Archive May 2006 |
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| Luxology releases modo 201. | Strata is pleased to announce that its new product line is now shipping. Three Products Released - Strata 3D CX, Strata 3D Live and Strata Foto 3D. | Pixar Animation Studios releases RenderMan Pro Server 13. | 31 May, 2006 | 31 May, 2006 | 31 May, 2006 |
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| Become a Member of The123D and create your own Free Online Portfolio Homepage! | An interview with the directors of the first original content 3D DreamWorks animated short. | An article discussing the increasing reliance on cost-effective Virtual Sets, taking X-Men 3 as an example, in which San Francisco was entirely virtual. | 31 May, 2006 | 29 May, 2006 | 29 May, 2006 |
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| Newsforge follows up on the success and huge attention the ''open'' short film, Elephants Dream, has garnered in just one week. | Microsoft shows off JPEG rival. Smaller file size and more features. | Adobe reveals some of the features of InDesign CS3. | 28 May, 2006 | 28 May, 2006 | 27 May, 2006 |
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| Emmy Award-winning Clone Wars is now available on iTunes. | Digital-Tutors Releases Polygon and Sub-D Modeling in XSI Training. Their latest training provides fundamental guide to organic modeling in XSI | Luxology announces the release of modo 201. modo 201 delivers the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering in a single integrated and accelerated platform. | 27 May, 2006 | 26 May, 2006 | 25 May, 2006 |
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| An interview with Bryan Singer on Superman, in which he discusses shooting digital, recreating Marlon Brando digitally, and the phyiscs of superheroes. | An interview with actress Sara Rehnmark, who performed Kitty Hunting in the Sofitmage Face Robot demo videos. | BOXX launches the 3DBOXX 8300 Series Workstation, an Intel Xeon processor-based high-performance personal workstation (Direct link to the PDF). | 24 May, 2006 | 24 May, 2006 | 24 May, 2006 |
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| ADAPT 2006 conference site is launched. This is looking like one great event planned for 23 & 24 Sept in Montreal of which we are very pleased that 3DTotal are official sponsors! | Dell announced it would start using AMD's processors, breaking its long-standing, single-source relationship with Intel. | The Academy announced the winners of the 33rd Student Academy Awards. | 22 May, 2006 | 22 May, 2006 | 22 May, 2006 |
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| A tutorial on High Dynamic Range imagery in Photoshop CS2. | Rendering better cars, a tutorial. | The public beta of Houdini 8.1 has been released. | 21 May, 2006 | 20 May, 2006 | 20 May, 2006 |
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| An interview with Sze Jones, a Blur Studio Character Modeling Supervisor. | | XSI 5.1 Advanced at half-price when bought with 1 year of Maintenance. | 18 May, 2006 | 17 May, 2006 | 17 May, 2006 |
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| Digital-Tutors Releases 'Using SyFlex in Maya' Training DVD
| Digital Domain has been acquired by a group led by director Michael Bay. | A timeline of pioneering uses of CGI in film and television | 17 May, 2006 | 16 May, 2006 | 16 May, 2006 |
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| Robert Iger tells Fortune why Disney was willing to spend $7.4 billion to acquire Pixar. | Microsoft wants you to buy Nintendo's Wii, and so does Sony. | John Carmack speaks of MegaTexturing, a new technology he made for the new Quake game. | 16 May, 2006 | 16 May, 2006 | 15 May, 2006 |
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| An interview with Adam Dotson, Character Animator at Stan Winston Digital. | 100 millon pixels power the most realistic virtual reality room, according to Iowa State University. | The makers of Star Wreck, a Internet-freely-distributed film seen by 3.5 million people, are sharing their model for success. | 14 May, 2006 | 14 May, 2006 | 13 May, 2006 |
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| Blizzard and Legendary Pictures are making a film based on the Warcraft universe. | Activision will be opening a dedicated studio facility on the DreamWorks campus. | Toshiba introduces a $3,000 laptop with an HD-DVD drive. | 13 May, 2006 | 12 May, 2006 | 12 May, 2006 |
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| Bella Online has reviewed Zoo Publishing's latest issue of 3DCreative magazine. | The video game industry, which supported 144,000 full-time jobs in 2004, had an $18 billion impact on the U.S. economy that year. | Disney CEO Robert Iger says ''Toy Story 3'' is in development. | 11 May, 2006 | 10 May, 2006 | 10 May, 2006 |
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| Digital-Tutors Releases ''Comprehensive Guide to Learning XSI 2nd edition,'' an interactive guide to learning modeling, texturing, UV mapping, animation, and Rendering in XSI.
| The Gnomon Workshop is presenting their third workshop weekend, June 24th and 25th. Check out this link for more information! | Silicon Graphics Inc., known for computers that create special effects for Hollywood movies, filed for bankruptcy protection. | 10 May, 2006 | 10 May, 2006 | 09 May, 2006 |
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| An interview with the creators of the CG short ''Fin D'Ete.'' | The Man Who Could Save Animation is John Lasseter, says Entertainment Weekly in a 4-page article. | Behind the scenes of Pixar's Cars. | 09 May, 2006 | 08 May, 2006 | 08 May, 2006 |
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| Pixar acquisition by Disney finalized. | Electronic Arts posts $16 million loss. | Famed director Steven Soderbergh is releasing his next film through BitTorrent. | 08 May, 2006 | 06 May, 2006 | 06 May, 2006 |
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| X-bit labs have reviewed NVIDIA's Quad SLI offering. | Apple releases Aperture update, and responds to recent rumors. | CNET puts a MacBook Pro and an Acer TravelMate laptops in a technical knockout. | 05 May, 2006 | 05 May, 2006 | 04 May, 2006 |
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| This September: The original unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. | ILM is set to convert the 1993 classic ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' into 3D, for release later this year. | LATimes speculates DreamWorks Animation would be bought, just like Pixar was. | 04 May, 2006 | 03 May, 2006 | 03 May, 2006 |
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| NVIDIA Gelato rendering software brings high-quality rendering to the masses for free! | ''Vue 3D Environment Competition 2006'': e-on Software have invited ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Electronic Arts, Darkside Animation and 3D World magazine to take part as judges in this ''Get Noticed!'' competition. | 02 May, 2006 | 02 May, 2006 |
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