I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you’ll be able to view and download videos until Thursday. [...]

“As promised with the LightWave v9 series we’ve added major capabilities with each of the updates we’ve delivered so far and LightWave v9.5 is certainly no exception,” said Jay Roth, president, NewTek 3D Division. “With the addition of a complete hair and fur solution, all new real-world lighting system and GI that is significantly faster [...]

Meduzarts recently published their new demoreel. An amazing piece of finished work is viewable for the public. If you’re a fan of matte paintings and visualFX check out their site. Meduzarts is specialised in visualFX and uses more than 80 dedicated professionals from matte painters, 3D modelers, illustrators and3D artists.
A must see for every digital [...]

"Mystery of Albesila" is a project of a animation film. The lenght of the film, as expcted by us right now, is about 20-30 min.
 
The amount of the people involved in the project is constantly increasing. By now, lots of people both from Poland and from other countries all over the world are [...]

There will now be two versions of 3ds Max on the market. In the new version for the year, announced on Wednesday at Autodesk’s annual Press Days in San Franicsco, Autodesk today announced two new versions of its Autodesk 3ds Max modeling, animation and rendering software. The company launched Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 software, [...]

If you not already had a look, do it right now. Dylan updated his website with a lot of new paintings and matte paintings. There is also a discussion about new Gnomon DVD’s from him at mattepainting.org.
 

We have just released a new interview with James Paick. James is working as a fulltime freelance artists. Here is a small excerpt.
What’s a typical day in the life of James Paick
These days my life was flipped around going into the world of freelance fulltime. My typical day consists of the normal morning routine [...]

Joint Motion Graphics Seminars with Adobe to Illustrate Benefits of a Combined MAXON CINEMA 4D and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Workflow
 

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology.

I just posted a completly new tutorial from our master paitner Levente Peterfy aka Samsonsreaper in the tutorial section. You need to register to get access into the tutorial forums of our community. The tutorial covers a step-by-step image explanation of a speedpainting.
Watch the tutorial Speedpaint Concept-Art Tutorial by Levente Peterfy