BlenderNation: Yep, that's right. The shiny new Apricot DVDs are ready and are now at the Blender Institute, arriving today from the printing factory. Ton explains on the Apricot blog page that tomorrow the... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

CGSociety: aniBoom Awards 2008 and aniBoom Radiohead ’In Rainbows’ Animated Music Video Contest results.

MAX Plugins.de: The VRayFurStyler is a modified VertexPaint modifier which can be used to paint RGB vertex maps to drive the generation of VRayFur.This plugin only works together ...

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.1 are:- Adds support for Max 2009 (32-bit and 64-bit)

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.0 are:- Adds support for Max 2009 (32-bit and 64-bit)

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.07 are:- Fixes export of UV coordinates when vertex colours are also present

MAX Plugins.de: I’ve only just noticed that Blake Robinson has recompiled his Battlezone import/export plugins for Max 2009 (32-bit only). The VDF/GEO/SDF plugins can be downloaded here, and t ...

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.0.6 are:- Minor bug-fixes

MAX Plugins.de: This is a modified version of the Spawn and Collision Spawn operators for MAXScripters. Both store the particle ID of their parent to the spawned particles Integer channel. In ...

SIGGRAPH: Spreading Educational Excellence in Computer Graphics & Digital Arts - Deadline: February 1, 2009