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Sin City opened back on the 25th of March.  The film, despite it's criticism for over-the-top sex and violence, has been very well received and is doing great box office numbers.   San Francisco based "The Orphanage" did somewhere in the range of 640 shots for the That Yellow Bastard section of the film (one of 3 chapters in the film) and have done several interviews on the web with images and breakdowns.  Why's that cool for MaxUnderground?  They used Brazil r/s and 3ds max throughout this hugely demanding production :)  If you haven't seen the film, do.  The work is beautiful and stays very true to Frank Millers original graphic novels.

Thorsten Thormählen and Hellward Broszio from the IT Lab at the University of Hannover have developed Voodoo, a free camera tracker that estimates camera motion and reconstructs a 3D scene from image sequences. The algorithm offers a full automatic and robust solution to estimate camera parameters for long video sequences. The estimated result can be exported to 3D animation packages including Max.

Treddi.com, the Italian portal for 3D users, has opened a new texture section with 24 new hi-res images (3000 x 2000) for free download.

The latest MAXtreme driver (Version 7.00.03) is finally available on the NVIDIA website.

Valencia-based Keytoon Animation Studios have posted their short film Buckets. It is completely rendered with Maxwell, and uses RealFlow for the water simulation.

(Update) FXGuide takes a look at the HDR capabilities of Photoshop CS2.
Read about new feature highlights, including HDRI support, at Adobe.com.

Ballistic publishing announced that its CG Challenge book 'Machineflesh' is now shipping. Machineflesh comprises of tutorials and artwork from the contestants of the Machineflesh Challenge (16 March - 18 June 2004). Visit Ballisticpublishing.com for more.