N-Sided® announces the immediate availability of its new software dedicated to 3D retouch: Argile

Retouching, modeling, painting, directing and rendering, Argile is a complete 3D artist workshop that will make you forget the technical constraints, the unclear user interfaces and other fuzzy tools...

Import your 3D objects and characters to sculpt and retouch them in details.
Play with the brushes of the real time 3D painting palette, explore an infinity of materials and effects.
Discover the pleasure of creation with this workshop and its original artistic alembics.

Competitive and productive, Argile benefits from QUIDAM’s technology to cold-shoulder complex and technical user interfaces.
Its clear working environment offers a large range of premium tools designed to be handled naturally. In a couple of minutes you will control the software and discover without delay the simple pleasure to create.
Either you are a novice or a professional in 3D, Argile is the advanced tool to add to your toolkit.

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N-Sided® announces the release of the version 2.1 of QUIDAM, the character creation software

QUIDAM 2.1 corrects some flaws and brings a lot of optimizations and above all enriches QUIDAM 2.0 with a bunch of new features that will delight all users.
An overview of the main new features:

Sculpture
- An Eraser allows you to progressively remove all the retouches and deformations that you have done on the model
- New options are available to absorb the deformations and avoid too big stretching or mesh collisions
- You can now generate meshes at the subdivision level in order to refine a model for subtle retouches
- A system lets you adjust smooth angle and edges sharpness
- A new option invert normals from a selection of faces when needed

Textures and 3DPaint
- Advanced options to support sensitive tablets directly into the 3DPaint Module
- A very handy and precious widget to directly manipulate background images to trace over
- The possibility to Cut and Paste Materials

Import-Export
- You can now select the objects to be exported from a list
- Automatic Group detection when importing Custom Props. It allows you to import full textured characters or objects made of different groups and textures
-QUIDAM now supports 3D mice devices from 3DConnexion

Misc.
- Objects can be now rotated within precise angle values
- A better compatibility with Vista
- A new and optimized triangulation system to better display and export non-convex polygons
- Etc.

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N-Sided® announces the release of the version 2.0 of QUIDAM, the character creation software

This brand new version 2.0 of QUIDAM will delight all the digital sculpture fans:

- A real-time 3D Painting palette offers a wide variety of creative tools to paint directly on the volume colors, textures, transparency, relief… as if you were painting on a canvas.
- A brand new very fast Ray-Tracing rendering engine that digs into images to the finest details to give crisp and photo-realistic results.
- Automatic Skinning, Smooth Weight, predefined Skeleton Catalogue… professionals and advanced hobbyists will enjoy using this new module that dramatically eases the tedious task of “Setting up” the character for animation.
- And a lot more new features to discover…

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N-Sided® announced today the release of a new plug-in which allows to export QUIDAM creations into COLLADA format

The new COLLADA export plug-in completes the wide range of existing QUIDAM exports. Plug-ins are already available for Maya, 3DS MAX, Cinema 4D, Carrara and LightWave. N-Sided wanted QUIDAM creations to be able to be exported in COLLADA as it is the best bridge for several major applications such as Softimage XSI and Blender.
With this plug-in, characters can be exported in COLLADA at the resolution of your choice - from low poly count to highly detailed meshes - ready to be animated, with their textures, bones and skinning weights.

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N-Sided® announces the 1.5 version of QUIDAM, its character-generating star-software

Already greeted for its fastness, its very intuitive interface and its productivity, QUIDAM is unique in merging various anatomical elements into one seamless model. A single Base (Model Pack) of QUIDAM allows to generate billions of different characters! Moreover, QUIDAM offers artists a full set of advanced tools for sculpting and retouching creations to the last detail.
QUIDAM is the only software that exports multiresolution 3D characters, fully textured and ready to be animated in every piece of software of the 3D market.

Keeping the inimitable spirit of QUIDAM, this update turns up full of advanced and original functionalities which will delight professionals as well as artists:
It offers a brand new tool that is going to help you along placing imported objects; the painting of the skinning weights has considerably improved; QUIDAM opens up to advanced editing and to skeleton personalization, allowing to import/export in its own QDM format. Many more optimizations come adding more quality and fluidity to QUIDAM.
The content is not left behind, with two complete dynamic bases (a Fantasy warrior and a Manga man), two new variants of the faces bases with articulations, and many more improvements: new textures, accessories and new .QUI characters.

And all that for free for our registered users!

N-Sided® announces the 1.2 version of QUIDAM, its character-generating star-software

QUIDAM 1.2, a major update, comes with many new features that will delight both professionals and hobbyists:
-A new content source: the .Qui Bank
-Faster and more natural sculpting tools
-A very innovative system to paint skinning weights directly onto the models
-New features to apply customized textures on body parts
-And a lot of other improvements and optimizations...