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We don't send newsletters very often, but when we do, we have important things to share, like the Duik Alpha new "Shifts" tool for RxLab.'s members, the most recent DuBlast for Maya, the beautiful Duik Ángela Source Code Book, some news about Ramses, and the latest updates of Duik Ángela, DuBlast for Maya, the Ramses App and its Maya Add-on and Server. Enjoy!

Duik Ángela.2 // v17.2.0-alpha5 // is available for all members with a new tool: Shifts.

This is very useful for a kind of organic, random or quasi-random, quasi-regular, movement; it works with any numeric property (including colors).
Like a step by step wiggle... And it can loop of course!
Note that each cycle will be different if you choose to loop, so it really looks random while regularly getting back to the original value.

In short: it's completely customizable and may be very useful for all kind of stuff 🙂
Details are already in the doc.

This new tool will be available for everyone in the new Duik Ángela.2 soon, with a bunch of other new features... Stay in touch or join us if you can't wait!

DuBlast for Maya has been update to v2!
DuBlast: better playblast for Maya

Auto select the camera, auto burn in metadata and frame number, modern and animator-friendly video format (lightweight and easy to scrub intra-frame mp4), auto set the correct filename and path... It also comes with ffplay as a default simple but performant video player (but you can set your own player if you prefer).

This new v2 includes more options, and the ability to save all the options, and fixes a few bugs.

The first, and utterly essential, of our new book series is already available: "Duik Ángela: The Source Code"

A 760-page 1-kilogram brick not made to build walls, but to show how we'd like to weigh for a better world, through open-source and free software.

This book contains the complete source code of Duik. It’s a manifesto for open source software. It’s a way to physically show how open source software is different from other software, and how important it is to change the world.

Well, we have to admit, our book, it really is beautiful and actually almost absolutely useless. But it's still a nice way to support our work for free software. Get yours now!

Next books available soon will be the "Duik Ángela Comprehensive User Guide", and the first edition of our "Practical Guide to Color Management".

And there are even more to come! Be patient and stay close...

Find all our books at RxLab's Shop

Ramses (Beta) is still being polished as we're closing to a proper release which will come with its After Effects and Blender add-ons, and managed servers to make your team life easier.

The application has been given a nice UI upgrade which will benefit all our apps, including the new DuME coming soon for example.

The Maya add-on has been updated to work better with the latest Maya 2024 and fix a few remaining bugs.

Finally, both the server and the app have been improved to speed up the sync process (and save some data and energy, because it matters a lot to us to reduce as much as possible the impact of our work on the environment).

Nicolas "Duduf" Dufresne sera présent aux RADI, Rencontres Animation Développement Innovation à Angoulême le mercredi 22 novembre !

Il y présentera en exclusivité et en avant-première le tout nouveau DuME, Duduf Media Encoder, et sa vue nodale, sa file d'attente de rendu, ses rendus Blender et After Effects...

Réservations et programme complet des RADI et RAF ici !

Ce sera aussi l'occasion de discuter avec lui de toutes les activités de RxLab !

Here's the list of tools which got a brand new update since our latest newsletter.

⬣ Duik Angela V17.2.0-alpha5, October 3 2023

⬣ Duik Angela V17.1.8, October 3 2023

⬣ Ramses App, Maya Add-on and Server V0.8.x-Beta, October 5, 2023

⬣ DuBlast for Maya V2.0.2, October 30 2023

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