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IN THE MAGAZINE
Create 3D artwork with free software
Get more from free and open-source packages with four tutorials
Fur in Blender
Andy Goralczyk, art director of the new open-source movie Big Buck Bunny, guides you through using the new hair tools created for the film, using one of the major characters as you model. The CD includes scene files and screenshots
Game assets in GIMP
How you can use the popular open-source image editor to texture models, ready for use in games, mods or online environments
Illustration in DAZ Studio
Combine lighting and rendering techniques to get the best results from the free figure-posing software. The CD includes DAZ 3D assets worth over $130 for use in the tutorial, including Victoria 4.2 Base and Aiko 4
Pre-visualisation in Antics
Use this animation package to make an animated movie with ready-made assets, perfect for pre-viz work or machinima. The CD includes Antics 3.1 BasePack
Games development: free for all
A wealth of free tools and middleware is now available to games companies.
Explore the new open-source pipelines and meet the studios who are democratising game development
Selling shorts
You’ve made your film – but how will anyone know? Discover 25 ways
to catch viewers in a crowded sea of content
Whose work is it anyway?
How your control over the content you create could be dramatically affected by a proposed bill making its way through the US Congress
Maya masterclass
Gary Noden explains how to create and animate a desktop pin matrix toy
Your technical questions answered
Applications covered this issue include: 3ds Max, After Effects, Cinema 4D LightWave 3D, Photoshop, Poser, Silo, Vue and XSI
On test this issue
3ds Max 2009 splits in two. Plus: Avastor‘s HDX-800 hard disk for content creators, Director 11 and Zign Track
ON THE CD
Models, textures and video training worth $968
3d02 stock models Worth $679
Vehicles and a coffee maker, offered in assorted formats
Victoria 4, Aiko 4 and more Worth $130
DAZ Productions’ market-leading characters plus extra poses, clothing and hair. See the magazine for an exclusive upgrade offer
Turbo Squid 3D models Worth $155
An eclectic selection of assets from the leading online marketplace
Antics 3.1 BasePack
Complete free pre-viz and machinima animation tool, plus an exclusive reader offer to download bonus content worth $33
Bit Brush Graphics textures
13 tileable JPEG textures, plus a model for enhancing scene floors
Gnomonology video training Worth $8
Learn how to link lights in Maya and save valuable rendering time. Video requires QuickTime
