Piero Macgowan was born in 1983, son of an Argentine father and an American mother. As he grew up he got interested in Comics, which he soon started drawing, telling the imaginary adventures of his invented characters. Read more
The game tells the story of Geralt of Rivia, who at the opening of the game is tasked to cure the daughter of King Foltest of a curse which causes her to transform into a feral monster. Geralt successfully cures her, introducing the player to the nature of witcher-work. A period of years mysteriously pass ending with Geralt being transported to the witcher stronghold of Kaer Morhen by fellow witchers who had discovered him unconscious in a field. Geralt remembers almost nothing of his life before returning to Kaer Morhen.
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Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2010 Software and the Online Guide to Sustainable Design Help AEC Professionals Design and Retrofit Greener Buildings
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AIA National Convention and Expo -- Autodesk, Inc., announced the availability of Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2010 software, a whole-building performance analysis tool, and the Autodesk Guide to Sustainable Design, a new free online resource for designers that illustrates sustainable design principles, decisions and technologies for every phase of the building project lifecycle. This new product and online resource provide architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms with tools that help simplify and enable sustainable design decisions.
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The Gnomon Workshop is proud to announce its eighth Gnomon Workshop LIVE weekend to be held at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, CA. The event will feature another incredible line-up of instructors and speakers in and out of The Gnomon Workshop library.
See presentations and demos by highly accomplished artists who will take you inside their own personal projects and processes. This event provides a rare opportunity to meet these artists, learn from their experiences, and discuss issues important to the entertainment industries. The artists in our line-up include Jordu Schell, Ben Procter, Scott Patton, Ian Joyner, Paul Richards, Alex Oliver, Chuk Wojtkiewicz, Chris Kirshbaum, Jonathan Berube, Glenn Rane and more to be announced. These artists have worked on such projects as Avatar, Cloverfield, Iron Man, Transformers, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Tron, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Quake 4, Warhammer Online, Warhammer 40,000, BioShock, Hellgate and Darksiders, just to name a few.
Lots of exciting things are happening at Craft Animations and we hope you've had the chance to read the press releases that have been sent out the past few months. Should you have missed any of them please check out our website under News.
Craft Camera Tools
Reduced prices by average 60%
Our very popular Craft Camera Tools are now reduced in price for ease of affordability. This is the moment to take advantage of this time saving investment as most Craft Camera Tools are now priced at only $99-$149! Should you wish to purchase the complete set of Craft Camera Tools including one year subscription of support and maintenance, Craft Up2Date, the priced is only $986! Buy the bundle here
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Lots of sci-fi, the return of a beloved franchise and a wizard named Harry and plenty of robots are part of our summer sneak peek.
1. Star Trek (Paramount, May 8)
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount, June 24)
3. Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros., May 21)
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Warner Bros. July 15)
5. Drag Me to Hell (Universal, May 29)
6. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Paramount, Aug. 7)
7. G-Force (Walt Disney, July 24)
8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Twentieth Century Fox, May 1)
9. Angels & Demons (Columbia, May 15)
10. Land of the Lost (Universal, June 5)
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With Autopano Pro, you can:
- Create professional-quality panoramic images, by automatically stitching photos together,
- Take advantage of the numerous advanced features of Autopano Pro: exclusive system of automatic color and exposure correction, control points editor to stitch images together even in difficult cases, SmartBlend ghost-remover to correct moving people or objects, HDR stitching from bracketed images, and many more features to discover,
- Automate the whole process of panorama creation to spend more time on the field, not in front of your computer.
What's new in version 2?
The current version of Autopano Pro is version 2. It was released at the end of April 2009. It introduced numerous optimizations and new features, among which:
- The use of the computer's graphic card for real-time display of the modifications in the panorama editor,
- The use of all computer's processors for a faster detection and stitching,
- The support of motorized panoramic heads to stitch several hundred or thousand images together, and create gigapixel panoramas,
- A new projection mode (Mercator) and the automatic choice of the most adapted projection mode,
- A Flash output.
A trial version of Autopano Giga can be downloaded from here:
April 29, 2009. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, maker of Vue, the leading solutions for natural 3D environments, today disclosed the new features available in its upcoming professional solutions, Vue 7.5 xStream and Vue 7.5 Infinite.
