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Feature Film animated in Max

Hyper Image, Inc is in post production on its first CGI feature animated completely in 3ds Max. "Race" is a science-fiction action movie set in the world of high speed competitive racing. Trailers are available for viewing at www.racethemovie.net. (more...)

Comments (9) | Posted Wed May 17, 2006 | source: Rob Brousseau

Software - 3DS Max

3ds Max 8 Service Pack 3

Autodesk have released Service Pack 3 for 3ds Max 8. It includes a number of fixes for 3ds max 8 across several functional areas, including Biped, Cloth, Editable Poly, Load/Save Animation and Primitives. This service pack is only for the English-language version of max 8.

Comments (2) | Posted Tue Apr 25, 2006

Spotlight

Pepeland need a little help!

"Changes" is the latest short film from Daniel M. Lara, and he needs your help. He has 2 different soundtracks, and can't decide which one is the best. Head over to Pepeland and vote for your favourite. (more...)

| Posted Tue Apr 25, 2006 | source: Daniel Martinez Lara

Training

CG Academy releases new Advanced MAXScript DVD

CG-Academy.net have announced the availability of the first DVD in its Advanced MAXScript series entitled "The Matrix: Explained", a 5 hour long DVD from the MAXScript guru Borislav Petrov (Bobo). (more...)

| Posted Thu Mar 9, 2006

Software - 3DS Max

Backburner update

Autodesk, Inc. has posted Backburner v3.0.1, which should fix the monitor crash that can occur on Windows

Comments (2) | Posted Tue Mar 7, 2006

3DS Max Plugins

Helium Schematic UI

Kees Rijnen has updated his Helium plugin (v1.01), a plugin for creating Flow-chart User Interfaces within 3ds max, via maxscript. As his site is down at the moment, you can download the new version here.

| Posted Tue Mar 7, 2006

3DS Max Scripts

AWF Tools 1.1 released

AWF Tools is a collection of generic 3ds max macroscripts containing 11 macroscript tools, the highlights being SymBase, Morpher UberGUI(max8 only) and Modifier Tool. For descriptions, screenshots and files go to http://www.adamwalkerfilm.com/AWFtools.htm. (more...)

| Posted Thu Feb 23, 2006 | source: Adam Walker

3DS Max Plugins

New freeware crowd plugin for 3ds Max 8

Crowd IT is a free crowd choreography tool for 3ds Max which allows the user to quickly and effectively manage and render crowd scenes. The website also has a few example animations and a video tutorial.
Update: due to the amount of traffic over the past few days, the site has been moved to here: http://www.ifsua.de/crowdit/. (more...)

Comments (1) | Posted Tue Feb 21, 2006 | source: Mohsen Mousavi

3DS Max Plugins

RapidSD – New subdiv modeling plugin for 3ds Max

RapidSD is a fresh approach to subdivision surfaces in the 3ds Max environment. Designed especially for the modeling stage, it not only claims to be 10 - 40 times faster than Meshsmooth/Turbosmooth, it also offers a new way of "touching" the surface, along with a lot of smaller but handy features.

More info and a demo version are available here: www.gruesome-arts.com.

| Posted Fri Jan 20, 2006

3DS Max Scripts

SoulburnScripts Updated

Neil Blevins has added a new script called objectReplacer, and has modified 3 others (sLib, made modifySubdivIters and subdivisionManager compatible with TurboSmooth thanks to captainchet!). As always, they are all available from Neilblevins.com.

| Posted Fri Jan 6, 2006 | source: Neil Blevins