Archive Oct 2007 |
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In this video presentation, Dennis Muren, senior vfx supervisor for ILM, talks about his craft, his sources of inspiration, and how to translate a director?s vision into special effects. | Nvidia releases Quadro FX 5600 SDI and Quadro FX 4600 SDI graphics cards for graphics professionals. | C4D Cafe reviews Cinema 4D 10.5. |
30 Oct, 2007 | 30 Oct, 2007 | 29 Oct, 2007 |
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The3dStudio.com 2D and 3D resource collection reaches over 100,000 downloadable resources. Read the full press release here. | Virtual reality reaches 100-million pixels With Nvidia Quadros for Iowa State University?s new Virtual Reality Applications Center. | ''Set the World on Fire'' - a tutorial on creating realistic rendering using Maxwell Renderer. |
29 Oct, 2007 | 28 Oct, 2007 | 28 Oct, 2007 |
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Pixar is having a live-action role in Wall-E. Their first ever non-animated character to appear in a film or short is played by Fred Willard. Follow for an interview with him. | UltimateDisney reviews the ''Pixar Short Films Collection - Volume 1'' DVD. | Autodesk has acquired the cMuscleSystem plug-in and technology. |
28 Oct, 2007 | 27 Oct, 2007 | 26 Oct, 2007 |
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Cheetah 3D 4.3 has been released, with added new features and Mac OS X Leopard compatibility. | Wacom laucnes the Cintiq 12WX, a widescreen portable Cintiq, smaller and cheaper than its older brother - less than half the price. | The GIMP 2.4 has been released. |
26 Oct, 2007 | 25 Oct, 2007 | 25 Oct, 2007 |
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Alon Chou from Taiwan shares the making of his ''Transformer - Death Blow.'' | DXStudio, games and simulation platform, moves to version 2.2. | Virtual Reality Reaches 100-Million Pixels With NVIDIA Quadro? Technology |
24 Oct, 2007 | 24 Oct, 2007 | 24 Oct, 2007 |
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Luxology announces the release ofThe Alley - Their new modo tutorial series for creating lightweight game assets. | EA Producer of Fifa Street 3 says that their real-time animation engine is too complex but for the Xbox 360 and PS3. | BOXX proves rendering time is cut in half for 3DBOXX 7500 Workstations running with Quad-Core AMD Opteron. Read the latest press release for further information here. |
23 Oct, 2007 | 22 Oct, 2007 | 22 Oct, 2007 |
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The new OS X is coming out this Friday, and Apple has put online a 27-minute video tour of the major new features. | An interview with three from the team behind ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' on bring back the film in 3D. | Flickr plans to expand from photo sharing to photo editing through a deal with start-up Picnik. |
21 Oct, 2007 | 21 Oct, 2007 | 21 Oct, 2007 |
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Microsoft's Virtual Earth now offers 3D building capability. | Adobe has announced it is planning to move all of its applications to the web. | George Lucas has confirmed that work on the live-action Star Wars tv series has begun. |
20 Oct, 2007 | 20 Oct, 2007 | 19 Oct, 2007 |
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Several times we have linked to cinematics from ''Hellgate London'', and now the demo of the long in development game is out. | Get into ZBrush vol 1 & 2 are the latest releases from Kurv Studios. | Turbo Squid have announce that its 3D application plug-in, Tentacles, is now available for the most recent version of Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 |
19 Oct, 2007 | 19 Oct, 2007 | 19 Oct, 2007 |
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Addiction, a making of by Trond Elling Haveland. | Apple officially announces that the next version of Mac OS X, Leopard, will be out this October 26th. | Autodesk release 32 & 64 bit trial versions of 3DS Max 2008. Try it out now. |
18 Oct, 2007 | 18 Oct, 2007 | 17 Oct, 2007 |
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Paramount creates a podcast for Beowulf and in this week's episode they interview Doug Chiang. | According to BOXX, rendering time is cut in half for 3D BOXX 7500 workstations running with AMD?s quad-core Opteron. | BusinessWeek writes about ''Imagi,'' the Hong Kong based animation studio that brought western talents to Asia to make U.S.-quality animated films for far lower costs |
17 Oct, 2007 | 17 Oct, 2007 | 16 Oct, 2007 |
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Autodesk has completed the acquisition of Skymatter, the makers of Mudbox 3D brush-based modelling software. | Autodesk puts together training videos for the new features of the Extension 1 of Flame 2007. | An interview with several from the team behind Valve's The Orange Box. |
16 Oct, 2007 | 14 Oct, 2007 | 14 Oct, 2007 |
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An article that goes back to look into the making of ''System Shock 2,'' the classic videogame that is the spiritual predecessor to Bioshock. | Electronic Arts acquires two companies, BioWare and Pandemic Studios, for a sum of over $800 million. | The Making of Master of the Bottle, by Khalid Abdulla Al-Muharraqi. |
13 Oct, 2007 | 13 Oct, 2007 | 12 Oct, 2007 |
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Digital-Tutors releases a ''Creating Cartoon Characters in Maya'' training. | Pixar's ''The Art of Wall-E'' is now available for pre-order on amazon.com. | Pixologic announces ZApplink 3, a free plugin to integrate your favorite image editing software into the ZBrush workflow. |
12 Oct, 2007 | 12 Oct, 2007 | 11 Oct, 2007 |
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The Making of ''Return of the Light,'' by John Bruk. | Steven Spielberg talks about the next Indiana Jones, Transformers, and Tintin. | Luxology licenses Pixar's Subdivision Surface patents to incorporate them in their products. |
11 Oct, 2007 | 11 Oct, 2007 | 08 Oct, 2007 |
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An interview with the creators of Pixelmator, the $59 Photoshop-clone for the Mac platform. | The Halo movie is dead, says director Neill Blomkamp. | An interview with Cevat Yerli on Crytek's upcoming Crysis, with discussion about many points including how the game is too complicated for the Xbox 360 and PS3. |
06 Oct, 2007 | 06 Oct, 2007 | 05 Oct, 2007 |
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Microsoft and Bungie studios part away, and Microsoft retains the Halo franchise. | Work on a Transformers sequel has started, with most of the cast and crew of the first film back to the new film. | VFXWorld takes a look at the new previsualization techniques developed for DreamWorks' upcoming Bee Movie. |
05 Oct, 2007 | 04 Oct, 2007 | 03 Oct, 2007 |
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Louis Morillo sets out to create his interpretation of Davy Jones, and shares a tutorial with us on he how he made it to be. | Four-time Oscar-winning animator Nick Park is turning back to the small screen for a new adventure starring Wallace and Gromit. | Maxon releases Cinema 4D R10.5. |
03 Oct, 2007 | 03 Oct, 2007 | 02 Oct, 2007 |
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Making of Portrait of a Troll, by Jonas Persson | TDT3D makes on big table comparing dozens of features from six 3D modeling applications. From the free, Blender, to the most expensive, 3ds max. | Mobile Modeler have just released their latest interview; Pontiac GTO 1969 with Tamas Tothfalussy, |
02 Oct, 2007 | 01 Oct, 2007 | 01 Oct, 2007 |
