How do we look at film, television, on-line video or real-life events? How does looking influence what we see, remember and feel? Researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Visual Cognition Lab, led by Professor John Henderson, have developed CARPE, a visualization tool designed to answer these questions. CARPE allows to visualize eye-movement data in a number of ways, such as clustering of eye-movements, heat-map visualizations, contours, peek-through, and more. Videos analyzed include film trailers, music videos, sports matches, the Simspons' intro, Formula 1 racing, and more. Watch the videos on Vimeo and find out more at The DIEM Project.

Talented Italian artist Alessandro Baldasseroni teaches how to model a stylized character for production using ZBrush and 3DS Max. More at The Gnomon Workshop.

Read it at Syflex.com. (Disclaimer: expect questions aimed at highlighting Syflex's capabilities)

Read it at Syflex.com. (Disclaimer: expect questions aimed at highlighting Syflex's capabilities)

Jeff Mottle interviews Joe Kosinski on the making of Tron: Legacy. Read it at CGArchitect.

Austria-based artists Stefan Kubicek and Eugen Sares, from the recently founded Keyvis Digital Imagery studio, have released an addon they have been working on for the last year and a half that may prove helpful to Max users who also use Softimage. QMenu is a customizable quad-menu system for Softimage similar to Max’s quad menu system. If you are using Softimage and think that your work could benefit from having your tools closer to your mouse, or if you just missed that feeling of working with Quad Menus, chances are good that you will find QMenu helpful in your daily work. More at Keyvis.

Pixologic has posted a trial version of its modeling and detailing application. More at Pixologic.com.

The Mill's Andy Guest talks about how they used RealFlow to create the water effects for the latest Chronicles of Narnia film. Watch it on YouTube.