Found this on cornucopia.com 

Some nice lightwave tutorials on uv maps, and ice cubes, etc.

Antonio

Newtek releases 9.5



Get it while it's hot.

Antonio

ON the download page only saw the pc version.  32 and 64bit version.

Can anyone confirm.

Antonio

Nvidia Offers Free PhysX Games, Cool Utilities

Got this from http://www.extremetech.com
THis is interesting, Is this the future? 

Antonio


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This image was uploaded with the post Skydrive.live.com.

Hello,

Dave from Tres 3d gave me a link for 5 gigs online.  It's from microsoft, and very slick.

IT's great for doing a project together......Hint hint.

www.skydrive.live.com

It allows you to set a public folder, or private folders, and check mark boxes for people you want to share your files with.  So you can check only the guys your working with per say.

Very slick, and works well.

Antonio

This is interesting.  No cg but some info on film making.

Article found here:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/diy-filmmaker-w.html

DIY Filmmaker Wins Big With Midnight Kiss

By Hugh Hart August 09, 2008 | 

Nice payoff at the end.  Nice character animation.

Antonio

This is a test I did for Mike LIng.  He is single handly creating the ships from the game called Star Control.

He's done several others, and also some of the characters, like the fox species, and the one eye Spathi. 

Antonio

Hey Antonio,

I'm not sure if I told you about this. You should post in on the LW site!  

(Al, you can post to the site, it's not a criminal act you know.)

New York/New Jersey Animators Meetup Group
Event this Friday July 25th.
http://animation.meetup.com/92/calendar/8257265/

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Al Mejias

Al, maybe you can POST a comment explaining what your group is about. 

If you have problems posting in anyway, let me know.  As far as I know all the kinks are basically gone.

http://www.zdnet.de/enterprise/mac/hardware/0,39038647,39192217,00.htm

There are tools to overclock your mac. 

Just thought our large mac based lightwave users might find this interesting.

ANtonio

Reference articles here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Mac-Pro,5784.html

Taken from an email from KURV Studios:

Watch Larry Shultz Demo IK Booster & APS Free

THis is a great example of a movie in the CloverField Genre.

The Monster looks great.  Sub surface shaders really have made wet skin look great.  There is great interaction between the actors and the Monster.  All in all really well done.  Be prepared for subtitles.

The politics of this Movie scare the crap out of me.  Is that what it's really like to live in china.
Officials don't respond, your rights are violated if it suits them.(officials)  WOow.
  Play a preview on netflix website.
If you have netflix, this is one of their instant watch movies. 



Antonio

The below is rendered in real time with ati cinema 2.0.
So in the future you will be able to play a movie, instead of watch a movie.

Like the city background. THe cars look great.

If you look in the above video, the guy has an interface of the city that's in the below movie.
It's like fprime, sort of, but instant. Imagine, the render button is gone, and you just put stuff in
and it's already rendered for you as move stuff around. (near future?)

I have this great idea.
We'll do a whole movie with little dogs. We would match move them into live action plates, replace their faces with cg so we can make them talk. Then we clone them for huge dance sequences, and make a nice virtual set for them. SO we don't have to do as much match moving. How about a huge pyramid, where there are dog statues.
Ya ya, and the lead dog has a bunch of girl dogs that fawn over him. And somehow the lead character moves to Beverly Hills.
Ya..

Oh and lets make it a Chihuahua.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............