The BBC has the news.

3D Insider has posted a couple of interesting videos, one of them a live demo of the SpacePilot in 3ds Max and Photoshop, the other an interview with Peter Mitev from Chaos Group talking about V-Ray and Aura. There is also a video coming soon of Scott Kirvan from Splutterfish talking about Brazil 2.

Softimage announced the release of the first CAT update since Avid acquired the intellectual property assets of Character Animation Technologies. New features include a new system for manipulating CATRigs quickly and easily using gizmos, a pose mixer tool that allows you to animate in CAT the same way you would using morph targets, new pipeline tools that include a batch importer to import data into Max as well as a script-based batch exporter, etc. Interestingly enough, support for the 3DS Max plugin will now be provided by Softimage itself. CAT v2.5 is a free upgrade for v2.0 users and above. Find out more at Catoolkit.com.

With TurnTool users can make 3D models available for everyone on the Net, CD-ROM or office applications. Read the whole PR.

Robert Seidel used 3DS Max to create visual elements for an experimental video clip that mixes organic textures with warping and morphing animation techniques.

The latest version of Shoran Software's distributed rendering management system has just been released, offering plenty of new features and improvements. Read on for more.   [ more... ]

Digit Magazine has the news.

Limited Edition Giclee Fine art prints are now available for 6 works by Neil Blevins. Visit NeilBlevins.com for more.

An interesting 3D recreation of the starship from Arthur C. Clarke's great novel.

Josh Staub's first short film, after touring the film festival circuit and receiving many awards, is now available on DVD. "The Mantis Parable" is also available for viewing on Apple's ITunes. Head over to TheMantisParable.com for more.

Read the whole PR, and visit the new "Unbox" section at Amazon's website.

The fine folks from Frantic Films have posted more information on their upcoming plugins. Visit Support.FranticFilms.com.

Créajeux is a French school that offers video game-related courses for 3D artists using Max. They've just updated their website and have added game projects created by students. (French)

New animations created with Andy Murdock's upcoming character animation system posted at LotsOfRobots.com.

3DM3 have announced the winning entries of The most beautiful CG girls #3 competition, check 'em out!

Eric Lerner has posted online his final project for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Mr. CityMen is a collection of five great short films which combine 3D animation with live footage and whose characters are loosely based on the books created by Roger Hargreaves 35 years ago. Lerner made his project in collaboration with musicians Eitan Shefer, Ariel Einfeld and Dan Weisman. Check it out! (Note: not created with Max, but definitely worth a look)

Shawn Hendricks of Autodesk talks with Bobo about his recent 3DS Max Master Award, moving around the world, life and work at Frantic Films, software development, MAXScript, 3D art and more. (Registration required)

As reported earlier, D2 Software have announced a free non-commercial version of their NUKE compositing software. The Windows version is now available for download. Linux and Mac free versions of NUKE, which were not part of the original announcement, are also mentioned now at D2 Software's website.