Author: Adriana Carney

Bluegfx is pleased to announce its partnership with ERA Ltd, a leading independent provider of IT and workflow solutions.

With a strong history of collaboration, Bluegfx and ERA have formalised their partnership to offer clients a complete package by leveraging Bluegfx’s software and support expertise and ERA’s cloud-based infrastructure services, ensuring a streamlined and efficient experience every step of the way.

With this partnership Bluegfx and ERA will be able to maximise their offerings with end-to-end deployment for clients in the media and entertainment industries covering their software, hardware and cloud infrastructure services requirements.

The signing of this partnership represents an exciting opportunity for both Bluegfx and ERA and their shared vision for innovation and excellence will deliver unparalleled value to their clients. 

Matt Allen, CEO of Bluegfx said “By working more closely together, both companies aim to leverage ERA’s cloud infrastructure solutions, which are characterised by their agility, client specificity, and scalability. These qualities align well with the dynamic needs of the VFX, games, and animation sectors, where flexibility and scalability are crucial”.

Commenting on this recent partnership, Sean Baker, Managing Director or ERA Ltd said “Partnering with an organisation deeply attuned to the market and the unique challenges within these sectors ensures our clients not only receive tailored solutions but will also enjoy a long-term relationship with an exceptional partner.  We’re thrilled to enhance our offerings with Bluegfx, viewing this as a significant milestone in our journey towards long-term growth and success”.

ABOUT ERA

Based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire and delivering IT and workflow solutions since 1998, ERA is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of IT workflow solutions for clients in the media, VFX, post-production and broadcast industries. Solutions cover all aspects of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud archiving, remote workstations, storage, maintenance support and other managed services to meet the needs of complex and demanding media workflow projects. By taking a vendor-neutral design approach and understanding no two customers are the same, ERA has developed a large and strong customer base.  With customers including Jellyfish Pictures, The Look, Evolutions, The University of Salford and Vice Media; ERA have helped with challenges around storage, impractical infrastructures, accessibility issues, scalability, and integration. https://eraltduk.com/

Creating and detailing scenes has never been easier and faster. What’s new in Corona 11?

More freedom, more creativity

Corona 11 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D brings a new level of creative freedom and control for artists, architects, and designers. Equipped with a powerful set of tools, it helps create and detail scenes with greater ease and speed than ever.

Powerful detailing of scenes

▪ Easily create stunning bathrooms, kitchens, walls, and floors with procedural tiles thanks to Corona Tile Map.

▪ Easily apply effects like weathering and staining to the edges of objects with Edge Map/Edge Shader.

New Scatter controls

▪ Define upper and lower limits for scattering, creating more realistic nature scenes with Scatter Altitude.

▪ You can now have scattered items look in the same direction quickly and easily using Scatter Look At.

Simulations

▪ Add an extra layer of action to your scenes with smoke, fire, and other Pyro simulations directly in Corona for Cinema 4D.

Improved workflow

▪ Corona 11 for 3ds Max comes with a set of handy scripts called Corona Power Tools, designed to speed up and replace repetitive and tedious design adjustments.

Other improvements

▪ Improved Normal / Bump filtering reduces the loss of detail in those channels that can come with using a smaller render resolution or moving an object further away from the camera.

▪ With the new Intel Denoiser, you get improved results and it can run on CPU or GPU, not being tied to NVIDIA GPUs.

▪ Users can now take advantage of the colour management options offered by the latest versions of Cinema 4D and 3ds Max.

▪ Improved Lister in Corona for Cinema 4D

Create stunning visuals and animations effortlessly with Corona 11.

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For more information call our sales team on 01483 410370 or email sales@bluegfx.com

ZBrush 2024 comes with a number of improvements that make the industry standard for digital sculpting even better.

Some the features and enhancements include:

• The innovative Anchors Brush receives an update enabling use of the brush without the need for masking the surface.
• Split to Parts extends Knife Brush capabilities by allowing assets to be divided into pieces while keeping sliced parts as separate or unified parts within the SubTool menu.
• The Gizmo and Transpose tools now feature topology masking along with capacity to snap to the center of the masking region. The Gizmo and Transpose Lines can snap along the masked area, making artist’s masking workflow easier.
• Cinema 4D noises are now available in the ZBrush surface noise gallery.
• With the new Repeat to Similar feature, artists can easily repeat changes from a source mesh they are editing and have changes populate target meshes with the same polygon count. Repeat to Similar supports Sculpting changes, Full mesh replacement, Masking and Polygrouping.
• Grow and Shrink mask capabilities are expanded to include more dynamic control and increased design potential.
• A new stroke option called DragStamp is included. Allows for control of the intensity associated with an alpha being dragged onto the surface by moving the cursor back and forth.
• Two new buttons were added for creases promoting more control over areas of an asset where creases and edges occur. Crease Unmasked and Uncrease Unmasked.
• Insert Mesh Brushes are now compatible with Stroke menu options.

For more information contact our sales team at sales@bluegfx.com or give us a call on 01483 410370