3D ART: Two talents collide

| Artwork, Showcase | 18/05/2013 14:00pm dinnerdream

A joint effort where character modelling skills and environment creation combine to create a fun image. Buon appetito!

Friday Animation Fun: Alfred Imageworks’ Counter Strike 2 online cinematic

| Games, Showcase | 17/05/2013 15:11pm counter_strike

Watch the fast-paced CGI animated promo piece for Counter Strike Online 2 created by the talented artists at Alfred Imageworks for South Korean developer Nexon and read about the pipeline used to create it…

3D World reader gallery: Tzanko the boxer

| Artwork, Showcase | 17/05/2013 14:00pm boxer-crop

A personality was born the day Sergey finished this render. Tzanko the Boxer could come to life at any moment – and if he did we’d run to the hills!

Cool VFX: DirecTV’s new app

| Commercial, Making of, Shorts, Showcase | 17/05/2013 14:00pm 3dw167projects4

This new 30-second animation from international media studio Kompost introduces Viggle

Movies to watch for 2013: Pacific Rim – watch the new trailer here

| Movies, Showcase | 17/05/2013 11:00am pacific-rim

Watch the first trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s epic sci-fi movie here and let us know what you’d like to know about the film…

LightWave tutorial: Make icicle-like fur and hair

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 16/05/2013 14:45pm 3dw167qa3

Neil MacCormack breaks out LightWave 11’s new FiberFx tool to create a hairy monster

Groundbreaking studio: Piranha

| Showcase, Visualisation | 16/05/2013 14:42pm Piranha

Meet Piranha, winner of the CG Awards Arch-Viz Animation Award 2012 for The New World Trade Center project, and find out what makes a great arch-viz animation…

Material gain: from our reader gallery

| Artwork, Showcase | 16/05/2013 14:00pm onelastlookcrop

A steep learning curve for artist Carlos who had to really work on his cloth simulation skills to perfect this image

Meet the artist: Tyler Russo

| Artwork, Showcase | 15/05/2013 15:31pm knightmodelcrop

Here we meet Tyler Russo – a young talent whose work Frank the Death Knight totally impressed us. Read on to find out how such a young person came to be producing 3D art that wows like this does

Behind the scenes: Oz the Great and Powerful

| Features, Making of, Movies | 15/05/2013 14:46pm 3dw168featoz

In Oz the Great and Powerful, Sony Pictures Imageworks conjures a CGI vision of an iconic fantasy world. James Clarke discovers the magic behind the effects

Gun-totin’ game character from our gallery

| Artwork, Showcase | 15/05/2013 14:00pm ginnycropface

An image based on a game character from the game AVA Online – meet the gun-toting Ginny

Cool VFX: The Salvation Army’s ‘Simple Dreams’

| Commercial, Making of, Shorts, Showcase | 14/05/2013 14:16pm 3dw167projects3

The message ‘helping make dreams come true’ is brilliantly encapsulated in this new spot

Pick of the Week

| Shorts, Showcase | 14/05/2013 14:00pm elmonstruo

You will love Rob Redman’s pick this week. It is 100% CG even though it looks like a cardboard stop-motion piece. Clever and memorable

Buy the latest issue of 3D World today with one of our digital editions

| Latest Issue, Magazine | 14/05/2013 12:00pm coverdigitaleditions

Wherever you are in the world you can buy the latest issue of 3D World today with one of our digital editions

Win a copy of iClone Animation Pipeline!

| Competitions, Magazine | 13/05/2013 16:01pm comp8

Enter now for your chance to win one of four copies of this groundbreaking real-time animation toolkit worth $4,795!