Archive Apr 2008 |
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| modo ships new set of video tutorials called the Cartoon Kid, based on concept art from Push Pen Studios. | Wacom announces a new touchscreen technology that will allow the user of both pen and finger for input. | Futuremark has unveiled the latest version of their 3DMark benchmark suite, 3DMark Vantage. | 30 Apr, 2008 | 30 Apr, 2008 | 29 Apr, 2008 |
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| A review of Argile, N-Sided's new 3D retouch tool, based on the Sculpt and Paint features of Quidam 2.0. | Walk freely through a variety of virtual worlds using CyberWalk, a European virtual reality system. | An interview with Tim Borgmann, a freelancer for advertising agencies and tv commercials using Softimage|XSI. | 29 Apr, 2008 | 28 Apr, 2008 | 28 Apr, 2008 |
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| The Digital Animation Expos? (Film Day) is an annual event hosted at the University of Hertfordshire?s Weston Auditorium. Showcasing the best student films, leading professional presentations, competitions, party and more! | Luxology?s President Brad Peebler interviews John Knoll, an Academy-award winning vfx specialist at ILM. | dvGarage releases greenscreen keyer ''dpMatte'' for Aperture. | 28 Apr, 2008 | 25 Apr, 2008 | 24 Apr, 2008 |
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| Animto, a new online service that allows you to create music videos from your images, by analyzing your images, feeling a music, and customizing a video for you. | cebas releases its new ThinkingParticles 3.0 Demo Version. | Luxology sponsors international furniture design competition with Skuuma. | 23 Apr, 2008 | 23 Apr, 2008 | 23 Apr, 2008 |
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| DAZ 3D launches new version of its free 3D posing and animation software, DAZ Studio 2.1.
| An interview with Meats Meier, a freelance illustrator and animator. | Go back to 1977 for a making of by Larry Cuba on how a visual effects sequence was created for the original Star Wars. | 22 Apr, 2008 | 22 Apr, 2008 | 21 Apr, 2008 |
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| Luxoloy sits down with John Knoll, inventor of the digital lens flare, co-creator of Photoshop and 22 year Industrial Light Magic veteran -- a 70 minute audio interview. | CGOverdrive2008, Asia?s largest computer graphics event, returns to Singapore Expo on 17 ? 20 June 2008. Read more about this event here. | Di-O-Matic announces the immediate release of Facial Studio (3ds max edition) version 2. | 21 Apr, 2008 | 21 Apr, 2008 | 18 Apr, 2008 |
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| N-Sided announces a new product, Argile, designed to allow artists to visualize, sculpt and retouch 3D models. | cebas announces finalRender Stage-2 SP4 for CINEMA 4D. | Hot Hardware reviews the ATI FireGL V8600 1GB workstation graphics card. | 17 Apr, 2008 | 17 Apr, 2008 | 17 Apr, 2008 |
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| An interview with artist Tolgahan G?ng?r about his architectural visualizations. | Variety reports that DreamWorks has acquired rights to Ghost in the Shell and plans to adapt it to a 3D live-action feature. | RED, creators of the aggressively priced 4K camera ''Red One,'' announce a 3K pocket professional camera called the ''Scarlet.'' | 15 Apr, 2008 | 15 Apr, 2008 | 14 Apr, 2008 |
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| RenderPal V2, the second installment of the Render Management System, has been released. | Softimage releases Face Robot 1.9. | An interview with Crytek's CEO Cevat Yerli on the topic of ray tracing and its future in gaming. | 14 Apr, 2008 | 12 Apr, 2008 | 12 Apr, 2008 |
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| An interview with James Cameron on the new technologies in stereoscopic filmmaking and how it will affect the industry in the years to come. | The Making of ''Super Snail,'' by Andr?s Hurtado from modeling, texturing to lighting and composition. | Disney and Pixar announce their film line-up throw 2012, which includes Toy Story 3, Cars 2 and Rapunzel. | 11 Apr, 2008 | 10 Apr, 2008 | 09 Apr, 2008 |
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| 3Dconnexion unveils SpaceNavigator, a notebook mouse designed for on-the-go 3D professionals and enthusiasts. | Software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. | Alain Bielik visits The Ruins with Rising Sun Pictures, which devised a new system for animating the nasty, man-eating vines. | 08 Apr, 2008 | 08 Apr, 2008 | 07 Apr, 2008 |
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| Joblo.com visits the set of Wall-E, and interviews the film's director, Andrew Stanton. | Dare to be Digital is the UK's premier video games competition for students who love to play games, and want to design their own video game. | Watch a few demonstration videos of the new features of 3ds max 2009. | 07 Apr, 2008 | 07 Apr, 2008 | 06 Apr, 2008 |
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| On 6 May 2008, Autodesk will hold its Education Summit, in partnership with NVIDIA, at the fmx conference in Stuttgart, Germany. | Luxology announced the immediate availability of modo 302, the newest version of its 3D content creation software. | News comes that Photoshop CS4 will not be 64-bit on the Mac, but will be 64-bit on Windows. | 05 Apr, 2008 | 05 Apr, 2008 | 05 Apr, 2008 |
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| N-Sided announces the release of QUIDAM 2.1. | Newtek releases Lightwave Rendition, a Photoshop CS3 Extended plugin. | LucasArts, the videogame arm of Lucasfilm, has tapped Darrell Rodriguez as its new president. | 03 Apr, 2008 | 03 Apr, 2008 | 03 Apr, 2008 |
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| Check out CGChannels behind the scenes interview with Tim Bennison, Executive Producer at Radical Entertainment on their soon to be released game 'Prototype'. | NVIDIA announces Nvision 2008, a three-day event bringing together engineers, artists, film makers, and consumers from every field of the visual computing industry -- to be held in August. | 02 Apr, 2008 | 01 Apr, 2008 |
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