MudBox 2009 Review

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The key reason to upgrade to the 2009 version of this modelling software is to take advantage of the new texture-painting toolset.

Mudbox now offers true 3D painting: that is, the paint is applied with brush position precisely aligned to the model surface, so that paint goes where it’s required. It […]

Resistance 2 artists use ZBrush and Maya

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“This was such a huge item,” explains Sharit. “What we basically started with was the rough models. We’d seen some black and white forms, some silhouettes of the creatures. These were really very rough models, set up on a very rough rig. This was passed onto animation to get an idea […]

Maya Unlimited 2009, 3ds Max 2009, ACID Pro 7, and More!

Maya Unlimited 2009, 3ds Max 2009, ACID Pro 7, and More!

Yafka breathes life into Greek history for History Channel.

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Back in 1999, a film project was produced about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer. That was part of Producer Antonios Kotzias’ postgraduate research at Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland. Wild Dream Films, a production company in the UK, saw a story reporting his project and contacted him to […]

Design Fusion 1st Prize Winner created with 3ds Max and Photoshop

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First Prize ‘Fusion’ by Heiko Klug, (Jesar), GERMANY    jesar.cgsociety.org Heiko creates most of his designs in his free time after work or on weekends. Working in a little design agency in Cologne, his daily projects are more the ‘classical advertising thing’. He creativity extends to some photography, 3ds Max and Photoshop.

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A 3-D look down the RabbitHole

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Filmmaker James Cameron (“Titanic”) has dubbed the new technology “the Holy Grail of advertising.” Eric Miller, a digital artist and the director of online training for the Gnomon School of Visual Effects notes, “A new medium for artists to explore doesn’t come along very often, and this is one that really […]

CGSociety reviews 3ds Max Design 2009

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Autodesk’s latest release of 3ds Max (version 11 if anyone is counting) is now dubbed Autodesk 3ds Max 2009. You can buy this release as either 3ds Max Design 2009 or 3ds Max 2009, the former being for design visualization, the later for Media & Entertainment. They are exactly the same software, […]

Creation Engine New Products and Specials – 3ds MAX 2009, Toast 9, Painter X

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Beyond Maya – Horton Hears a Who

CGSociety – Horton Hears a Who

Hartline and his crew largely relied upon Maya, along with various plugs-ins to speed up workflow, as well as Linux boxes. An old tool called Follow Through was plied for tails, hair and anything that would flap in the wind. “Just by turning it on and tweaking the […]

Call of Duty 4: Developers’ Software

Call of Duty 4: Developers’ Software

The majority of artists do their modeling in Maya. The UVs are laid out either in Maya or Unfold3D depending on which tool the artist feels is best. Texturing can be done in Photoshop, Deep Paint 3D, or ZBrush. In fact each individual artist decides what combination of […]