RebelThink announced that their Natural:shaders one.zero set of plugins has entered beta testing, and that the first commercial release of Natural:shaders will include a NatSea shader based on their old NatSea O/S shader. RebelThink also announced that they are working on Artistic:shaders for 3ds max, a collection of shaders and plugins for ink&paint, toon & NPR rendering. New impressive images created with Natural:shaders (beta) have been posted at RebelThink's forum. Check 'em out!

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After Siggraph 2004 RebelThink will work on a Mental Ray port of Natural:shaders to support other software platforms. Another announcement is the development of a plugin for Maya codenamed "project|CITYSCAPE", "a procedural cities modeller" with many features that will have a sneak peak technology preview at Siggraph 2004.