Real Time Fur is coming very soon, here is a paper and an example application, that runs on Win2000, check this out. This is very cool.
Real-Time Fur over Arbitrary Surfaces, once unzipped check out the readme.txt for more infos about the realtime controls.

"The Animator's Survival Kit : A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators" is the title from an upcoming book from Richard Williams. More infos at Amazon.com (more...)

Check out the home pages of a couple of interesting projects that were presented at this year's SIGGRAPH: AlphaWolf, created by the MIT's Media Lab Synthetic Characters Group (take a look also at some of their other projects) and Protrude, Flow, designed by Minako Takeno and Sachiko Kodama of Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications.

More images created with the upcoming release of the Brazil renderer have been posted on the Web. Check out the sites of Johan Thorngren and Robert Boothman.

Just a short note: I'm moving to sunny California so I'll be off the airwaves for a while. Hope to meet many of you there. Greetings to all our readers and the wonderful people I had the chance of meeting online (from France, Japan, Israel, Spain, USA, Australia, Brazil, Holland and the U.K. among others). Special thanks to Scott Kirvan. See you soon, as soon as I can get my hands on a Net connection. :-)

Enjoyed Shrek? Find out what new CG animated films are lined up for production at PDI/Dreamworks.

CGarchitect has an interesting interview with Henrik Wann Jensen. Be sure to check the images on the right side of the page, as well as the question about his 'disappointment'.

Visual Infinity is offering Grain Surgery, a plugin for After Effects (and AE plugin-compatible applications) that enables users to remove, add or match grain from an existing image sequence and apply it to another one. Unlike other techniques, Grain Surgery's algorithm does not rely on blurring or averaging. Price is $499.