CGarchitect: Using unlicensed imagery as entourage in your images can land you and your company in a hot water, but what other options exist out there? Tracking down artists or galleries to secure rights for each image can be time consuming and expensive, but other options are now available. We interviewed Haydn ...

CGarchitect: New NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 Graphics Card Featuring CUDA Massively Parallel Processing Architecture; Offers Most Robust Performance and Features to Date for Oil and Gas Exploration, Medical Imaging, and Styling and Design Applications

BlenderNation: Here's a cool demonstration of Daniel 'Pepeland' Martinez Lara's Blender setup and of the new grease pencil feature. A preview of the video that he's editing is available as... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

BlenderNation: The three winners of the British 'Dare to be Digital' contest have been nominated for the prestigious BAFTA award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). One of them is the Blender... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

Max Underground: (Updated November 11, 2008) Josef Wienerroither has optimized and tweaked the Max scenes from the tests in order to balance them with the XSI setup, and did complete benchmark sessions before and after. Max fares much better than the results...

Max Underground: (Updated November 11, 2008) Josef Wienerroither has optimized and tweaked the Max scenes from the tests in order to balance them with the XSI setup, and did complete benchmark sessions before and after. Max fares much better than the results...

SIGGRAPH: We are looking to appoint a new chair for the Education Committee starting January 1, 2009.

BlenderNation: Mal from CanDo Interactive is hosting a Blender game engine contest. The deadline is March 16th, and there's a nice lineup of prizes. From the contest page: This competition is being run to... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

CGSociety: An artistic challenge to explore gears, springs, brass and steam set around some of the world’s best known stories.

CGSociety: The first ever Machinima Symposium is on in Singapore, as a co-located event with SIGGRAPH Asia.