV) and image sequence (PNG) export, while providing useful features such as exporting selected items for fast video compositing, Fit-to-Object-Size output for optimized video editing, and much more. This update allows video makers to easily add visual effects to animated items, along with compositing 2D animation with video on all major video editors.

SCANimate animatable avatar.

We present SCANimate, an end-to-end trainable framework that takes raw 3D scans of a clothed human and turns them into an animatable avatar. These avatars are driven by pose parameters and have realistic clothing that moves and deforms naturally. SCANimate does not rely on a customized mesh template or surface mesh registration...

Craftsmanspace - 3D resources.

The website is intended for artisans, students, hobbyists, enthusiasts, students, engineers, i.e., anyone interested in areas such as woodworking, metalworking, graphic design, decorating, 3D modeling, 3D printing, CNC manufacturing, etc. Craftsmanspace website is intended for all who want to create, decorate and learn; it is intended primarily for beginners, but also for professionals who will surely find useful information on our site. Initially, we had the idea to offer you only free projects for making all kinds of things, but it happened that some time later we started to draw various patterns that could serve to decorate the objects you made, as well as 3D models for those who wanted to make something on their CNC machines or 3D printers. We have also made collections of free software and collections of free books in various technical fields. In this way, Craftsmanspace website has become a meaningful whole – here, anyone who wants to create something in their workshop can come up with new ideas on what to do and how to do it.

You can find and use all of there resources on the official website.

Blender 3D : FaceBuilder from keentools.

This keentools webpage providde many tools for users.

One of these is the FaceBuilder tool for Blender 3D software.

FaceBuilder​ is an add-on for Blender for 3D-modelling of human faces and heads based on photos. With FaceBuilder you don’t need to be an experienced 3D modeler to create a quality 3D model with clean topology. You start with getting a few photos of a person from different angles of view and then place a model on each of them to build a head or a face model. The 3D models can be later used for sculpting, animation, tracking or anything else in Blender or exported into a file and imported into any other 3D software.

Let's see the install step from the official youtube channel:

... and these videos with this tool:

Unreal Engine 5 and Nanite.

Nanite, is a virtualized micropolygon geometry system that will enable you to create games with massive amounts of geometric detail.

Blender 3D : addons from Chris Jones.

Chris Jones make a good job with Blender 3D addons.
You can see on the YouTube channel some example with these addons.
Let's see one example:

AI-Based from Two Minute Papers.

An example of effects created using artificial intelligence from Two Minute Papers.

NVIDIA Developer channel and Blender 3D.

The NVIDIA Developer youtube channel comes with this great intro for Blender3D software and RTX features.
Blender is an open-source 3D software package that comes with the Cycles Renderer. Cycles is already a GPU enabled path-tracer, now super-charged with the latest generation of RTX GPUs.
Furthering the rendering speed, RTX AI features such as the Optix Denoiser infers rendering results for a truly interactive ray tracing experience.
To try it yourself and learn more about NVIDIA RTX accelerated denoising inside of the Blender viewport, visit https://www.blender.org/download/rele...

About ZBrush 2021 3D software.

ZBrush 2021 comes with many features like the Dynamics system.
This along with Controlled Cloth Sculpting and a revisiting of our Dynamic Subdivision feature.
A new feature to ZModeler, as well as introducing iMage 3D support to ZBrush.
This gives the ability to open native-format files created by ZBrushCoreMini.
The ZBrush engine itself has also been enhanced, finding ways to improve performance across the board.
The ZBrush 2021 sculpts more fluidly, as well as taking less time to perform other operations such as DynaMesh.
The price starts from $39.95 / Month, $179.95 / 6 Months, and $895 for SINGLE USER PERPETUAL LICENSE*.
The next video from askNK - youtube channel show us some of these features.

News: Blender released Alpha version 2.91.0 .

Yesterday, 23.07.2020 the Blender 3D team launched the Alpha version 2.91.0 of the well-known Blender 3D graphics program.
You can find it here.
The team completed the launch in the characteristic style with a joint meeting on the official youtube channel, see: