Max Underground: Daniel Martínez Lara has uploaded some videos showing how to use sculpt tools in Blender for animation (AniSculpt), with this techinque one can make squash & stretch effects, redefine the shape of a model at a specific frame, modify the...

Max Underground: Neil Bennett reviews After Effects CS4 for Digital Arts: "... all welcome additions, but we were expecting more from the new release."...

CGarchitect: Learn how to take models that were created in Revit® or AutoCAD® and import them into Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design to create accurate and compelling daylight simulations with the Exposure™ feature.

CGSociety: French officials announce game initiative to make a positive impact on game industry future.

CGSociety: Theory and practice of digital character development for film and games explained in new book released by Rob O’Neill.

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v2.2a are:- Adds support for Max 2009 (32-bit and 64-bit)

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.0.396 include:- Adds support for an override output directory path to preferences- Fix to support for output of 24-bit image formats from 32-bit fram ...

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.0 are:- Fixes to try and handle SMD parsing better- Adds a ’pre-parse’ option to speed up reading SMDs- Adds support for importing animations

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.03 are:- The trial face-count limitation has been raised to 1600 faces- Trial mode is now automatically activated upon installation- Minor usab ...

BlenderNation: Here's an impressive list of 73(!) websites that offer free texture resources. More will be added in the future. Daniel wrote: I have created a blog with a list of websites that offer free... [read the full article on blendernation.com]