CGArena : July 2008 Animation News Archives

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2008

July 08

31.07.2008	Comedy Series: Angry Dog It’s about small, pissed off dog who hates his job and just about everything else. You’ll laugh your ass off!
31.07.2008	Activision cans Ghostbuster Game Activision Blizzard has submitted its latest release schedule with no mention of many forthcoming titles	31.07.2008	ButterflyNetRender 4.11 A popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Modo, 3DSmax, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects and more
29.07.2008	Wacky Video Game Characters Contest CGArena, iZ3D and MTBS is proud to present this challenge. Take your virtual 3D art, and let people see it in TRUE 3D!	30.07.2008	Pigeon Impossible: Part 3 This third part contains 2 podcasts from the film, hope you will enjoy this informative thing
28.07.2008	Spring Break Usually we soften portraits, but not this time. We are going to crack it up in Photoshop. Big time..	29.07.2008	Labor Series: Unpaid Artists Dave Rand talks to a group of 100 artists owed a million dollars in wages from work done on Journey to the Center to the Earth
28.07.2008	Toon Boom Studio 4.5 Announced Toon Boom is ideal for individuals looking for an all-in-one animation software and now available with more features	28.07.2008	Six Tuts on Light and Shade This tutorial series is intended to be used with mental ray for Autodesk Maya 8.5. So, read and enjoy if you like
24.07.2008	Recreating Iraq in Photoreal CG Photorealism was the goal for the vfx. Previs and animatics were used for the key shots in the Superhighway sequences	25.07.2008	Sculpting Series Part 3 This is the third part of learning Sculpting in ZBrush, and you can learn sculpting from these video tutorials
23.07.2008	Dark Knight: Imax, Effects and That Bike We focus on the work of Double Negative and drill down on the Bat Pod motorbike chase	23.07.2008	Detailed Head Modeling To follow this detailed tutorial you should have at least a basic knowledge of working in 3D environment
22.07.2008	Talented Artists Demo Reels CGArena proudly adds more quality demo reel in the section, now upcoming artists learn, inspire and get hired	23.07.2008	Archinteriors Vol 1 for Cinema 4D Take a look at those 10 textured and shadered visualization scenes ready to be rendered
21.07.2008	Pigeon Impossible: Part 2 In this second part watch out the explained behind the scenes from the short film by Lucas Martell	22.07.2008	Making of the City Bertrand Benoit helps us to understand how to make a sci-fi animation and still using Blender and Indigo
21.07.2008	Unpaid FX artists in the Film Those worked on the film - Journey to the center of the earth thinking where their paychecks are	21.07.2008	BlurBeta Tools are back Since Blur now uses both Max and XSI, Both Max and XSI tools are available for download
18.07.2008	Learn Sculpting in ZBrush - Part 2 This is the second part of learning Sculpting in ZBrush, and you can learn sculpting from Jason Welsh videos	19.07.2008	Fable of the Night - Matte Painting Learn how an artist created a digital matte painting in photoshop using various stock photos
18.07.2008	Houdini 9.5 Goes Gold Side Effects Software, is pleased to announce the release of Houdini 9.5 and this release introduces Houdini for Mac	18.07.2008	The Storyboards of Wall-E Derek Thompson explains the process of the Story department and presents a look at some of WALL-E's storyboards
17.07.2008	How the Dark Knight Went IMAX You haven’t seen this film, unless you’ve seen it in IMAX, over 20 minutes of the film was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras	17.07.2008	Interview with Dave Cardwell Mudbox developer talks about what type of performance enhancements can we expect in the next release of the software
16.07.2008	Interview with George Hull George Hull's list of movies that he has worked on reads like a kid's dream: Speed Racer, WALL-E, Finding Nemo	17.07.2008	Introducing Pixila 3.0 Pixila is envolving to Version 3.0 featuring over 100 new improvements and functions and will launch pm 1st Sep 2008
