N-Sided announces the release of Argile 2, the new version of its fantastic 3D retouching software.

Retouching, Modeling, Morphing, 3D Painting and Image Rendering… Argile is a complete workshop totally dedicated to creation. Forget the technical constraints, the cluttered user interfaces and other fuzzy tools...

Import 3D objects and characters to sculpt and retouch them in details, create morphs and preview them in real time. Play with the brushes of the real time 3D painting palette, explore an infinity of materials and effects, compose scenes and render images…

Discover the pleasure of creation with this unique workshop and its original artistic alembics.

Much more powerful and sharp, the version 2 of this 3D Sculpt and Paint workshop gains a lot of innovating new features. 3D has never been so productive, simple and natural!

This new version 2 greatly enhances the capacities of Argile:
- A very sophisticated Catalogs system allows to stock and retrieve all kind of content (objects, morphs, images, textures, materials, environments, lights, etc.).
- The 3D Paint module has been entirely rebuilt and optimized to be faster and more accurate.
Now it can synchronize the modifications realized in external 2D software like Photoshop!
- A UV projection system adds UV coordinates to your objects so that they can be painted.
Unique feature, you can also retouch UVs interactively in the 3D view. A must-try!
- Argile 2 comes loaded with additional content. UV mapped and textured 3D objects, new paint brushes, new textures...
- And many other new features such as the support of real time self shadows, the SCRATCH
mode to previsualize morphs sequences, the export to 3DM and STL formats...

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N-Sided® announces the release of QUIDAM 3, the new version of its unmatched 3D character creation program

Coming with a lot of great new features and top quality 3D and 2D content, QUIDAM 3 is even more Professional and Creative!

In a few words:
- QUIDAM 3 offers an advanced Catalogs system to help saving and reusing all kind of 3D component (characters, morphs, lights, props…).
- The 3D Paint Module has been fully rewritten to be much more accurate and to provide a direct bridge with 2D paint editors (like Photoshop).
- An automatic UV projection system has been added to automatically prepare imported objects so that they can be textured. N-Sided innovates again with an amazing approach that allows you to retouchs UV maps directly onto the 3D model.
- Many other new features dramatically improve QUIDAM: Self shadows in real time, major improvements in edition of skeletons and proportions, an extended QUI format…
- This new version comes with a huge amount of new 2D and 3D : custom characters, textured multiresolution 3D objects, paint and bump brushes, high resolution textures, backgrounds and floor images, skeletons, poses, camera presets, etc.

QUIDAM Prime
A new product is launched to complete the line: QUIDAM Prime. Greatly expected by development studios, this new package includes QUIDAM 3 Studio features, the export plug-ins for Maya and 3D Studio Max and, above all, adds licensing rights for the generated 3D models. Therefore the license of QUIDAM 3 Prime allows

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N-Sided® announces the coming release of QUIDAM 3, the new version of its unmatched 3D character creation program.

Coming with a lot of great new features and top quality 3D and 2D content, QUIDAM 3 is even more Professional and Creative!

In a few words:
- QUIDAM 3 offers an advanced Catalogs system to help saving and reusing all kind of 3D component (characters, morphs, lights, props…).
- The 3D Paint Module has been fully rewritten to be much more accurate and to provide a direct bridge with 2D paint editors (like Photoshop).
- An automatic UV projection system has been added to automatically prepare imported objects so that they can be textured. N-Sided innovates again with an amazing approach that allows you to retouchs UV maps directly onto the 3D model.
- Many other new features dramatically improve QUIDAM: Self shadows in real time, major improvements in edition of skeletons and proportions, an extended QUI format…
- This new version comes with a huge amount of new 2D and 3D : custom characters, textured multiresolution 3D objects, paint and bump brushes, high resolution textures, backgrounds and floor images, skeletons, poses, camera presets, etc.

QUIDAM Prime
A new product is launched to complete the line: QUIDAM Prime. Greatly expected by development studios, this new package includes QUIDAM 3 Studio features, all export plug-ins and, above all, adds licensing rights for the generated 3D models. Therefore the license of QUIDAM 3 Prime allows

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N-Sided® announces the launch of a new offer based on QUIDAM tools and content, dedicated to the needs for avatars of virtual universes and massively multiplayer online games

A complete solution
Production Managers are well aware that dealing separately with the purchase of Tools, the creation of Content and the acquisition of Licenses is a huge waste of time.
That is why N-Sided provides a unique and simple solution with all components.
It is not worth the hassle of counting anymore... you can install all tools on an unlimited number of seats and you are allowed to integrate an unlimited number of avatars in the application!
Moreover N-Sided offers additional development services to the editors who need specific avatar bases or particular tools.

Highly productive tools
QUIDAM includes award-winning technology that dramatically accelerates avatar production.
A unique geometric engine lets you search through large databases of body parts, clothes, props... to compose your model and automatically merges all parts into one seamless model.
The capacity to export multi-resolution models, optimized for real-time animation and 100% compatible with all professional standards is tremendously valuable.

Controlled costs
Fees are determined based on the number of active members of the universe so that the editors pay a faire price, adapted to the effective use of avatars.
A very attractive payment system for all starting projects!

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N-Sided® announces the release of the first "QUI Packs"

The QUI Packs are two collections of models that include almost 40 3D characters. There are businessmen, super heroes, female heads, warehouse workers, weightlifters and many other characters.
But the best news is that these packs are completely FREE!

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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...