“Very soon, users will be able to sit with an iPad at home and make a movie like Avatar,” That's what Autodesk Inc. president and CEO Carl Bass said.
"Over the past 15 years, every movie that has won an Academy Award in the US for visual effects used our software" added Bass.
From The Jerusalem Post Carl Bass talks about future of Autodesk software, cloud computing, the iPhone, iPad and 3-D.
“Something crazy is happening in the world of mobile telephone applications,” says Bass. “A year ago, some of our guys began a project unauthorized by management, in which they adapted the software to work with the iPhone. We didn’t believe that anyone would want to use it, but we were wrong. There is big use.”
Bass said the illustrations created following the use of Sketchbook software for iPhone’s has caused millions of users to consider buying the software.
see full article here
http://www.jpost.com/Business/Globes/Article.aspx?id=197266
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with Google Earth 6, people in several cities will now be able to browse 3D trees in some of their favorite parks, and maybe even pick out a spot for their next picnic!
urban tree coverage includes San Francisco (downtown and Golden Gate Park), Chicago (Grant, Millennium and Lincoln Parks), New York City (Prospect and Riverside Parks), Athens (Thiseio Park, the National Gardens, Lykavittos Hill and around the Acropolis), Berlin (Tiergarten Park) and Tokyo (Yoyogi Park, Shinjuku Gyoen and the Akasaka Imperial Grounds). Prospective students can even scope out the beautiful greenery on campus at the University of California, Davis.
This first release of 3D trees in Google Earth includes more than 80 million trees to study and explore. But we’re not content to rest on our virtual laurels, so look out for trees in more cities and forests soon!
From Google-latlong blog Raleigh Seamster Program Manager, Google Earth wrote:
"Of course trees also grow and flourish outside of cities. In fact, urban trees only make up a very small percentage of the estimated more than 400 billion trees on our planet. In order to tell the greater story of trees on our planet, we worked with several environmental organizations to model reforestation projects and protected forests in Google Earth. Working with Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement, we modeled five tree replanting sites in Kenya. These sites represent just a small part of the Green Belt Movement’s work planting more than 40 million trees to restore the environment and improve the lives of people who are linked to the land."
"We also worked with the Surui people, an indigenous group in the Amazon who are working to protect their rainforest from illegal logging. The Surui and one of their partners, the Amazon Conservation Team, selected some of their most culturally significant trees, including the acai palm and the cashew tree, to be modeled for this project. The resulting 3D visualization enables Google Earth users from all over the world to experience the magic of the Amazon rainforest.
Our third partner, CONABIO, supports and protects Mexico’s biodiversity through an ambitious forest monitoring project that tracks changes in forest health and cover over time. This project has helped define priority forests that need urgent attention and protection, like the two mangrove forest areas that we’ve modeled in Google Earth. These forests that hug the Mexican coastline provide unique habitats for wildlife animals like crocodiles and jaguars that depend on these sensitive ecosystems to survive." added Raleigh Seamster
To start exploring 3D trees in Google Earth, first download Google Earth 6. Then explore our tree showcase, where you will find links to tours of trees in San Francisco, Tokyo, Athens, the Surui forest, and more.
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Boris Continuum Complete is the Swiss Army Knife of Visual Effects, giving Sony Vegas Pro 10 editors the most complete and useful plug-in suite ever created. This comprehensive collection of 150+ plug-ins includes 3D extruded text, keying and motion tracking tools, dazzling light effects, popular film effects, realistic in-camera effects, and image restoration tools. Customizable presets allow editors to quickly create high-end effects with no learning curve. Effects can be selectively applied via channel or region-based masks. All filters take advantage of either multi-processing or OpenGL hardware acceleration.
Key Features for Vegas Pro
* BCC 3D Objects category of 3D OpenGL extruded text generators
* Professional Chroma Key Compositing
* Automated Motion Tracking
* PixelChooser Masking System
* High-quality Image Restoration Tools
* Popular Film Effects
* Dazzling Light Effects
* Painterly Effects
* Realistic In-Camera Effects
* Thousands of Customizable Presets
* Stylized Effects such as LED, Damaged TV, and Tile Mosaic
* Automated optical image stabilization without the use of point trackers
More details
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In this demonstration Andy Davies shows how he sculpts stone details in ZBrush using morph targets!
Check it out here:
http://eat3d.com/free/sculpting-stone-morph-targets
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Beverly Hills, CA (November 29, 2010) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now accepting entries for the 2011 Student Academy Awards competition. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, along with cash prizes, may be awarded to U.S. student filmmakers in the following categories: Alternative, Animation, Narrative and Documentary.
The Academy also announced a change in its foreign film category. Since 1981, the Academy has recognized student filmmakers from abroad by presenting a single Honorary Foreign Film award. This year, up to three foreign films will be honored with medals, the same as in the individual U.S. categories.
The U.S. competition is open to all full-time college and university students whose films are made within the curricular structure of a film program or class at their respective schools. The application for entry is available online at: http://www.oscars.org/saa. U.S. entries must be submitted by Friday, April 1, 2011.
