SIGGRAPH announces nominees for animation festival
The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 2008 is the first year that the winners will be announced on site at the SIGGRAPH event. The unveiling of nominees as a precursor to the presentations ...

Iron Man
Breaking all the Iron clad rules, a bunch of studios punch out a true Marvel of a movie.

Ocula plug-ins for stereoscopic imagery
Press release: London, May 9th, 2008. Leading visual effects software developer The Foundry has announced the development of Ocula, a unique collection of plug-ins providing a powerful ...

Painting Weight Maps in XSI
Weight maps is a great feature we can take advantage of to help us in many ways with our projects

Giant Spider Compositing with After Effects
My previous Giant Spider post turned out not to be done in Blender after all, so I set out to find one that was. I found a videotutorial by 15 year old Daniel Reynolds, who explains how to align a... [read ...

Plugin Update: RayFire Tool v1.33 from Vadim Mir
Changes for v1.33 are:- You can now fragment objects by drawing strokes on screen in all supported views- Adds fragmentation of objects relative to a point in space ...

Plugin Update: OgreMax v1.6.14 from Derek Nedelman
Changes for v1.6.14 are:- Adds a scene setting to prefix material names with their parent material name- Fixes the ’Copy Bitmaps to Export Directory’ setting not wo ...

Plugin Update: Panda DirectX Exporter v5.2008.67.0 / v5.2009.67.0 from Pandasoft
Changes for v5.x.67.0 are:- Adds support for Max 2009 (32-bit and 64-bit)- Fixes mesh names not being output under ’No frames option’

RayFire Tool 1.33
The destruction kit plugin for Max has been updated with some great fragmentation tools and Reactor Rigid Body support via the RayFire user interface. Check out the complete list of features and some ...

Making of Roundeye Dragon
This is a 3D cartoon illustration created in my space time for self improvement.

Blender Video Mistaken for UFO Sighting
John Merrill reports to us that about two weeks ago "I was made aware that a video from my Blender portfolio has been mistaken for evidence of the paranormal. The video in question depicts a... [read ...

Short film to support people of Bhurma
Have a look at this new video supporting the people of Bhurma and to raise awareness of the website noneofusarefree.org The video has an interesting use of footage of warplanes bombing ...

Blog1 - Leavin for Hollywood - TheGoob
Found this animated blog on youtube. Very funny and innovative and if its a reccuring blog thiscould be seriously cool.

Re-release: little_fellaX rig.
Michael Tieleman aka. Freakydude, has re-release an updated version of his Little Fella rig. He's added_ Very nice posability, FK/IK switch panel facial animation rig All control bones have... [read ...

Archexteriors Vol. 01 for Cinema4D
Take a look at this 10 fully textured scenes with professional shaders and lighting ready to render. This production is prepared only for Cinema4D 10 or higher and Vray 1.08

Artlantis Software and Bionatics Partnership
The Abvent Group, editor of Artlantis software, announced today its partnership with Bionatics and the release of the CD Bionatics Pines & Conifers.

2008 Architectural 3D Awards - Call for Submissions
The Architectural 3D Awards are back again. Now in its fifth year, the 3D awards serve to recognize the best images and animations in the industry. Submit your best work today!

Ambient Occlusion with Alpha
Its all about using ambient occlusion in 3ds max with the help of just mental ray

Autodesk acquires assets of REALVIZ
7 May 2008 ? Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S .A., the privately held developer of image-based ...

Autodesk acquires Realviz
Realviz becomes one with Autodesk as Kynogon deal closes.

Autodesk Acquires
This time it’s a double, French-flavored announcement: Realviz and Kynogon are now officially part of Autodesk. According to the Realviz acquisition press release, Realviz Matchmover, Retimer and VTour will ...

Exposé 6 - digital art book announced
Press release: Adelaide, South Australia – 6th May 2008 Ballistic Publishing announces EXPOS É 6, the latest book in its groundbreaking series celebrating the World‘s finest ...

Ancient Times Winners Announced
After lots of hard work, learning, criticism and several other things, we find out the 2 winning images

Fear of the Dark
Master Artist Patrick Beaulieu takes us on his creature creation tour for the Strange Behavior CGChallenge and EXPOSÉ 6’s ‘Fear of the Dark’.