SplutterFish is pleased to announce that the 64-bit version of its Brazil Rendering System is now available. Brazil r/s now takes advantage of the latest in 64-bit technology to improve speed, handle even larger, more complex datasets, and provide 64-bit precision for greater quality. Also of note, new images have been posted at the Brazil r/s image gallery.   [ more... ]

Kelly Murdock reviews Endorphin 2.7 for GameDev.net: "... easy to learn and use and the results are amazing and lifelike."

New versions of renderman tools released. More at Pixar.com.

Find out more at CGTalk.com.

Press Release here.

AnimWatch interviews François-Xavier Goby on the great animated short "En Tus Brazos", which recently received SIGGRAPH's award of excellence. A Spanish version is also available.

Read the whole PR at NVidia.com. More on NVidia's Tesla and CUDA at News.com, Bit-Tech.net and Beyond3D.com. Find out who Nikola Tesla was at Wikipedia.org.

The info and sound clip for AnimWatch's second AnimClips challenge are now available. Deadline for entries is July 23. Also of note, the entries for the previous contest are up, including the winning animation.

Michele Bousquet and Borislav "Bobo" Petrov will be teaching a MAXScript class online.

Boomer Labs is pleased to announce that their MAX2AE plugin that bridges the gap between Max and After Effects has been upgraded to version 2.1. Also of note, new animations have been posted at the MAX2AE gallery. Read on for a list of what's new in MAX2AE v2.1.   [ more... ]

Toon Boom Animation, makers of Toon Boom Studio, are offering a new software for creating digital storyboards and animatics. Visit ToonBoom.com for more.

New animated shorts created by students from the French school Gobelins. Highlights include "Chronos" and "Emile and the fabulous little Men".

Arbaro is a free tree generator for POV-Ray (the Persistence of Vision Raytracer) that can also output .obj files.

Strange neologisms brought by 3D needs of the modern age: "Gnomonology" is a resource that offers quality tutorials at an affordable price. New material is expected to be added to the site every month.

Daniel Martínez Lara has posted a UI for Blender that resembles the ones from Max & Maya.

(Updated June 12, 2007) More information posted on Microsoft's upcoming multi-touch based PC. Also of note, here's a link to a previous Bit-tech.net article that discusses research on multi-touch panels and transparent interfaces. According to the article Apple "is reported to have filed some interesting multi-touch patents", so we may be seeing some healthy competition soon.
Getting rid of the physical mouse and keyboard is only a matter of time, and one more step toward this goal was taken recently. Read the details at News.com.

New builds of Cuneyt Ozdas's ColorCorrect and Texporter plugins released, with 64-bit support.

"As a follow-up to the successful project Orange's 'Elephants Dream', the Blender Foundation will initiate another open movie project." Visit Blender.org for more.

Client looking for 3DS Max animators in the Los Angeles area for a 3-4 week project starting immediately. Good people, good pay. If interested, send a link to your work to reg@click3ds.com.

Neil Bennett reviews Photoshop CS3 for Digital Arts (ex-Digit Magazine): "... Great selection of creative and timesaving tools."

Five new projects at Thomas Suurland's website. Check 'em out!

Take a look at some models and animations created by the students from Daniel Martínez Lara's school.

Autodesk have made available the list of 3DS Max Master Classes (.pdf file) to be taught at SIGGRAPH 2007.