If you’ve seen 3DW 95's Rick Baker’s cover image, you already know what can be achieved with ZBrush 3. Resident columnist Mental Roy has a love-hate relationship with ZBrush: he loves the software – he just hates the fact that students can use it.
I...
Friday July 31, 2009 Mental Roy - issue 95
If you’ve seen 3DW 95's Rick Baker’s cover image, you already know what can be achieved with ZBrush 3. Resident columnist Mental Roy has a love-hate relationship with ZBrush: he loves the software – he just hates the fact that students can use it.
I...
Thursday July 30, 2009 Teesside’s Animex Awards - call for entries
PRESS RELEASE
Organisers of the Animex Awards at Teesside University are welcoming work from animation students across the globe.
The awards are held as part of the annual Animex Festival of Animation & Computer Games, which this year celebrated its tenth anniversary.
In the six years that the competition has been running alongside the festival entries have flooded in from students across North America, Asia and across Europe.
Justin Greetham, Head of the Animex Awards, said: “Whichever way we look at it, it’s always great to see new work being submitted to Animex Awards from educational establishments which are new to this field.
“For those students and educators working with stop motion animation, Animex is one of the few competitive events which recognises and rewards stop motion animation techniques.
“Animex supports 2D and 3D animation, stop motion, motion graphics, visual effects and experimental animation techniques.”
For more information about entering the Animex Awards visit the Animex website at www.animex.net/awards. Closing date for entries is October 1.
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Wednesday July 29, 2009 Win character design training worth £10,000!
Enter Computer Arts Projects' character design contest, and win a six-week course at the leading UK training studio, plus online Maya tuition
Are you looking for that first big break in the 3D industry? Our sister magazine, Computer Arts Projects, may be able to help.
They‘ve teamed up with leading UK training provider Escape Studios for a chance to win a place on its acclaimed six-week Character Design course, worth £8,500.
Taught by Nick Savy, former senior character TD at Double Negative and Cinesite, the course is ideal for young artists looking to brush up their job skills.
The lucky winner and two runners-up will also receive places on the online Maya Core course, worth £999.
To enter, you just need to submit a character you‘ve designed, and a supporting 50-word statement.
Monday July 27, 2009 3D World 120 now on sale in the UK
In issue 120: Simple and practical things to do with your portfolio to make it a guaranteed job-winner. Plus: software and resources worth $542 on the CD
Click the thumbnail to order your copy online
IN THE MAGAZINE
Turn heads with your 3D
3D artists create tens of thousands images and animations for job pitches and personal portfolios every year. Our feature offers 30 expert tips on how to make your reel or portfolio stand out
Visulise and thrive
Our in-depth commentry and analysis from the CG industry covers the archictural visualisation industry this month. According to the latest CGarchitect.com survey, smart studios can still thrive. Site founder Jeff Mottle takes time to review the findings, presenting his five key strategies for future success in the sector
Practical training for every major 3D package
Applications covered this issue include: Maya, Softimage, LightWave 3D, Houdini, Blender, MotionBuilder, trueSpace, ZBrush, Photoshop, After Effects
Expanded Projects section
Stay in touch with your peers with this month‘s best commercial 3D work
Inspirational imagery
The best new personal artwork from around the world
On test this issue
V-Ray RT, Ozone 4, DX Studio 3.1, FirePro V7750, Quadro FX 1800
Also in issue 120
- Debrief: Bridgestone Australia ‘Gecko‘ ads
- The making of the incendiary plane crash from Alex Proyas‘s Knowing
- 3D legends reflect on life-changing work. This issue: Jurassic Park
- Letter from Soho: Shiny new technology is deluding our youth, argues Dave Throssell.
ON THE CD
Software, models, textures and video training worth $542
5 amazing 3D Graphics models
3DS, OBJ formats
As sold for $360
ShineFX figure model
MAX, OBJ, ZTL formats
As sold for $60
DAZ Productions assets for The Girl 4 character
Poser, DAZ Studio formats
As sold for $87
50 Absolute Textures textures
JPEG format
11 SoundScalpel sound FX
WAV format
As sold for $35
The Gnomon Workshop video training
9-minute tutorial for modelling robots in 3ds Max
Mental Roy – issue 94
There’s more to resident columnist Mental Roy than meets the eye: he may look like a misshapen blue gimp, but he’s actually a misshapen blue gimp with issues about the product placement in Transformers. There just isn’t enough of it, apparently…
A fair...
Friday July 24, 2009 Win a NextEngine desktop Scanner as sold for $2,995
Now's your chance to win a desktop scanner, which you can use to create 3D digital models of real objects. Just fill in our online entry form and you could win one of two we've got to give away.
NextEngine’s 3D Scanner HD makes digitising real-world...
Thursday July 23, 2009 Winners announced for Siggraph ticket giveaway
Were you one of the lucky winners of a Basic Conference Pass to this year's show, due to be held in New Orleans in August?
Earlier this month, we ran an online prize draw to give away four Basic Conference Passes to this year‘s Siggraph trade show, each worth $175.
The contest has now closed, and the four lucky winners are:
Sean Lamb
Colorado Springs, USA
Jackie Villegas
Cypress, USA
Popescu Octavian
Bucharest, Romania
Miguel Izquierdo
Guadalajara, Mexico
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered.
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