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modo 401 on sale for $99!
$50 off normal academic price of $149.
Offer good through 9/15/2010.

Link via Luxology Community

From the Luxology Community Member Profile for Barnaby Cunning:

The LEGO House was a full-sized house built in the summer of 2009 using approximately 3.5 million regular LEGO bricks as part of James May’s Toy Stories, a television series produced by Plum Pictures for the BBC.

According to Barnaby Gunning, the designer of the house:

I was approached by Plum Pictures, the production company for the entire series, after they had already ordered the LEGO for the house but before that had actually received any of it. So that I could get moving on the design as quickly as possible I made a quick virtual LEGO set in modo and used this to build models of basic components that could be made up using several hundred LEGO pieces each. modo made it easy for me to explain how these should be made so that we could get prototype components made for testing and so that we could get the general public to make them in their thousands.

modo 401 1-year license is available at an educational discount price of $139.

Link via MicroFilmmaker Magazine

The level of polish I commented on in my previous review of modo 302 continues to improve with the latest release. Luxology continues to add carefully crafted feature sets and capabilities to its flagship modo 401. For Microfilmmakers requiring photorealism for environments or adding objects to existing footage, modo 401’s improved real-time rendering, new replicators for creating duplicate objects effortlessly, hair/fur and new animation features are a welcome expansion. Combine those with a stellar final rendering capability and modifying your personal reality has never been easier.

If you think you’ll be using green/blue screen shots and dropping in believable environments of your own creation, modo may be an ideal fit.

modo 401 Mac/Windows 1-year license (download version) is available at an education discount price of $139.

Link via Luxology.com

3D artists everywhere are applauding the just-announced GoZ™ for modo feature from Pixologic, which improves the workflow between ZBrush, Pixologic’s premiere organic sculpting and texture tool, and modo, the 3D modeling, painting and rendering software from Luxology®. Luxology and Pixologic worked closely together to optimize the mesh geometry transfer between these two computer graphics applications to give users a more seamless and combined workflow.

“GoZ for modo opens new opportunities and maximizes workflows for artists and designers from all backgrounds,” said Brad Peebler, president and co-founder of Luxology. “By bringing these two modern 3D applications together through GoZ, modo and ZBrush users will experience a significant increase in time savings and efficiency.”

ZBrush is available at an education discount price of $390.

modo 401 Mac/Windows 1-year license is available at an education discount price of $139.

Link via Creation Engine

With a focus on rendering and animation enhancements, modo 401 delivers a wealth of new features and innovative workflows, which enable users to easily model on top of existing geometry, see changes in their scene immediately from the radically improved Preview renderer and efficiently re-use assets throughout the content creation process. These new features benefit customers in a broad array of disciplines such as architectural visualization, product design, game development and advertising image production.

modo 401 Mac/Windows 1-year license (download version) is available at an education discount price of $139.

modo 401 Mac/Windows 1-year license (download version, lab floating license) is available at an education discount price of $169.

Link via Designer Today

I think I just found my new favorite 3D application. I’ve been a long-time user of 3ds max, Lightwave and several other 3D tools, and I will have to say that modo 302 blows them all out of the water (literally).

Modo 302, is easy to use, very intuitive and the learning curve is minimal for seasoned 3D modelers and artists.

Luxology recently released the 302 version and I can say without a doubt that modo will become my most often used 3D application.

After installing modo 302 on both my Windows and Macintosh OS X workstations I found that modo works well on both and is, as far as I can see, exactly the same under both operating systems. This is a definite plus in my book. Working in modo came natural once I become familiar with the user interface.

modo 302 MAC/WIN 1-year license (download version) is available at an academic discount price of $149.

An amazing time-lapse modeling session showing the creation of a little character in modo has been posted by Hiroshi Yoshii, who is a famous graphics designer in Japan. This prolific and talented artist has customers all over the world and has recently built 150 characters using modo. Check the video here and see a collection of his many characters here.

modo 302 MAC/WIN 1-year license (download version) is available at an academic discount price of $149.

Link via Luxology

Spring Ahead with modo Training Materials. This is your source for modo training videos. We’re adding new training videos on modo 302 every week. Learning 3D and modo has never been more convenient.

modo 302 is available at an academic discount price of $149.

What‘s New in modo 302

A free update to modo now provides even more functionality and enhancements to modo’s artist friendly workflow. modo 302 contains many more improvements than we can list here! A complete list of changes can be found in the comprehensive modo 302 Improvements document.

modo is available at an academic discount price of $149.

By David Basulto
Digital Media Online

During my trip to Las Vegas last month for the always fun yet exhausting NABshow, my good pal and fellow DMNite, Ko Maruyama, called me on the cell. “Meet me at the Art Beats booth” he said. I hurried over there expecting some great content or an interview with Art Beats folks. That was not to happen. Ko grabbed my arm and said “Follow me we have to meet with Brad Peebler”. Cool. But who is Brad Peebler, I thought. Little did I know I was on my way to meet one of the coolest guys on the planet.
For those not lucky enough to go to NAB let me say this; it’s a pulsing, loud, vibrant arena of the latest and greatest gear for media professionals. Its often difficult to hear someone who is directly in front of your face. Its been sort of a Mecca for me as I love this stuff. So as Ko had me follow him outside the convention center I wondered, where the heck is he taking me?

The awaiting limo was a welcome for the dog tired feet I had. Inside was the man himself, Brad Peebler. Brad is the President and Co-Founder of Luxology. If ever there was a man with a huge charisma yet no obnoxious ego it is he.

The presentation we received about Luxology’s Modo product was outstanding enough for a neophyte like myself to go out and get the awesome 3D modeling software and try it out. What I found out is that Modo is extremely easy to learn and between the support and the ravenous community of users it is easy to get hooked! What we were shown that day was hush hush news about the upcoming Modo 301!

The good news? I was able to get Brad on today’s show to tell us all about Modo 301! That and some really great stories. I hope you enjoy.

DMN Podcast: An Interview with Luxology’s Brad Peebler