15.07.2008	Smashing Effects in The Incredible Hulk Crashing, breaking, shooting, bleeding and smashing – these are just a few of the many vfx created by R&H	16.07.2008	How to Build - a Next Gen Game Car This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset in maya
14.07.2008	Learn Sculpting in ZBrush - Part 1 These videos tutorial series by Jason Welsh will teach you sculpting in ZBrush from starting, best way to learn ZBrush	15.07.2008	22 Awesome Tutorial Sites Here is a list of some of the awesome tutorial sites on web for Graphics Design and definately help you a lot
14.07.2008	Video is shot with Lasers Radiohead, never ones to shy away from trying new things, has shot its new video without using cameras at all	14.07.2008	Create 3D Virtual Gallery How to build a virtual gallery quickly and publish it for the Internet, so easily create your own Virtual gallery / Portfolio
11.07.2008	Autodesk 3dsmax 2009 Service Pack 1 3ds Max 2009 Service Pack 1 includes a number of fixes for Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 across several functional areas	12.07.2008	Rigging a Rubik Cube Using little scripting, you'll end up with a fully rigged and easily animatable Rubik's cube system
11.07.2008	3D Movie Premier Contest iZ3D is pleased to announce that throughout 2008 it will be sponsoring several 3D movie premier night events	11.07.2008	Siggraph 2008 announces First Speaker SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 is pleased to announce its first featured speaker, Prof. Don Greenberg
10.07.2008	VFX in Journey to the Center of the Earth VFX studio Frantic Films VFX, a division of Prime Focus, recently served as a lead vfx provider for the forthcoming feature film	10.07.2008	Pigeon: Impossible Podcast - Part 1 Director/Animator Lucas Martell has started a video podcast covering the creation of his short film
09.07.2008	Intel, Dreamworks form Alliance Intel and DreamWorks Animation have entered into a strategic alliance aimed at developing 3D technology and techniques	09.07.2008	Making of Wood/Concrete WC... Create a simple and modern Bathroom in 3ds max for the client with lots of concrete and wood
08.07.2008	Archexterior Vol 9 is available Have you ever wanted to make professional exterior renderings? Have you ever had problems with composition?	09.07.2008	Ubisoft acquires VFX studio behind 300 Ubisoft announces the acquisition of Hybride Technologies, the VFX studio behind the blockbuster films 300, Sin City
07.07.2008	Video Tutorial: Rendering with Radiosity Focus on using the powerful Radiosity feature in 3dsMax 2009 to reproduce the natural light phenomenon	07.07.2008	Softimage announces XSI 7 Introduces ICE (Interactive Creative Environment), that transforms XSI into a powerful and flexible open platform
04.07.2008	Making of the Steam Master This tutorial will present the workflow used by the character artists creating a Next Gen character	07.07.2008	Next-Gen Texturing Techniques Explaining the very fundamentals of using Photoshop for texturing and from there goes into depth about everything
03.07.2008	Interview with Lots of Robots Autodesk's Area interviews Andy Murdock and talks to him about his animation company, Lots of Robots	04.07.2008	Duber.tv Launched Duber Studio launched a tutorials server, which provide the free video training through modern streaming technology
03.07.2008	The123d Portfolio System The portfolio system has just got even better ! Now you can add your comments, personalise your pages & your avatar	03.07.2008	IT's Art Vol 02-2008 Released IT’S ART new quaterly edition is now online. Available in Printed or PDF format, featured a selection of interviews
02.07.2008	Understanding the Lights - Part 4 In this tutorial we will light up an interior scene which should help you understand how lights works	02.07.2008	LuxRender - GPL unbiased renderer This is a new, open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis
01.07.2008	Bodypaint 3D helps in Hulk MAXON BodyPaint 3D Helps Rhythm & Hues Unleash its Creative Power on the Feature Film, The Incredible Hulk	01.07.2008	Making of PV-3 Jet In this making going to show all parts of the work and also going to point on mistakes that artist have made