Archive Mar 2011 |
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TurboSquid has announced that it will merge with two of its competitors: Falling Pixel and Exchange 3D. | Pavel Kuznetsov has released a commercial version of his Ky_Trail plug-in for 3ds Max. | V-Ray 2.0 for Maya has entered public beta testing. |
31 Mar, 2011 | 31 Mar, 2011 | 31 Mar, 2011 |
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Scott Metzger, VFX artist at Method Studios speaks about using V-Ray for their Halo: Reach commercial. | Fabio Bautista has a new tutorial on sculpting an amazon warrior, from his entry in the Sculpting Challenges on 3DTotal. | Prime Focus has been chosen by Lucasfilm to collaborate on the 3D conversion of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. |
31 Mar, 2011 | 30 Mar, 2011 | 30 Mar, 2011 |
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Trevor Hogg has completed his five part profile on the legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. | 3DjOBS has launched a search engine giving artists access to a database of over 2,000 current industry jobs by type and location. | Dali and the City: Surrealist Sculptures is an exhibition to be held in London, from April 1st to June 30th. |
30 Mar, 2011 | 29 Mar, 2011 | 29 Mar, 2011 |
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Take a look at video interviews with the directors of the animated films Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots. | Read about how the 1100 VFX shots of Sucker Punch were sent to four different companies to get the job done on time. | Batman will be reinvented after next year's The Dark Knight Rises, all in preparation for an upcoming Justice League feature film. |
29 Mar, 2011 | 29 Mar, 2011 | 29 Mar, 2011 |
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Take a first look at what Pixar's next feature animated film, Brave, is about. The movie is planned for release on June 22nd, 2012. | The feature list of the new version of Mental Ray, 3.9, has been released. | Jamie Bell teases us with details of the upcoming animated feature Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. |
28 Mar, 2011 | 26 Mar, 2011 | 26 Mar, 2011 |
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The Strause brothers discuss their work on last year's Skyline and their new film, War of the Ages. | OurBricks lets you discover, interact with and share 3D content right in your browser. (Thanks for posting, Nukie) | The Computer Graphics Student Awards is an annual event that showcases and rewards excellence in computer graphics from students and recent graduates. |
25 Mar, 2011 | 25 Mar, 2011 | 25 Mar, 2011 |
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IGN have made a list of the best car chases in movies. Is your favorite one in the list? | Naiad 0.5.1 has been released. See the list of new features and improvements. | Did you think Duke Nukem Forever would be out on time? Really? The Duke never comes early. |
25 Mar, 2011 | 24 Mar, 2011 | 24 Mar, 2011 |
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There are 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage to explore for the new movie in the Scream series. | If you enjoyed Rango, check out this feature article with its visual effects supervisor, Tim Alexander. | A screenwriter is suing Disney and Pixar claiming Cars was stolen. |
23 Mar, 2011 | 22 Mar, 2011 | 22 Mar, 2011 |
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Check out a cool featurette on the music of Rio, the animated feature film set to open on April 7th. | XRayBlendSkin allows interactive skinning blend with dual quaternions within 3ds Max. | Prepare to return to Middle Earth. The Hobbit is finally about to start filming, and director Peter Jackson has two images to tease us. |
22 Mar, 2011 | 22 Mar, 2011 | 21 Mar, 2011 |
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Tech ARP have the scoop on the upcoming GeForce GTX 590. See the specs of NVIDIA's mammoth. | HotHardware have reviewed the new Apple iPad 2 tablet. Is it a worthy successor? | RayFire has been updated with version 1.55, see the features here. |
21 Mar, 2011 | 21 Mar, 2011 | 19 Mar, 2011 |
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cebas has released Service Pack 2 for its leading 3ds Max core rendering engine, finalRender 3.5. | Thinkbox Software have released Frost, a plugin for 3ds Max. See what it can do, here. | Get an idea about how Cinesite destroyed LA for Battle: Los Angeles. |
19 Mar, 2011 | 19 Mar, 2011 | 19 Mar, 2011 |
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Footage of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been released online, courtesy of ABC Family. | Hot Hardware are looking at the GeForce GTX 580 and which versions are top of the line in the single GPU market. | Artists Help Japan - earthquake & tsunami emergency fund, a worthy effort to support a country in danger and sorrow. |
