Archive Jul 2006 |
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Syflex for Lightwave 3D will be introduced at this year's SIGGRAPH. | VFXWorld previews Mudbox, digital sculpting tool from Skymatter. | Mental Images releases the feature list of MentalRay 3.5. |
31 Jul, 2006 | 31 Jul, 2006 | 30 Jul, 2006 |
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BOXX Raises the Bar with New High-Performance Workstations and ?Studio in a BOXX? Giveaway at SIGGRAPH. For more details, read this press release now! | 3dm3.com have posted up a pretty simple and easy tutorial for enhance your renders in Photoshop. | Digital-Tutors Releases Facial Rigging in Maya. Their new training release provides comprehensive guide to learning facial rigging in Maya.
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28 Jul, 2006 | 27 Jul, 2006 | 26 Jul, 2006 |
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AMD has bought ATI, for $5.4 billion. | ComingSoon interviews vfx supervisor John Knollon on ILM's work on the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean. | ''Milestones in Film History: Greatest Visual and Special Effects'': a very interesting article that gives an insight into the masters of visual effects from 1894 to 2006.
Tip by Dutchman. |
24 Jul, 2006 | 23 Jul, 2006 | 21 Jul, 2006 |
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Animusic releases the second volume of their collection of 3D visualized animations. | 230 visual effects shots in over 13 minutes added to the Extended Edition of King Kong. | ShangaiDaily writes about China's first 3D animated film, Thru the Moebius Strip, set for release in August after five years of development. |
21 Jul, 2006 | 21 Jul, 2006 | 19 Jul, 2006 |
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Microsoft will license its ?TouchLight? technology, which enables users to move and position 3-D images with their hands to EON Reality. Video demos included. | Avid acquires assets of Character Animation Technologies
(CAT), and CTO Phil Taylor to join Softimage. | CG Supervisor Willi Geiger talka about the VFX work in Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon, with ILM's contributions supervised by Kim Libreri. |
19 Jul, 2006 | 18 Jul, 2006 | 18 Jul, 2006 |
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A video interview with Gil Kena, director of Monster House. | Review of ''Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional'', a book that attempts to unravel all of the features of GIMP, the free open source image editor. | Blender 2.42 has been released, with much added features like a new render pipeline, anisotropic materials improved fluid simulation and character animation tools. |
18 Jul, 2006 | 17 Jul, 2006 | 17 Jul, 2006 |
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Digital-Tutors Releases a comprehensive guide to learning the fundamentals of UV layout with in XSI. | Lightwave 3D version 9. Now shipping. | Side Effects Software announces Houdini 8.1 Public Beta. |
17 Jul, 2006 | 15 Jul, 2006 | 15 Jul, 2006 |
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A tutorial on how to use Realsoft 3D as you recreate a semi-abstract image of a raised hand and arm. | Intel releases its new line of desktop processors, and the reviews are in. The verdict: faster, less power consumption and less heat emition. | Autodesk releases AliasStudio 13 Personal Learning Edition. |
15 Jul, 2006 | 14 Jul, 2006 | 12 Jul, 2006 |
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Walt Disney updated its logo and revealed the new one in Pirates of the Caribbean 2. And that it is. | Interested in getting into the games industy? Well read all the information Eurocom have to say for all avenues and applicants. | An interview with artist Jonathan Simard. |
12 Jul, 2006 | 11 Jul, 2006 | 08 Jul, 2006 |
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Bionatics announced the release of version 4 of natFX for 3ds max. | Avid announced version 5.5 of its Avid Xpress Pro software as well as a new member in Avid's line of Digital Nonlinear Accelerator products, Avid Mojo SDI. | Nextlimit released version 1.1 of Maxwell Render. |
08 Jul, 2006 | 08 Jul, 2006 | 06 Jul, 2006 |
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Shave and Haircut 4 has been released. | Computer Arts explains how to recreate the fine details of the torso and arms of a male, in the first of the masterclasses on modelling the human body. | AnimWatch profiles Josh Burton's animated short, The Potter. |
06 Jul, 2006 | 06 Jul, 2006 | 06 Jul, 2006 |
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Marvel announced Iron Man for a 2008 release, and it being Marvel's first independantly produced film under its alliance with Paramount. | More Superman. An interview with the team behind the Previsualization for Superman Returns. | Apple introduces sub-$900 iMacs. |
05 Jul, 2006 | 05 Jul, 2006 | 05 Jul, 2006 |
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Bionatics announces the release of the version 4 of its 3D plant modeler natFX for 3ds max. | Side Effects profiles the work done by five studios in Superman Returns. | Nextlimit releases RealFlow 4. |
05 Jul, 2006 | 03 Jul, 2006 | 03 Jul, 2006 |
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e-on previews Vue 6 Infinite. | Read on about Framestore CFC's work on Superman Returns. | Great news for Vue fans, announcing the 6th generation of their popular software to be released in Q3 2006 - More info and a teaser animation here. |
03 Jul, 2006 | 03 Jul, 2006 | 03 Jul, 2006 |
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The BBC is featuring an article in which it suggests that performance artists bring something to the performance, which a CG artist cannot. | The talented Victor Nivone writes on student interships at Pixar. Read what he has to say. |
02 Jul, 2006 | 02 Jul, 2006 |
