Archive for May, 2005

This is called HDR Lighting, and anyone with a camera and a relativly fast computer can make this.

Visually stunning, technically beautiful, and mostly entertaining, Steamboy feels weirdly empty and forced. Perhaps the nearly ten year life span of the project and huge budget had a life-sapping effect. Part of the problem here may be the base premise of steam driven technology itself. Rather than be an interesting extrapolation, the steam tech comes [...]

After months of silent work behind the scenes, I’m very proud to announce the following:
The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, [...]

Broadcast Machine: Publish your videos into channels.
Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to thousands, using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. It is free, open source, and designed for easy installation. Broadcast Machine features an intuitive interface, integrated torrent creation, and flexible channel management. [...]

Interview With Jill Isner. The SWAT Team Lead and former CORE Team lead of Softimage talks about her daily job, the architecture of XSI, 64 Bit Technology and todays challenges in software development.
XSI Base - Softimage XSI Community

An incredibly stimulating set of sky photos with evolving clouds. It’s a perfect reference to draw a dark, fantasy sky.
COOL WEATHER PICTURES

Genetica 2 is an innovative node-based seamless texture editor for professional 3D artists. With more than 500 finished texture presets of all types, automatic seamlessness, and unprecedented flexibility, Genetica 2 will help you revolutionize your textures.
Spiral Graphics Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Genetica 2, the anticipated new version of its flagship seamless [...]

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An Adobe Photoshop resource with tutorials, contests, discussion forums and learning resources.
The Photoshop Guru’s Handbook — for the intuitive photoshop user.