18 Mar, 2011 | 18 Mar, 2011 | 17 Mar, 2011 |
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The making of Frozen Crossing Alpha, the frozen battle scene, shows something of every aspect of its production. | The animated feature film Mars Needs Moms is being called a historic disaster at the box office for Disney. | MPC's have a new video on the creation of their 360 spot for Sky Movies. |
17 Mar, 2011 | 17 Mar, 2011 | 16 Mar, 2011 |
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NVIDIA have launched the GeForce GTX 550 TI graphics card. See Tech ARP's article on it. | XPro Software have released free Photoshop Action Sets for personal and commercial use. | Evermotion have released Archmodels Volume 96, that contains 65 highly detailed models of toys. |
16 Mar, 2011 | 15 Mar, 2011 | 15 Mar, 2011 |
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10ravens have a daily discount offer on their products, such as models, base meshes and textures. | Copitor is a useful script that allows you to copy and paste objects from one 3ds Max session to another. | There's a new and lengthy behind the scenes featurette on the film Battle: Los Angeles, released last week. |
14 Mar, 2011 | 14 Mar, 2011 | 14 Mar, 2011 |
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Ten24 along with Axis Animation and Infinite-Realities® created the main character models for the Dead Island trailer. | Animation World Network have an article about the breakthroughs achieved in performance capture for the animated film Mars Needs Moms. | Catherine Hardwicke discusses the VFX in her new fairy tale film, Red Riding Hood. |
12 Mar, 2011 | 12 Mar, 2011 | 12 Mar, 2011 |
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E-on Software has released Carbon Scatter for 3ds Max, with versions for Maya and Cinema4D coming soon. | Exocortex Technologies have announced Momentum 2.0, a high speed multiphysics simulator for Softimage. | ILM discusses the work they did on their first (hopefully of many) animated feature film, Rango. |
11 Mar, 2011 | 10 Mar, 2011 | 10 Mar, 2011 |
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Explore the science of Source Code with this featurette for the feature film due out April 1st. | Junction VFX has an in-depth VFX breakdown for one of the shots in the short film Find Makarov. | Meshmixer's latest version is available for free download, with a complete UI rewrite for several workflow improvements. |
10 Mar, 2011 | 10 Mar, 2011 | 09 Mar, 2011 |
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CGSociety has an interesting production focus on the cyberpunk shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution. | DreamWorks Animation has released its film launch schedule through 2014. | an(i)ma is the fastest stand-alone character animation application developed especially for architects and designers. |
09 Mar, 2011 | 09 Mar, 2011 | 08 Mar, 2011 |
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Blizzard Entertainment has turned 20 years old, and has released a long retrospective video of its history. | Find out about the film Expedition 4514 and how you can help it become a reality. | CG Channel takes a first look at the new features in Smoke 2012. |
08 Mar, 2011 | 07 Mar, 2011 | 07 Mar, 2011 |
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Solid Iris Technologies have released Thea Render, containing both state-of-the-art biased and unbiased engines. | CGStudio Map is a map-based website gathering and sharing information about over 1000 CG studios in the world. | On March 8-10, MPC's Recruitment Team will be in Los Angeles to find new talent. |
05 Mar, 2011 | 04 Mar, 2011 | 04 Mar, 2011 |
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Autodesk has made available the new features for Softimage 2012. | Digital-Tutors starts off March with a big announcement, containing all-new courses and free training. | Take a look at a short making of featurette for Battle: Los Angeles, the gritty invasion movie getting released on March 11. |
04 Mar, 2011 | 03 Mar, 2011 | 02 Mar, 2011 |
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3Dconnexion, a subsidiary of Logitech, are celebrating their one millionth 3D mouse milestone! | See the host of new features Autodesk has released in regards to Maya 2012. Shaping up to be an apocalyptic iteration. | Autodesk have revealed the new features for 3dsmax 2012. (Thanks for posting, JHarford) |
02 Mar, 2011 | 01 Mar, 2011 | 01 Mar, 2011 |
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Autodesk have revealed the new feature list for the latest iteration of their sculpting application, Mudbox 2012. (Thanks for posting, hulahuga) | Take a first look at Sentinel Prime and more pieces of information regarding Transformers: Dark of the Moon, now without dorky humor. |
01 Mar, 2011 | 01 Mar, 2011 |