Release 7.5 of Vue xStream and Infinite will add significant new functionality to Vue 7. Following the terms of e-on software’s maintenance contracts, users of Vue 7 xStream or Vue 7 Infinite who subscribed to a Standard or Premium maintenance plan will receive the upgrade to the corresponding Vue 7.5 product at no charge.
Users who are not under maintenance may nonetheless purchase the upgrade to Vue 7.5 (see further down for pricing). However, e-on software strongly recommends that they consider subscribing to a maintenance plan instead, as this may prove more cost effective* in the long term (maintenance plans include free upgrades to all .5 and full versions released during the subscription period).
More information on e-on software's maintenance plans can be found at:
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/maintenance
Jack Zhang brings us his workflow tutorial for 'Two Mighty Kings', an image he won a CGChoice Award and an Excellence Award in EXPOSÉ 7.
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In this video tutorial Imagineer's Ross Shain shows how to use mocha for Final Cut to quickly track a graphic into a scene.
Title: Sweet little something
Name: Radoslav Zilinsky
Country: Slovakia
Software: 3ds max, After Effects, Photoshop, VRay
SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 28, 2009—Darkest of Days is a historically-based first-person shooter (FPS) where gamers will travel back and forth in time to experience some of history’s “darkest days” and fight through some of the most epic battles in history. To ensure the battles are as realistic as possible, developer 8monkey Labs turned to NVIDIA® PhysX® technology in order to create environments that were interactive, expressive, and as natural as possible.
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CGSociety and NVIDIA announce the results of NVArt4: Surreal, the latest amazing contest which celebrates the surreal art of Jacek Yerka. In a stunning roundup of surreal invention, 301 artists from 65 countries submitted 400-odd images
here you go
Unity iPhone 1.0.2 is out, including player size and speed Improvements, and new splash screens.
What's new in Unity iPhone 1.02?
Player Size and Speed Improvements
Texture memory, Mono runtime and uncompressed audio runtime size have been reduced by up to 50%. We also improved the optimized script call optimization. This makes your games take less memory and run faster, while still looking and playing state of the art.
Portrait and Landscape Splash Screens
New and improved splash screens that you can choose from! Five splash screens are included in every built Xcode project (3 portait, 2 landscape). Just choose the one you want to use and rename it "Default.jpg".
Download Unity iPhone 1.02 update from here.
(Please note: Installing this update will move your contents of /Users/Shared/Unity to the Trash to make way for the demo project. If you have done any work on the default project, move your project out of the Trash to avoid losing any data.)
This is an image that I created for a French art book called l'Univers des Dragons (The World of Dragons) for Editions Daniel Maghen. It showcases the work of renowned fantasy artists, including dragon piece specialists Todd Lockwood, Paul Bonner and Donato Giancola.
source: http://imaginefx.com
A wonderful tour of the creation process of a video sequence for videogame cinematics. The video, directed by Tomasz Bagiński, award winning polish artist and filmmaker, is a video sequence for “The Witcher” game.
This interactive showcase illustrates all the production phases of the CG animated short film: from the pre-production up to lighting and rendering.
Source: www.cgexplorer.com
This workshop has been created by Roger specifically for students interested in kick starting or enhancing their existing skills in architectural visualization and rendering. Although the level is beginner to intermediate, the class is geared towards students who have some experience with 3ds Max and with 3D Architectural Modeling.
Student numbers will be strictly limited to 35 places only. For more details and enrolment information go to Architectural Visualization with Roger Cusson
Course Begins: 25 May 2009
Course Ends: 19 July 2009
Weeks: 8
Fee: USD $499.00
Registration closes: 21 May 2009. CGSociety Members receive a 5% discount on all CGWorkshops’ courses. Go here to learn more about member benefits
Magic Particles is a special editor that lets to create visual effects based on particle system quickly and visually. Ignescent text, flying comet, autumn leaves dancing in the gust of wind, snowstorm and multicolored fog, wriggly tentacles of outlandish creatures, fantastic silhouettes of plants – all these (and many more!) images might not only be created in our program but added to your photos and videos. The program will be useful both for nonprofessionals who just like to decorate private photos and for designers. Want to decorate your wedding photo or add New Year freshness to your movie or banner? There is nothing easier! The program is so simple and easy-to-use that anyone can create special effects of top class just in a couple of minutes and with few mouse clicks.
