Monster Mash online tool for 3D.

The development team come for this online 3D tool with this intro:

Monster Mash is a new sketch-based modeling and animation tool that allows you to quickly sketch a character, inflate it into 3D, and promptly animate it. You can perform all interactions in the sketching plane. No 3D manipulation is required.

This tool come with three basic steps and modes of creation: Draw, Inflate, and Animate.

Just draw and use these steps.

You can find many tutorials on youtube, let's see one example:

News : CopperCube 6.5 released.

CopperCube 6.5 was just released for Windows and Mac on 2 December 2021.

You can see all new changes on the official webpage.

You can see a good video from the Gamefromscratch youtube channel.

News : Blender release version 3.0 .

Today, 3December 2021, Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.

You can see all features reel showcase on the oficial youtube channel:

Simulating A Virtual World from Two Minute Papers.

This is a simulation of a virtual word build with The paper "Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems" is available here:

The Captain from Epic Games.

Find your way home across the galaxy in this excellent comedy adventure game by our friends at Sysiac Games. Every encounter along the way has multiple endings. Collect new friends. Make new enemies! The decisions are all up to you. You are... The Captain!

See the official trailer from youtube channel:

Resources and 3D models - 001.

You can find many resources on web, in this article I will share a link to this user named Crazy31139.

You can find many 3D models, like Robocup, Rambo, and characters from many games.

CodePen: ... challenges every time.

This website comes with challenges all the time, see this week example:

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE,Book Text ...Your challenge: Give this book excerpt some tasteful text styles.

Here's what I managed to do for this week:

CodePen: How can share sketchfab 3D models.

The Viewer API lets you build web apps on top of Sketchfab’s 3D viewer. With the API, you can control the viewer in JavaScript. It provides functions for starting, stopping the viewer, moving the camera, taking screenshots and more.

See the official webpage.

Ubisoft: Elite Vigil Trailer.

Chul Kyung’s quiet lethality in the field allows him to rely on his Electronic Rendering Cloak (ERC-7) to remain undetected. The ERC-7 uses Diminished Reality technology to remove perceivable stimuli from its direct environment. Vigil carries a prototype in his backpack, which scans surrounding electronic devices and wipes his image from any cameras in view.

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.

News : The new NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar technology platform.

NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar, a technology platform for generating interactive AI avatars. Omniverse Avatar connects the company’s technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines and simulation technologies. Avatars created in the platform are interactive characters with ray-traced 3D graphics that can see, speak, converse on a wide range of subjects, and understand naturally spoken intent.

SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering by Brian Karis.

Brian Karis is an Engineering Fellow in graphics at Epic Games. Most recently he has led the development of Nanite for UE5. He is most known for work on physically based shading and temporal anti-aliasing although has touched most areas of real-time computer graphics throughout his career. Prior to Epic he worked at Human Head Studios.