Monthly Archive: September 2008

Unwrella Plugin: Open Beta Release!

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Unwrella is the new automatic and optimal unwrapping plug-in for Autodesk™ 3D Studio Max™. It was developed for the high demands of graphics designers in real world production environments and provides a fast, simple and reliable unwrapping solution. Incoming search …

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The Ghost of Ghost Challenge: RULES

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We’re having another contest! And here’s why: Simply put, we’re working on some really interesting new technology and we need some good looking scenes to test with… and we need lots of them right away The guidelines we’re asking everyone …

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£1,000 Cash Prize for New Winter 2008 Games Competition

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In line with the recent release of v3, we are pleased to announce the launch of a competition for the best game demo made using the DX Studio platform. The prize for 1st place will be £1,000 cash, a Commercial …

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Electric Image Animation System – (EIAS) – 3D computer graphics package

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The Electric Image Animation System (EIAS) is a 3D computer graphics package published by EI Technology Group. It currently runs on the Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Electric Image, Inc. was initially a visual effects production company. They developed …

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Surgeons by Day, 3D Animators by Night

Two busy surgeons at one of the world’s leading eye centers have been working late into the night learning how to use CINEMA 4D, the state-of-the-art 3D animation software used in films such as Spider-Man 3 and Beowulf – in …

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Maxon Delivers Fully-loaded Cinema 4D R11 – raises bar for 3D animation excellence

Next Generation Product Suite Offers Non-Linear Animation, a Boost in Rendering Speed and Quality, Including Re-Engineered Global Illumination, and the Highly Anticipated Projection Man Matte Painting System MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering …

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Ton Roosendaal

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Ton Roosendaal is Blender‘s creator, and the co-founder of NeoGeo, the largest 3D animation house in the Netherlands in the nineties. Ton founded Not a Number (NaN) in 1998 to market and develop Blender. In March 2002, he started the …

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Peter Eastman

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Peter Eastman is the lead developer of the free 3D graphics application Art of Illusion and creator of other software titles such as the interactive fiction game, Episode in the Life of an Artist. Peter has a Ph.D. in Applied …

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Art of Illusion – Free 3D Application

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Art of Illusion is a software package used for 3D modeling, texturing, ray tracing, and otherwise rendering computer generated imagery stills or animations (movies). The goal of Art of Illusion is to provide powerful 3D modeling tools with a user …

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Simulating Self-Illumination Materials with V-Ray 1.50 for 3ds Max/VIZ

VRay materials don’t have a self-illumination setting like standard materials do. Sometimes you may need a vray material to provide its own illumination and there is a way to do that. If you make a vraylight material and assign a …

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