Archive Mar 2006 |
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31 Mar, 2006 | 30 Mar, 2006 | 29 Mar, 2006 |
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SideFX's Houdini arrives in Spain! Aula Tematica, the most experienced Spanish CGI Training Center introduces new courses lining with the Houdini Master intensive program. | Founders of 3DKingdom have launched a brand new website dedicated to linking all sort of computer graphics tutorials for various programs. | Developing a modeling script in XSI, from start to finish. |
29 Mar, 2006 | 28 Mar, 2006 | 27 Mar, 2006 |
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 due in Q2 2007, for the Intel Macs. | Di-O-Matic announced version 2 of lip-synchronization software Voice-O-Matic. | The 3rd Volume of Masters of Fantasy has just been released. |
26 Mar, 2006 | 24 Mar, 2006 | 24 Mar, 2006 |
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The world's first graphics card with 1GB of memory; an ATI FireGL. | Dell to buy high-end PC maker Alienware. | Softimage announces XSI 5.1. |
23 Mar, 2006 | 23 Mar, 2006 | 22 Mar, 2006 |
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The Making of a Lamborghini Gallerdo. | Alain Bielik of VFXWorld unmasks the 3D tricks in the explosive political thriller, V For Vendetta. | Disney is reportedly laying off animators ahead of Pixar deal. |
22 Mar, 2006 | 22 Mar, 2006 | 22 Mar, 2006 |
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Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 7.5 character animation software. | Nvidia announces SLI-accelerated physics. | A $1,000 video card, the Geforce 7900GX2. |
21 Mar, 2006 | 21 Mar, 2006 | 20 Mar, 2006 |
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BOXX launches a mobile workstation with AMD's Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processors. | SketchUp, a 3D design software, has been acquired by Google. | With the participation of over 100 companies, Tokyo opened what it billed as the first global animation center. |
20 Mar, 2006 | 18 Mar, 2006 | 18 Mar, 2006 |
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Natural Motion announces euphotia, a run-time technology for next-generation game platforms. | The rules of camera tracking, to better combine live-action and CGI elements, as written by Computer Arts. | An insightful article in TIME magazine on the digital revolution, film, and how some directors are resisting the move. |
17 Mar, 2006 | 17 Mar, 2006 | 17 Mar, 2006 |
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3D Kingdom have published their first tutorial from the tutorial competition which they hosted a few weeks ago. This one is about Maya Full body IK and it won 5th place...
| Digital-Tutors Releases ZBrush and XSI Training. Their latest training release provides an interactive guide for integrating workflow between ZBrush and XSI | Eovia Announces the release of Hexagon 2
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17 Mar, 2006 | 16 Mar, 2006 | 16 Mar, 2006 |
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SyFlex has some new interviews with Weta Digital's Lead Creature TD, Andrea Merlo who talks about the work they did with SyFlex on KING KONG and their sister company Weta Productions talk about using SyFlex in their latest TV series Jane and the Dragon. | Eurogamer.net has posted up a rather interesting piece of news for all you Playstaion 3 fans. Go check it out. | In Ultraviolet, Hollywood went to Hong Kong for VFX. Follow for a report on how a company handled its first major American studio feature. |
16 Mar, 2006 | 15 Mar, 2006 | 14 Mar, 2006 |
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CGFocus interviews CG artist Jeremy Hardin. | 3D curtain drape tutorial using 3D Studio Max. | Disney named Brad Bird as the director of Ratatouille. |
14 Mar, 2006 | 14 Mar, 2006 | 13 Mar, 2006 |
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UK-based Framestore CFC has formed a feature-animation unit, and announced their first film. | A video gallery of Face Robot, SoftImage's facial animation software. | Newtek put online a group of videos that demo the features of the upcoming Lightwave 9. |
13 Mar, 2006 | 13 Mar, 2006 | 10 Mar, 2006 |
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Microsoft introduced today the Ultra-Mobile PCs, their new revolution designed to ''go everwhere,'' and allow you to ''do everything.'' | Faster, Cooler, Smaller - the Geforce 7900 Series, as reviewed by HardOCP. | Illuminate Labs released the public beta of Turtle 3. |
09 Mar, 2006 | 09 Mar, 2006 | 09 Mar, 2006 |
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Pixoh, a free online image editor. Very simple features, but an interesting concept well done. | Pixar reported the most profitable year ever. | George Lucas predicts the death of big-budget movies and suggests the future is $15 million productions. |
08 Mar, 2006 | 08 Mar, 2006 | 07 Mar, 2006 |
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Digital-Tutors Releases RenderMan for Maya Training DVD, an interactive solution to learning RenderMan for Maya. | 3DM3 have posted up a step-by-step tutorial on Modelling an alloy wheel for a car. | Oscar Winners: King Kong for visual effects, Wallace & Gromit for animated film, and Imagined Conversation for animated short... |
07 Mar, 2006 | 07 Mar, 2006 | 05 Mar, 2006 |
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Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) to lay off 250, and named new executives to recover from its financial problems. | An interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger. | 3D World demonstrates how to create a fully-textured robot model for a next-gen game engine. |
05 Mar, 2006 | 05 Mar, 2006 | 04 Mar, 2006 |
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CNNMoney writes on the heating-up cartoon war, and how 2006 will witness a tougher competition than ever. | ArsTechnica has reviewed Apple's MacBook Pros, their new notebooks based on Intel processors. | Disney is returning to its roots, hiring back the creators of Mermaid and Aladdin... |
04 Mar, 2006 | 02 Mar, 2006 | 02 Mar, 2006 |
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RenderNode has reviewed Naturalmotion's Endorphin 2.5. | CGUnderground have posted up a new tip tutorial by Carlo Macchiavello. The tutorial is 35 tips on how to accelerate Lightwave 3D.
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