The foreign film competition is also open to full-time college and university students, however, in this category entries are accepted only from schools that are members of the International Film Organization known as CILECT, and located outside the borders of the United States. The deadline to submit a foreign student film for consideration is Friday, March 25, 2011.
On Saturday, June 11, 2011, the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards presentation will be held at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Earlier this year, at the 82nd Academy Awards, former Student Academy Award winner Pete Docter took home the Oscar® for Best Animated Feature Film for "Up." Gregg Helvey, a 2009 Student Academy Award winner, was a nominee in the Live Action Short Film category for "Kavi." Since the program's inception, Student Academy Award winners have gone on to earn 40 Oscar nominations and have won or shared in seven Academy Awards
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Autodesk Media & Entertainment Design Visualization Show Reel 2010
Check out some of the best work in Design visualization from around the world Using 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design and Maya.
Autodesk Media and Entertainment Education Showreel 2010
Wtch some of the best student content from around the world created using Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage.
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The Mercedes-Benz Biome is an ultralight vehicle that utilizes technologies from nature to achieve unparalleled efficiency and seamless integration into the ecosystem.
check out the amazing design of Mercedes-Benz Biome for Los Angeles Design Challenge
Designers:
Hubert Lee
Christopher Rhoades
Nicolas Garfias
Alan Barrington
Daniel Kim
Benjamin Messmer
Jack Luttig
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Matt Follett, designer at Criterion Games, and in-house car expert, gives you insight into the cars you'll be driving as a cop or a racer in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. Each car is in the game for a reason, and Matt will list some of those reasons, so make sure to give this video a listen!
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After 3 and 1/2 years of working on this project and some 60+ images produced by Vyonyx, Sheikh Zayed National Museum, designed by Foster+Partners, has been unveiled officially yesterday (24.11.2010) by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the UK during her official visit to the region
Check out some of beautiful renderings
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Joeri Christiaen and Thuristar show off their 'after-hours' short film project about a fame-and-fortune hungry wannabe hero.
A not-so-brave KNIGHT is on a QUEST for FAME and FORTUNE – legend says rescuing a princess is the way to go. And in those same fairytales, there’s only one way to slay the dragons that hold the fair lady captive: find the INVINCIBLE SWORD !
To reach his goal, the knight is ready to go FAR. Maybe even as FAR as 850 meters
A THURISTAR – LUNANIME short film
Created and directed by Joeri Christiaen
Music by Frederik Segers
Written by Joeri Christiaen and Perrine Gauthier
Developed with Karim Rhellam
Creative Producer: Perrine Gauthier
Executive Producer: Annemie Degryse
With the participation of PMG Worldwide (messiahStudio), Grid vfx and Temple of Tune
With the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
With the AMAZING work of:
Vegard Myklebust, Technical Director
Michael Mahy, Character Animator
Olivier Thill, Modeler and Z-brush artist
Maud Chalmel, Graphic Artist
Nazim Meslem, Editor
Making-of by Antoine Kerninon & Perrine Gauthier
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850meters.com
GEAR is an opensource rigging and animation toolset for Autodesk Softimage. It includes a modular rigging system to easily create rigs for any kind of character.
With StudioNEST Gear you have all the tools you need to ease the work of your rigging and animation department.
Gear includes a complete and modular rigging system that will help you build advanced character rig easily.
Quick overview
How to create a biped rig
Rig features
Download here:
http://opensource.studionestbarcelona.com/gear.html
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In this Making Of, Tommy Wong takes us through the process of creating an older version of Alita (Gally) from the popular manga Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm) by using Autodesk Maya and Zbrush
Read tutorial
http://www.3dtotal.com/tutorial/zbrush/female_character_modeling_motorball_gally/female_character_modeling_motorball_gally_01.php
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After sometime for fixing problem Jeff Patton has just unveiled his new lovely site (where you can find alot of CG resource like: Tutorials, downloadable stuffs and inspirations): http://jeffpatton.net
And also he shows us some of new amazing Cars rendered by Iray:
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Mladost- Bulgaria, Nov 30th 2010, Chaos Group announced today the commencement of the official V-Ray 2.0 Release Tour. The beginning of December marks the first of a long list of major events around the world with their reseller network, at which they will highlight many of the advantageous new features in the optimized version of V-Ray for 3ds Max to 8 countries included: Argentina, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Russia, China, Korea
For more details and information please visit:
http://chaosgroup.com/en/2/vraytour2010.html
V-Ray comes with a revitalized logo:
Chaosgroup has just officially unveiled their new logo of V-Ray, after more than 8 years on the market their main product has a fresh new look. Here it is:
"The V-Ray brand evolution expresses the ambition to create a streamlined and energetic image to impress the dynamic product and company growth. We think this is the right time to give a new direction of V-Ray as the release of the second product version will be announced very soon. V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max will combine the power of our distinguished rendering engine with the flexibility and exceptional speed of the interactive rendering system – V-Ray RT for 3ds Max, now running on GPUs."
