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Painting Painter Update Corel has unveiled Corel Painter 11, the latest version of its painting and illustra- tion software, which boasts more than 40 new and enhanced features. Painter 11 enables artists to expand their digital tool set with such advanced painting and natural media utilities as new pressure- sensitive brushes, enhanced drawing tools, and customizable media. Users can create and customize brushes and media variants, as well as tap new artistic media, hard media brushes, and selection tools. Improved color management, the ability to undo brushstrokes and other effects, enhanced brush performance, and increased responsiveness round out Version 11. Now available, Corel Painter 11 is priced at $399 for the full version and $199 for the upgrade. Corel; www.corel.com, www.painterfactory.com CaD Certified for Inventor Okino Computer Graphics is now shipping software products that have received Autodesk Inventor 2010 Certifi- cation. Okino's Autodesk Inventor solution enables users to transfer crack-free geom- etry, hierarchy, and materials from native disk-based Autodesk Inventor files, or from a running copy of Autodesk Inventor directly into any Okino data conversion- compliant application. Users can import complete assemblies from a running copy of Autodesk Inventor, or from native .iam and .ipt files on disk, without requiring a local copy of Inventor. The Inventor CAD importer is a component of the Okino CAD/Pack add-on license. The Okino CAD/Pack is priced at $245. Okino Computer Graphics; www.okino.com Plug-in Tentacles for TrueSpace TurboSquid has released Tentacles, a 3D software plug-in for use with Calig- ari TrueSpace 3D modeling software. Tentacles is an Adobe Flash-based plug-in that infuses 3D applications with the Turbo- Squid online library and purchasing. Users can browse, compare, and purchase 3D content, such as models, textures, and mocap data, within their 3D programs. For the first time, users of the new version can publish their TrueSpace creations for sale on TurboSquid.com, also from within Tentacles or TrueSpace. Furthermore, users can save media, materials, and models with free online storage, create secure and shareable workspaces, and manage their content library, without leav- ing the 3D application. Tentacles is free and available now as a stand-alone tool or a plug-in for Caligari's TrueSpace, Maxon's Cinema 4D, and Autodesk's 3ds Max, Maya, and Softimage XSI. TurboSquid; www.turbosquid.com Caligari; www.caligari.com MoDeling You to Go in 3D Big Stage Entertainment has opened its proprietary 3D facial modeling system to third parties for integration into video games, virtual worlds, Web sites, mobile applications, and kiosk-based systems. PortableYou enables third parties to offer a consumer experience that features an animated, 3D likeness of a user to enhance everything from entertainment to communi- cations and retail. Customers can create a sophisticated 3D model of their face in less than two minutes using one to three photos from a standard digital camera. The Portable- You system includes APIs, code samples, methods, and reference libraries. Big Stage Entertainment; www.bigstage.com ShaDerS Shady Software Mental Images revealed that an updat- ed beta version of the Mental Mill Artist Edition shader creation tool is bundled with Nvidia's FX Composer 2.5. The Mental Mill Artist Edition's intuitive graphi- cal interface enables artists, designers, and shader developers to create, test, and maintain shaders with real-time feedback and without any programming. This latest version boasts enhanced GUI navigation, improved preview render- ing, new shaders, and user-controlled compiler and export options. Mental Mill and Nvidia FX Composer 2.5 can be used to create shaders for HLSL, Collada FX, and CgFX in DirectX and OpenGL. Nvidia FX Composer 2.5, which includes Mental Mill Artist Edition, is available for download from www.fxcomposer.com. Mental images; www.mentalimages.com Nvidia; www.nvidia.com For additional product news and information, visit CGW.com April 2009 WIN MAC WIN SOFTWARE 46 April 2009, Volume 32, Number 4: COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD (USPS 665-250) (ISSN-0271-4159) is published monthly (12 issues) by COP Communications, Inc. Corporate offices: 620 West Elk Avenue, Glendale, CA 91204, Tel: 818-291-1100; FAX: 818-291-1190; Web Address: info@copprints.com. Periodicals post- age paid at Glendale, CA, 91205 & additional mailing offices. COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD is distributed worldwide. Annual subscription prices are $72, USA; $98, Canada & Mexico; $150 International airfreight. To order subscriptions, call 847-559-7310. © 2009 CGW by COP Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without permission. 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