2010 CGarchitect Industry Snapshot Survey

As we approach the last quarter of 2010, CGarchitect would like to determine the state of our industry. Following up on our industry outlook surveys from last year, we are polling CGarchitect members to see how business has changed and where it might be headed. This is a quick survey that should take at most 3-5 minutes of your time. CGarchitect.com...

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Autodesk Will Reintroduce Its AutoCAD Design Software for Macs

“The return of AutoCAD to the Mac could help Apple sustain its momentum in the competitive market for personal computers, especially with business customers, where Apple has made significant inroads recently.” CGarchitect.com RSS

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Victorian Government – Against All Odds

    I’ve been seeing a lot more animation used these days for Government ads (example). This one here is directed by Against All Odds via XYZ studios for Grey Melbourne.  I’ve always loved the claymation style 3d animation, especially when it’s done this well.  I also appreciate the tilt-shift treatment. A short spot,...

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Digimation Dramatically Lowers Price of The Archive Model Library

Digimation® today announced that it has dramatically reduced the pricing of its 3D model collections; The Archive™ and Model Bank Library™. CGarchitect.com RSS

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MAXON Announces CINEMA 4D Release 12

New Version Extends Dynamics, Rendering, Scripting, Character Animation Capabilities and Company Introduces New Streamlined Product Offerings. CGarchitect.com RSS

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Iron Man – Viral advertising

I came across an interesting set of viral videos and websites via Darkroastedblend.com that I thought I would share with all of you. They had actually posted on the site that this was new and cool technology, obviously not knowing or looking too into the fact, that this was actually a viral ad for the new Iron Man movie and branding.  Honest mistake these...

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Ethnique 2010 Women Legends Challenge

CGHUB.com is partnering with our friends at ArtTalk.ru, a Russian CG website, to bring you an exciting new 2D and 3D challenge!  This event has been organized by Art Talk, which is primarily a Russian language site, and CGHUB.com will be handling English language entries from our community.  Final entries must be submitted to the Art Talk via email...

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Avatar The Last Airbender – Trailer 3

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Night Parade

This fantastic little animated student film comes from Sabrina Cotugno, a student at Cal Arts.  Animated in Flash, it is full of lovable little creatures and characters.  Simple and beautiful colours and designs.  Make sure you check out her first year film as well… it is likewise as entertaining and masterfully animated. Enjoy! Cghub...

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Scatterhead Vol. 01

Scatterhead Volume 01 is an online sketchbook/art book created by the talented duo - Adam Wesierski     &  Alan Blackwell   oh wait… did I forget to mention that it’s FREE!?!?  Well, it is.  They would LOVE for you to donate of course, which I’m sure many of us will be willing to do. ...

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Firefox 4 Adding GPU-Accelerated Graphics Rendering

Firefox 4 will be delivering GPU-accelerated rendering for graphical elements via the Direct2D APIs on Windows, among many other new features like a new tab layout, new look and feel for Windows and new privacy features. CGarchitect.com RSS

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Brad Peebler from Luxology Talks About the GPU

Brad Peebler, President of Luxology, talks about the GPU and how it might fit into the future of rendering. According to Brad, it looks like the GPU is not quite there and there are still speed increases to be had on the CPU. CGarchitect.com RSS

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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organize; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us. CGarchitect.com...

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3D Rotterdam in the Cloud: Created with ArcGIS, CityEngine and RealityServer

Procedural and ESRI have teamed up with NVIDIA to set up a pipeline for the creation, analysis and visualization of photorealistic 3D cities from 2D ArcGIS data. The video shows the creation of the 3D model of the City of Rotterdam in CityEngine. CGarchitect.com RSS

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Street Fighter Legacy

Fan films of this sort are rarely good.  Even rarer when they are done by Hollywood talent!  This fan film is made by Joey Ansah who is an actor, film maker and action choreographer.  You may have seen him as the character ‘Desh’ in the Bourne Ultimatum.  Fed up with the way Hollywood was treating adaptations of video games,...

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