The team of Chaos Group explainded
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Ballistic Publishing announced EXPOSÉ 9: Submissions are now open . EXPOSÉ is the digital art industry’s premier annual publication, featuring the finest digital artwork the world has ever seen.
Ballistic Publishing is now calling on artists to submit digital images for consideration in EXPOSÉ 9. Images can be created in any 3D or digital illustration application. Photoshop and digitally manipulated photography is also welcome. We are interested in digitally-created fine art, whether it be 2D or 3D, for commercial use, or personal satisfaction.
There is no cost or limit to enter work for inclusion in EXPOSÉ 9. As with all Ballistic Publishing showcase publications, artists with work published in EXPOSÉ 9 will receive a complementary copy of the book and will enjoy worldwide exposure in the premier collection of digitally-created artwork to ever be published.
The EXPOSÉ 9 Awards
The EXPOSÉ 9 Awards will celebrate the highest artistic achievement in a diverse range of categories and styles. Award recipients will demonstrate an outstanding fusion of artistic and technical excellence.
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EXPOSÉ 9 Committee
The EXPOSÉ 9 Awards will be judged by a highly talented group of industry leaders and artists including: Lorne Lanning (Co-Founder, President, and Creative Director, Oddworld Inhabitants), Brom (renowned fantasy artist), Christopher Sloan (Art Director, National Geographic Magazine), Stephan Martiniere (renowned science fiction and fantasy artist), Max Dennison (Founder, Matte Painting UK), Phil Straub (renowned illustrator), and Chris Stoski (blockbuster matte artist).
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Publishing Details
EXPOSÉ 9 will be released worldwide in July 2011. Due to the rush of last minute entries, we ask that artists with existing works submit them as quickly as possible to avoid any technical difficulties or mail system failures. We look forward to seeing your work featured in EXPOSÉ 9!
ENTER HERE!
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Watch tutorial
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/light_glow/
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Highresolutiontextures.com shares us 5 great foot textures
This Food Texture Pack includes:
Farfalle (Bowtie Pasta) Texture
Fettuccine Pasta Texture
Fusilloni or Rotini (Curly Fusilli Pasta) Texture
Spaghetti Pasta Texture
Twisted Egg Noodle Texture
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In this 2nd part of Digital-Tutors 'Introduction to V-Ray for Maya 2011' we will learn how to work with V-Ray lights in Autodesk Maya
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Recent day we heard that: Transformers: Dark of the Moon is hitting some snags in the 3-D process
What hasn't been reported is that the footage that was shot in 3-D is giving the filmmakers some trouble. Our post production insiders are telling the IESB that Michael Bay is doing some scrambling trying to salvage the footage that was shot. "The 3-D looks like shit and we don't know if we will be able to use all of it the way it is,"
But Michael Bay has posted an update on shootfortheedit.com that There is no problem at all. He has invited the nay-sayers to come and look at the real deal: "Come into my edit room and I will show you beautiful 3D. There has never been a live action show that has pushed the boundaries of 3D like Transformers 3."
"Wow, I read these morons on the internet who think they are in the know. "We have have problems with our 3D????" Really? Come into my edit room and I will show you beautiful 3D. There has never been a live action show that has pushed the boundaries of 3D like Transformers 3. We shot the entire movie with 3D cameras. I actually loved shooting in 3D. I will give full details of my process and why I liked 3D in the next week right before the Transformers announcement piece comes out on Tron and Narnia." added Bay
Hopefully we can see Transformers Dark of the Moon trailer soon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third film in the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is scheduled for release on July 1, 2011 in Real D 3D.
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The 'Bicentenario' has been the most important MTV Latinoamerica' project for 2010, and was broadcasted in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, countries which are celebrating this year their 200 years of independence
* Director's Cut
** The Audio has been specially produced for this web site and it hasn't been used originally by Mtv.
Directed by:
Plenty™
Art Director:
Pablo Alfieri
Animation Director:
Mariano Farias
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3D Design & Concepts:
Pablo Alfieri
Characters Illustration:
Gabriel Fermanelli
Montage & Edition:
Mariano Farias
3D Modeling:
Gabriel Fermanelli & Sebastian Livingston
3D Animation:
Mariano Farias, Hernán Estévez, Leonardo Garcia Franchi & Sebastian Livingston
3D Rigging:
Gabriel Fermanelli
3D Lighting & Rendering
Mariano Farias & Pablo Alfieri
Compositing & Postproduction:
Mariano Farias, Hernán Estévez & Leonardo Garcia Franchi
Production:
Inés Palmas
Sound:
Santiago Lazarte (DeSant)
Year:
2010
Client:
MTV Networks Latin America
Creative VP:
Sean Saylor
Creative Director:
Juan Frontini
Director / Original Concept / AD:
Camilo Barria Royer
Co-director / Original Concept / asst:
Ana María Gutierrez
Creative coordinator:
Josefina Briem Stamm
Production management:
Paola Carabelli
More infomation
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mtv-Bicentenario-2010/794255
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