Thrilling digital artwork showing the close encounter of the hero and a long extinguished angel race
by Sven Sauer & Igor Posavec
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NVIDIA just released a new and faster way of rendering with OpenGL, called Bindless Graphics. Bindless Graphics are changes to OpenGL that can enable close to an order of magnitude improvement in the CPU-limitedness of graphics applications. Recent improvements in programmability have focused on additional flexibility in shaders (expanding formats to include more float and integer types, better branching support, etc.) and enabling new features (geometry programs, transform feedback, etc), and while some of these allow offloading parts of certain workloads to the GPU, they don't directly attack the issues that dominate CPU time.
Bindless Graphics is enabled through two OpenGL extensions. NV_shader_buffer_load and NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory
You can read the Bindless graphics tutorial for more detail.
source: http://www.cgdigg.com/
Mike Corriero is a concept artist and illustrator for both the Videogame and Film Industries. Producing assets as a Freelance artist for various companies including everything from props, to characters, creatures, environments, structures, animals, illustrations, icons, and isometric wall tile designs among other things. Read the interview
Here’s another use for the Disintegration Tutorial techniques in a motion graphics example. I used a little bit of shine or a Radial Blur to create a lighting effect as it burns or blows away. You can even play around with the colors to create a magical burn away as well. This tutorial has a cool method for creating light beams if you’re interested.
Keep experimenting and have fun!
The font is called Avalon Quest!
UPDATE: Green screen footage uploaded for Disintegration Tutorial project.
The background paintings are beautiful and calming but the designs for the town and buildings are not as extravagant as those from Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. The set in The Cat Returns isn't just as magical.
It's recommended more for the must-own-it-all Studio Ghibli fans.
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John Wu is a Senior Artist and Concept Artist for the External Development team at SCEA, Santa Monica, California. Prior to working there, John has spent five years at Insomniac Games where he contributed to the creation of the Ratchet and Clank’franchise for the PS2, and Resistance: Fall of Man for the PS3.
Link: www.therealjohnwu.com
see his art works here
Microsoft is racing towards a public release of Windows 7. The first release candidate will be made available to the public on May 5, the company said.
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Current HD technology, maxing out at 1920x1080 pixels, is still working to gain traction with consumers. But a future home theater based on 4K digital cinema tech may not be far off. Inside, our primer on 2K and 4K technology.
Digital cinema systems have been around for some time, even the high-end "4K" variant. Digital cinema upstart RED, however, is making the high-resolution format more accessible for both filmmakers and theaters. And its technological breakthroughs could trickle down to consumers in the not-too-distant future.
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Welcome to new 3DM3 speed modeling challenge! This week model any ghost hunters equipment which you can imagine in 2 hours to win!
Here you Go
Jiri Adamec shows us how he created his image ‘Girls Experience’ using ZBrush and 3dsmax in our latest Project Overview.
here you go !
The day before spring break we embarked on our second Vancouver studio tour for the class of 2009. We were fortunate to visit four prominent studios, including Miniature Effects, Artifex Studios, Zoic Studios and Technicolor/MPC.
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RayFire Tool gives you the ability to shoot, destroy, demolish, wreck, break down, wreak havoc, blow up, burst, detonate, explode and do other similar things you have always dreamed of to do in Max.
New features in version 1.44:
* NVIDIA PhysX engine support for 3ds Max 2010.
* New Custom properties rollout.
New Custom properties rollout allows you simultaneously set and change physical and fragmentation properties for objects.
Moreover, properties like Mass, Friction, Elasticity and Material are Interactive. It means that you can change these object's properties while simulation is On and get different results. With such ability You can quickly and easily tune up your simulation set up.
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In this demonstration you are about to see a little tour through a real female human body (age 59) from the Visual Human Project.
The shown "block" consists of 1746 x 570 x 666 cells in resolution. It is rendered by a basic GeForce 8600 GT with 512 MB of video memory on top of a 2,4 GHz Quad-Core system with 4 GB of memory. This video runs in real-time.
