Lucid Movement is a new video blog documenting the world at 2,000 frames per second. Some great footage to use as reference. Check it out!

3DEmotions.com has an interview with the founders and artists of Keytoon Animation Studio. (English|Spanish)

New great images at Raph.com.

The Area has some interesting interviews with Korean artist Soa Lee, Israeli artist Ziv Qual, and Düsseldorf-based Ground Studios. (Login required.)

People around the world exchanging virtual materials for virtual objects. Who'd have thought just a few hundred years ago that things would get this virtual for humanity? V-Ray materials is a non-commercial project that offers free materials from V-Ray users for V-Ray users. The MXM Gallery is a meeting point sponsored by Next Limit for those who want to share Maxwell materials. Both repositories have already accumulated hundreds of materials.

According to a recent post at Autodesk's forums, Shawn Hendriks has been handed the Area in the past few weeks and is trying to put it back on track. He's asking for feedback and suggestions from users.

More great shorts created with Max coming from Supinfocom Arles: Story Ville by Krafft Patrick, Mounie Florian and Nove Marion, and Making of by Chapotot Remi, Tournaire Damien and Valery Aurore. There are many other notable ones, find out more at Supinfocom-arles.fr.

Autodesk have posted the Maya 8.5 help files online. Although it has nothing to do with 3ds Max, we thought it might be interesting for users of both packages, or for people thinking about migrating to Maya.

Bionatics have posted some information on LandSIM 3D, their upcoming landscape simulation software devoted to the professionals of territory design and planning, that allows for fast modeling of an existing landscape from real geo-referenced data. Bionatics will present LandSIM 3D at this year's Imagina exhibition. Visit Bionatics.com for more.

Michael Burns reviews Mudbox 1.0 for Digit Magazine: "... Designed to manipulate digital surfaces organically, it succeeds admirably."

An impressive short made by Supinfocom Arles students Lucas Vigroux, Nicolas Laverdure and Jean Constantial. The March of the Nameless deals with the subjects of war, death and somewhat Floydian insanity, features a dancing devil and surrealist aesthetic. Created with 3DS Max, After Effects and edited with Premiere.

Blur have posted a trailer for their latest animated short. Check it out!

Skeleton Rig version 2.2 by Brad Noble is now available for 3ds max 8 and 9 from BradNoble.net. Lots of new features added.   [ more... ]

From European 3D Festival organizer to Internet discussion board, to news website, to book publisher, to CGNetworks, to online shop, to short course teaching school, to CGSociety, to portfolio hosting service, to online job board. Minus Leonard Teo, of course. The "global organization for creative digital artists" expands once again and is now offering a CG-oriented job board: CGJobs provides a CGPortfolio, cost free for all job seekers, with direct linkages between portfolios and job applications, ensuring employers can quickly access the information they are after. It will no doubt become a great resource for both artists and employers.

Neil Blevins has added 2 new scripts today, pointTracker and imagePlaneMaker (a replacement for the old blurscript Tracer script, imagePlaneMaker has more options and handles incomplete image plane creation in a far better way). As always, they are all available from neilblevins.com.

Because of technical problems involved with bringing installations of Autodesk Certified plug-ins for 3ds Max 9, which resulted in prolonged delay, Sitni Sati have decided to release their own installers.   [ more... ]

No holographic projector yet, but it's only a matter of time. Bit-tech.net has the news, more info at NikkoR2D2.com.

On the heels of the very sad news of James Brown’s passing, the fine folks from Keytoon Animation Studio are proud to present their latest animated short entitled “The Grandfather of Soul", created with 3DS Max.   [ more... ]

Seagate and Hitachi are expected to release 1 Tb hard drives in the first half of 2007. Read the news at Digit Magazine and News.com.

Cebas announced the release of the latest version of their PSD file exporter for 3DS Max. Read the details at Cebas.com.

GPU-Tech launches a free edition of RTSquare 1.3, their GPU-based renderer for 3DS Max and VIZ. Read on for more.   [ more... ]