Mental Ray training: A new videoguide to learn the excellent render engine that rendered the cult movie Matrix.
Mental Ray is very power to create special effects and it is excellent working with layered rendering…

Work at Pixar Studios: what a dream for many 3d lovers around the world!
Yes, I’m sure there are a hundreds of young 3d modelers who think every day in working for Pixar! So… maybe you don’t know, but that’s the moment to realise our dreams beacause Pixar is searching for a new 3d talent!
Here some […]

Rsizr is a web application for image editing, especially image resizing.
Rsizr is flash macromedia application, it works with jpg, png and gif format and its main fatures are about cutting and image resizing. This last feature is the most important and it is based on a new and revolutionary algorithm: Seam Carving
Probably, Seam Caving […]

With the last version of Google Earth new features caming! The most important of all is Google Sky. Googlesky allows us to see the sky and the earth just clicking on the button “alternate sky and earth”…

Vray 1.5 final is out! Some important new features:

New render elements: VRayMatteShadow, VRayTotalLighting, VRayRawTotalLighting;
Increased rendering speed for some types of scenes;
New photometric models for VRaySun, VRaySky, VRayPhysicalCamera and VRayLights;
VRayMtl has a new “hybrid” SSS model;

For more informations look at

Vray 1.5: new features

3d studio features… something is waiting for us.
New Polygon Modeling Workflow, Performance Enhancements, Review Rendering, Autodesk 3ds Max/Revit Interoperability and Autodesk 3ds Max/mental ray Enhancements are the topics covered in the official page of Autodesk Usa.

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Ladiesman217… do you remember this nick?
Yes of course, that was the nickname of Sam Witwicky (Transformers!) on ebay… all begun thanks the glasses he was selling on ebay! So Ladiesman217 is not a regular ebay account… but spite of everithing somebody has got this account!!

Ladiesman217

This account started in Nov-03-2006… mmm… is he […]

[Download] - Vue 6 is a powerful software to simule landscapes… it’s really impressive and you can make a good scene in few hours.
It’s possibile to download the version Vue 6 and the student licence wil be works for ever! Finally a students could be learn this software in much more than 30 days…
The Personal […]

Next Limit Technologies announces that a new update of RealFlow4 (version 4.3) has been released. This is an important update and more than just a bug fix; there are several new and improved features:

The stacking procedure in the rigid body solver is now up to 4 times faster, is more […]

At first I want to thank Charlie Bradbury, from TheEmbassyVfx, for his courtesy and for every image and info he sent me.
I don’t know if the new Citroen C4 Runner spot is available in all tv’s world.. so, before to start reading the post, here the link to watch this incredible Cg work!
- The Embassy […]

Next Limit Technologies will be exhibiting at Siggraph 2007. This year’s Siggraph will be held in San Diego from August 7 to August 9.
Booth number 1537 will be entirely dedicated to Maxwell Render and RealFlow4, and Next Limit Technologies’ representatives will be available throughout the event!
If you have never heared of Real Flow and Maxwell […]

After Maxwell 1500 x 1, Next limit (the softwarehouse of Maxwell Render) comes back with a new great MXM contest for July and August.
The contest’s theme is “Automotive”; it’s all about cars, cars and cars. Bumpers, tires, mirrors, steering wheels, gasoline, […]

[Modeling] Many models start with a blueprint setup… but what’s means “Blueprint”?
A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term “blueprint” has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan… and usually these plans have a blue background […]

I hope you liked my article about PSD2Mat so today I’m going to write something about another very useful plugin: PSD Manager.
PSD manager is a plugin produced by Cebas for 3d Studio Max/Viz that allow to export a layered rendering directly in a Psd file format: one channel in one layer… ready to be opened […]

<< RDG PSD2Mat is a production proven connection between Adobe PhotoShop® and Autodesk 3D Studio MAX® - This maxscript converts layered PSD Files into a Scanline or VRay, Brazil or Mental Ray Material. Named layers are converted to bitmap files and assigned to their respective material slots. >>
Are you tired to create all differents […]

Today I received this email from Maxwell Render Staff:
<< Today is a special day – the birthday of James Clerk Maxwell, the father of modern physics.
This calls for celebration, and therefore we have organized the Maxwell Render 1500 x 1 material bargain. All you have to do is upload a single valid material to […]

Space Time is very nice browser in 3d!
You can do many things with him, for example you can use a “Google search” feature: choose Google search in the roll-bar, type what you are searching for and… voilà: Many pages in 3d space appear!
Space Time allows to search in Yahoo! Images and Google Images […]

FumeFX, a great plugin produced by Sitni Sati, is a powerful Fluid Dynamics Engine designed for the3d simulation and rendering of realistic fire, smoke, explosion, and other gaseous phenomena. It’s versatility, robustness, and intuitive workflow make it a perfect solution for even the most demanding tasks in the computer graphics industry.
The core in named […]

OceanWaves is a very, very interesting plugin to simulate…. Ocean Waves, obvious!
It’s created by Charles Hollemeersch and it’s incredible how it get a ocean model so similar from the real ocean waves!
This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates a statistically generated ocean wave suface. It allows you to set parameters […]

Who doesn’t know it, car drivers provoking each other at the traffic lights to have a race? But what about such a race with two old and shabby jumbo jets on an airport runway? That sounds more like a film - or a computer game.
That’s the short movie Racing Beats, it has gone on […]