A Weekend of Entertainment Design and Visual Effects Techniques
June 27 & 28, 2009
HOLLYWOOD, CA - The Gnomon Workshop is proud to announce its eighth Gnomon Workshop LIVE weekend to be held at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, CA. The event will feature another incredible line-up of instructors and speakers in and out of The Gnomon Workshop library.
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CgCoach.com is proud to announce our first official Digital Sculpting Competition. All members are encouraged to enter, so head over to the forum area and get started! There is over $15,000USD of prizes up for grabs!
In order to participate in the CgCoach.com “Critters and Creatures” Contest (the "Contest"), all potential participants must agree to abide by and comply with the rules set forth below (the "Rules"). Failure to comply with the Rules may result in your submission (or "Entry") being disregarded and you being disqualified from the Contest.
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The much anticipated Star Wars MMO based around the Knights of the Old Republic timeline is still quite far from any type of release to the public. Being developed by BioWare’s new Austin studio, it’s so far from release that included in what we don’t know about it yet is its pricing.
“The way we look at these things is, ‘What’s the standard at the time?’ Obviously we’re not quite done yet. We’ve got a lot of work left to do. But we’ll be very conscious of how the market looks,” BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk told VG247.
The standard could be anything, in the West it could mean subscriptions, alluding to the popular World of Warcraft model but in parts of Asia the micro-transaction model for MMOs has really prospered. Regardless, it seems the pricing on The Old Republic won’t be too foreign.
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Video recorded by Maria Jesus, final editing by Neonaut.
Official page of WiiSpray:
http://www.wiispray.com
Two visual books for the movie Terminator Salvation are coming out on 28 April 2009, The Art of Terminator Salvation and Terminator Salvation: The Movie Companion. Titan Books will be publishing both books. The art book packs 256 pages at a very nice price point.
Country-specific links for The Art of Terminator Salvation:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.fr | Amazon.de | Amazon.co.jp
Country specific links for Terminator Salvation: The Movie Companion:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.fr | Amazon.de | Amazon.co.jp
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T-Splines 2.0 beta 4 is now released. It contains important bug fixes and stability improvements.
Anyone, whether they are a paid customer or not, can try this version of the beta by downloading it from http://www.tsplines.com/latestversion.html. You'll need to register for a (free) account on our website to do this.
Current list of known issues: www.tsplines.com/issues.html
A new episode of fxguidetv is available for downloading. In this episode we talk monitors with a look at Cine-tal and HP DreamColor, discuss RED and 16k with da Vinci, see the latest from Matrox and visit with our friends at Eyeon. We also get an update from Ted Schilowitz at the RED user party.
Visit the fxguidetv page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To be notified automatically and have the episodes downloaded in iTunes, subscribe via this link.
EA is doing something a little different this year. In order to emphasize Madden 10’s “Fight for Every Yard” theme, a pair of the NFL’s finest will appear on this year’s cover. Larry Fitzgerald, a wide receiver for the Cardinals, and Troy Polamalu, a safety for the Steelers, went head to head in last season’s Super Bowl and are both considered elite players at their respective positions.
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3D movies, you may have noticed if you spent any time at all wandering around at NAB this week, are a pressure point for new filmmaking technology. That’s because stereoscopic movies have reached a sweet spot where they’re firing the imaginations of Hollywood creatives as well as studio accountants. Digital 3D is leagues beyond its counterpart technologies from the 1950s. Like Technicolor and talkies, it’s an innovation that opens new avenues in storytelling. So I feel like an old fuddy-duddy when I say that I’m getting a little sick of hearing about how it’s going to change the way we see movies.
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an amazing advertising idea for Sanyo by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand
source: www.fubiz.net
Pandemic Studios has declassified a fresh batch of screens from their open WWII title, The Saboteur. Looks like Sean Devlin, the game’s multitasking Irish racing mechanic and Nazi regime undermining saboteur is also a bit of a ladies’ man. Unless, of course, that’s a dude - those Parisians have such slight builds.
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A new build of the much-awaited Windows 7 operating system has leaked onto the Internet. Various reports indicate that the latest build may be the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), which could be made available as early as May 5.Read here
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