Tetris is one of most famous videogames of the story. In 2004 BBC made a fantastic documentary where explains how Tetris grew: From Russia with love.
Tetris was invented in 1995 by Alexey Pazhitonov but… it’s better you watch this great video!
Have you fun!

Video: Story of tetris

Tags: videogames, tetris, documentary

How many time have you had problems modeling a car? Sometimes Blueprints hide the model and you have to hide/unhide very often to go on with your model.
See this excellent tutorial on 3dtotal: with Photoshop and 3d studio max you can create a transperent blueprint!!!

Very useful to model cars: Transparent Blueprints - tutorial

Enjoy it!
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Finally a new Scrat’s adventures video! Blu sky studios produced a very amazing cg short movie. Casually Scrat discovers a time machine and use it.
The adventures to save his nut are just starting!
Very very funny… don’t miss it!

Video: No time for nuts (Updated)

Tags: ice age, cg animation, short movie

This kind of image is very, very popular, created with vray or maxwell render, final render or mental ray… that’s no important thing. The detail is very high but it’s no hand made of course!
Years ago Tom hudson wrote a very useful plugin for 3d studio max named Greeble.
It’s very easy to use: you […]

Via Pixar animation, a very funny and interesting blog about Pixar news,I found a fantastic window visor.
Just two eyes to transform your car… in Cars character! This post speak about a product you could find in a Disney store but on-line I could’n fint it.
I found a post on Ebay: Cars window […]

I would suggest to all of you a great blog I found on the internet: Upcoming Pixar. Congratulations to Thomas, the blogger.
It’s all about the Pixar world: the upcoming movies, the sketches, the wallpapers… and many, many more Pixar related things for everyone who loves Pixar.

Don’t miss Upcoming Pixar

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What’s Mudbox? “Introducing a new direction in high resolution sculpting software, Mudbox is the first brush-based sculpting tool built from the ground up to address the needs of professional digital sculptors.”
Mudbox appears for the first time at Siggraph 2006, it’s a professional evolution of Z-Brush. Mudbox is incredible, it can manipulate millions of polygon. In […]

I already wrote about Cubic Tragedy, the best short-movie at Eletronic Theater in Siggraph 2005. But there was many great productions that you have to watch: One of these is Gopher Broke! It’s a Blur studio production and Jeff Fowler is the director.

You can see the short-movie here: Gopher broke - Siggraph 2005

It’s very […]

Everyone knows that on www.cgsociety.org there are the most beautiful renderings around the world, but I’ve never seen a face modeled so perfectly, so photorealistic. Here the links to see the final artwork and the work in progress too. The author says that it was just a challenge between friends…. no words: Just incredible! (But […]

The Chubb-Chubbs is a very funny short-movie produced by Imageworks (Sony pictures), this is their first work totally in Computer Graphic. The Chubb-Chubbs wins many awards for this reason I propose you to watch it. Very impressive the Charactering.
Here same link:

Chubb-Chubbs Official site
Short-movie: The Chubb-Chubbs (English version)

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In this tutorial I mean explain in details the technics I learnt to create a Photorealistic scene. I don’t like you reproduce my technic in the same way, but this tutorial could be a starting point to develope your method… [ read next ]
Software: 3d studio max, vray
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If you want to understand better how to set the new vray plugins: vraysun and vraysky please read the following tutorials. They are in Spanish language but very easy to undestand. There are many images to explain the concepts.

Official examples by Chaosgroup
Vraysun and vraysky settings
Tutorial by Neozenit from 3dsymax.org

Tutorial part 1: Vray sky (Spanish)
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3d studio 9 is almost ready to coming out.
You already could find same news on the Autodesk official site. 64-bit Release for Windows, Easily Render Realistic Scenes, Layered Animation, Character Animation Workflow Improvements, Pro Booleans, Hair and Cloth Improvements and others features more.
I suggest you some link:

News 3ds 9 - USA [ Short […]

Thanks to wordpressmania.it I have knew an interesting Wordpress Theme very useful to create a personal portfolio.
It’s a theme that convert wordpress in a Photolog. You just have to install wordpress (wordpress.org for any reference ) and after you simply upload Desenfoque theme.
Here the link and… good portfolio to all of you!

Word-press theme: Desenfoque

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