NEWS OF THE WEEK FOR March 27, 2017

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Renderosity News

Gallery of the week is Food Genre. Although a small genre at Renderosity (just over 350 posts), the Food Genre is filled with excellent art especially in Photography and Fractals. The more time you spend in this genre the more interesting it becomes.
Blacksmith3D Subscriptions Available Soon. Many of our Blacksmith3D PRO-6 FREE TRIAL users tell us that they love our software, but it is just too costly for those on tight budgets. So, we are happy to announce that there will soon be an additional payment option to use our Blacksmith3D PRO-6 with a low monthly licensing fee. Subscriptions are not required, it is simply an alternative payment method which comes with the following perks for just $5.95 setup fee and $8.95 a month.
Rhiannon: All-Around Vendor for 2016 Award Sale. Rhiannon's store on sale now through 11:59 pm on Tuesday, March 28th at 60% OFF!! HERE
Fabiana NEW Release - SNEW release - Shader Plan - Iray Glitter Shaders and G3F Materials by fabiana!! This product will be 35% OFF NOW through 11:59 pm (CST) Wednesday, March 29th ONLY. As an added BONUS her entire store will also be 35% OFF for that same time period. Click below to see ALL of fabiana's products.

Renting or Buying; Which one is best for you? From Maxon's Cinema 4D blog, comes and interesting article on the benefits and disadvantages of renting/buying software.
[Reallusion Character Creator 2.0 Launches. Reallusion's excellent Character Creator software is now in version 2.0 with enhanced visual quality for 3D characters with industry standard PBR shaders, Image Based Lighting options, and a new Substance Material Generator to dynamically design high-quality 3D characters and appearances.

Let's Build a Workstation PC! Part 5: Overclock, Testing and Final Thoughts. The final entry in gToon's workstation build series. He goes over how to overclock the CPU, share's basic testing results and sums up his final thoughts on the build and its cost.
Modular Power Supplies. M.D. McCallum discusses how new modular power supplies have distinct advantages for powering VR and graphics cards, if you take the time to understand how they work and plan ahead.