NEWS OF THE WEEK for June 25, 2018

Splash image: Golden Core by Teufelseinhorn

Renderosity News

Gallery of the Week - Objects Gallery. Photography is the what most artists are using to post in this gallery, but there is a lot of 2D and even fractal art. Objects of all kinds is the theme. An underrated gallery with lots of interesting work.
Vote for the July Artist of the Month. 6 artists nominated from several 3D modeling galleries. Please view each artists work and then vote for ONE!
Animation Contest: The Gamer's Most Epic Cutscene. The contest will close August 27th 2018. Winners will be chosen by Renderosity Staff & Admin. We will be posting each entry on our facebook page to get help from our community on who should win. Click Here to learn more about entering today!

Review: Rebelle 3 feels like a real studio in your digital hands by Barbara Din. This year, Escape Motions released Rebelle 3, with more tools and lots of enhancements, including their stellar watercolor simulation and a new DropEngine for better watercolor drips. Read Barbara's thumbs up review!
Tutorial: How to use Basic Texture Maps for Realistic Materials in Blender. Ever wondered what the heck a Normal Map or Gloss Map is even for? Well, we're going to demystify it right here, right now! Using textures from Poliigon.com, we'll cover those two maps and how to use them in Blender using the Principled Shader. Tutorial is from Derek Elliot's YouTube channel
Home Based Animation is better than you'd think by M.D. McCallum. Read Mike's weekly column on digital life. This week he weighs the value of the home based animators work.