WHO ARE WE?
With a national coverage model including points of sale in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, 3vis is the largest Media & Entertainment reseller in Canada that supplies 3D software for the video game, film, television and architecture industries. 3vis, certified as an Autodesk Premier Solution Provider (PSP), offers a wide range of Autodesk products and complementary solutions.
3vis is the only reseller to offer a complete services package. 3vis Service Center provides specialized solutions and adapted services to ensure your company’s success.
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NEWS
> 3vis Team Raised $2,125 for Prostate Cancer Challenge
The "3vis GOT STACHES TEAM" participated in the Movember movement for Prostate Cancer. They grew mustaches for the month of November and raised $2,125. The 3vis principals, Sylvain, John, David and Stephan would like to thank all that have donated to this cause!
The funds raised go directly to Prostate Cancer Canada.
We also invite you to have a look at our final moustaches here.
Again, thank you all for your support!
Movember Website
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> GenArts Acquires Wondertouch
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 GenArts is pleased to announce that it has acquired Wondertouch, including particle Illusion and all related products and technologies. In addition, Alan Lorence, the CEO and Founder of wondertouch has joined the GenArts team as a Senior Engineer where he will help lead the software development for particleIllusion and for GenArts particles technology broadly. For more information, read the press release and FAQ.
Genarts Website
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> Reveal Techniques and Autodesk University
 Autodesk University is an annual conference where all Autodesk products are represented. More than 600 classes are given by speakers from the industry who teach classes on very specific subjects for which they are world class experts.
Louis Marcoux from Autodesk made available online on his blog a series of tutorials. The videos are from a class he gave at Autodesk University in 2007. The class was about animation techniques to reveal models over time. Various techniques were covered and he gave a few examples in the class. Please note that they have been recorded in 2007 but were never made public.
Visit Louis Marcoux’ blog for more tutorials.
The Area Website
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PRODUCTS
> New Authorization: Luxology Products
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 modo 401
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative environment.
modo delivers the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering in a single integrated and accelerated package for the Mac and PC. And now, modo is a true end-to-end solution that includes true 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering! More than just features, modo is a truly elegant integration of technology, raw horsepower and refined workflow.
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 imageSynth
Create seamless tiled images up to 10 times faster.
imageSynth 2 is an advanced technology that allows you to create seamless textures and high-resolution tiled images from low resolution sources. It’s the ultimate organic pattern making tool for creating infinitely tileable images — a "must have" for every artist’s digital tool box.
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 Developer Tools
Luxology offers different levels of Developer resources.
Luxology Developer Tools include Nexus®, our cross-platform, media-aware architecture for rapid deployment of 2D and 3D authoring and visualization applications. It’ the underlying technology used to develop modo software.
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Luxology Website
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> Turtle 5.0 Introduced to the World
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 Turtle 5.0’s redesigned global illumination algorithms brought substantial productivity boosts along with improved visual quality.
A range of other new features were also included, such as the streamlined user interface, that provides much easier handling of Turtle attributes, and a unified workflow for surface transfers and texture/vertex baking. Performance was specially optimized for global illumination calculations, which together with the new adaptive anti-aliasing scheme allows for superfast previews as well as very high quality images. Turtle 5.1 will be available in the next few weeks.
To check out what’s new in Turtle 5.0 and its technical specifications, click here.
Illuminate Labs Website
For more details or to request a quote, please send us an email at sales@3vis.com.
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> Maya 2010 Standalone Users: Upgrade to Maya 2010 Network and get 5 mental ray® for Maya Batch Rendering Nodes
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 Autodesk® Maya® 2010 software is the first software release to unify the Maya 2009 feature set, advanced matchmoving capabilities and Maya Composite high dynamic range compositing system into a single affordable offering. Also included for a complete creative workflow, are five additional mental ray® for Maya batch* rendering nodes, and the Autodesk® Backburner™** software network render queue manager. With five additional mental ray for Maya batch rendering nodes, each Maya seat now enables artists to use other networked computers to render their sequences faster. The Backburner network render queue manager is included to help those with smaller rendering pipelines manage the process; larger facilities can integrate the additional mental ray for Maya nodes with their existing render management software.
Upgrade your Maya 2010 Standalone license to Autodesk Maya 2010 Network and get 5 mental ray® for Maya Batch nodes for $875 US.
*Feature only available with network license.
