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Art film for MTV International Rebrand / Universaleverything / 2009, direction: Maxim Zhestkov, Matt Pyke – cg: Maxim Zhestkov – sound: Simon Pyke / Freefarm

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Planet 51 3D animated feature film, new trailer.

Create photorealistic seamless textures with the new Genetica: seamless texture, animation, and HDRI environment map editor.

A short movie about the plague. Directed by Olivier Dubocage, Michal Firkowski, Benoît Galland and Gildas Le Franc. Copyright Supinfocom 2008. lapeste.fr/

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The econopocalypse has blazed has a path of destruction through every sector of the economy—leaving Chrysler and now GM in bankruptcy. Now, it looks like the wave of destruction is bearing down on the effects industry, too, refuting the theory that this industry is recession proof.
via Computer Graphics World – Casualties of the Recession.

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Luxology LLC, developer of modern, artist-focused 3D software, has created a new asset sharing Web site that serves as a participatory content-sharing portal and learning resource.

Jumping will make things jump. Original concept for a music video.

French short film by three Supinfocom students: Remi Despret, Vincent Courbis Poncet, Jean-David Solon

CG CON 09, educational computer graphics conference with 24 lectures in Digital Painting, Digital Modeling and Digital Animation scheduled for 2009.

Two pictures with the same face but with different contrast. In one you see a female in the other a male. Learning the tricks of visual perceptions surely helps visual artists.

Listen and watch classical music with animated graphical representation.

New release for Luxology Modo with hundreds of news about: animation, modeling, texturing and rendering.

Trailer videos for upcoming 3D animated feature film Ice Age Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, third installment from Fox / Blue Sky Studios

French Roast Interview by Character Design Blog.

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Learn how to transform a pencil sketch into a high-res painting with a 3D feel, with Michael Kutsche

Learn to draw female eyes using Adobe Photoshop with these free, well narrated, clearly exposed video tutorials from Digital Tutors

With much anticipation Paul Hellard of CG Society announced the live reporting diary from SIGGRAPH 2009

CGArena released its June – July 09 Issue with interviews to CG artists, photoshop tutorials, 3D images making-of’s and a gallery of the latest 3D art.

A festival dedicated and designed to promote African Art and animation.

New software can change in real-time the gender of a person during a live video chat by re-rendering his face.

James Hawkins, Senior Concept Artist at Epic Games, demonstrates his production techniques for an in-game creature from the Gears of War videogame series. Training for artists.

Joe Zeno launches a new Forum / Community for Autodesk Softimage. All the best to them!

Jason Ryan, a professional animator, gives online lectures on the art and the craft of animation.

A moving landscape of images and looping videos as permanent video art installation in galleries and hotels.

Kickstand LLC, a character animation and research development studio committedto “moving animation beyond the imagination,” has opened its doors in Brooklyn, New York.

DVD Video Tutorial about texturing, texture painting and shading with 3DS Max and Photoshop announced by The Gnomon Workshop and authored by Neil Blevins

Flipanimation.net Issue #24 is out: CTN: An Animation Talent Expo, MY $9,000,000 PROPOSAL, THE HERB CUP, FLIP featured artist AMANDA VISELL.

Interesting commercial DVD about the wonders of virtual archaeology that presents 3D animations of several great Ancient Roman buildings and monuments.

Practice Digital Lighting with Jeremy Birn’s Lighting Challenges which reached the 19th round on CG Society Forums.