** Feature only available for Windows 32-bit / 64-bit and Linux 64-bit operating systems.
For more details or to request a quote, please send us an email at sales@3vis.com.
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PROMOS
> Escape Studios: Free Online Training with Maya, 3ds Max & 3ds Max Design!
 Register to access your free
advanced lighting tutorial today
To produce convincing 3D and visual effects work, you need great lighting skills and an understanding of the various methods used in post-production. This advanced lighting tutorial will give you the creative and technical skills needed to illuminate your scenes with sophisticated lighting techniques.
Tutorial Breakdown
- Theory on Gobo’s & Cookies
- Step by Step Still Life Set-Up
- Lights & Manipulating Attributes
- Implementation of Gobo’s & Cookies to Simulate Off Screen Environment
- Alternative Example of Lighting Set-Up
Escape Studios Website.
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> V-Ray and Pdplayer Bundle Promotion
 
About Pdplayer
Pdplayer is a professional image sequence player and viewer for the 3D, CG and VFX industry, created by Asynthetic and distributed by Chaos Software
It supports most industry standard file formats including EXR, HDR, DPX, CIN, TGA, SGI, IFF, PIC and VRIMG. Multiple layers can be color-corrected and composed together in real time. The 64 bit (x64) version is not limited to 2GB or 4GB and can use all the available RAM as cache.
Promotion Available only from December 1st, 2009 till January 15, 2010.
- 2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + Pdplayer for $1149. Save $224.
- 2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for Maya + Pdplayer for $1149. Save $224.
- 3 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + V-Ray RT + Pdplayer for $1339. Save $333.
Chaosgroup Website.
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> Autodesk: Student to Commercial Upgrade Program Available
 The Autodesk Education Community is designed to help students. Autodesk and its partners provide important benefits to qualified students, including student licenses of software, online training, discussion forums and access to professionals and technology experts. The Autodesk Graduating Student Employer Discount Program is an extension of the Autodesk Education Community, and provides discounts on new licenses of select Autodesk® products to employers that hire graduating student members of the Autodesk Education Community, or Autodesk Education Community student members that have a need for a commercial license of Autodesk® software to perform work.
Educational to Commercial upgrades are now available for the following products:
For more details or to request a quote, please send us an email at sales@3vis.com.
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EVENTS
> DEC 15: Autodesk Webcast: Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST)
Keynote Speaker: Lee Fraser
 The products offered in the Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite provide artists and production facilities with access to a complete range of creative tools at significant cost savings. This webinar will show you the full range of what is possible with these tools.
This webinar will show you the benefits of the expanded tool-set of the Autodesk® Maya® Entertainment Creation Suite.
You will see how to track footage in Autodesk® MatchMover®. This footage and the resulting camera can then be brought directly into Autodesk® Maya® 2010 where 3D elements such as vegetation, vehicles, and characters can be incorporated.
As a final step we go back to Maya for rendering and Maya Composite for compositing.
Info & Registration
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> DEC 16: Autodesk Webcast: Autodesk 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST)
Keynote Speaker: Mark Noland
 The products offered in the Autodesk® 3ds Max® Entertainment Creation Suite provide artists and production facilities with access to a complete range of creative tools at significant cost savings.
This webinar will show you the benefits of the expanded tool-set of the Autodesk 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite. Raw motion capture will be brought into Autodesk® MotionBuilder® where it is easily cleaned up and edited together. The resulting animation can then be brought into Autodesk® 3ds Max® for further animation. With our character in 3ds Max, we can then export out the character’s head to Autodesk® Mudbox™ to create morph targets for animation. We will bring this all back into 3ds Max for final animation and rendering using the Autodesk interchange format FBX.
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> JAN 27 - FEB 1: SPARK FX 10
January 27 - February 1, 2010
Vancouver, BC
 SPARK FX 2010: 10 films, 15 speakers and panels, 1 party and hundreds of industry attendees. With a mission to ignite creative and collaborative fire, Vancouver ACM SIGRAPH presents SPARK FX ’10. In its third year, this prestigious week-long speaker series, educational forum and film festival informs and inspires professionals, pioneers and enthusiasts in the world of visual effects. Through panels and presentations, attendees will gain insight into the evolution and latest techniques of the industry, as well as exposure to recent and leading artistic and technological advancements.
Mark your calendars and break out your sci-fi costumes - the party starts January 27, 2010. See you there!
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For more details or to send general comments, please send us an email at marketing@3vis.com.
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