Take a look at these animations illustrating some of Henrik Wann Jensen's research work.

Blizzard has posted another *awesome* trailer online. This one belongs to their new World of Warcraft multi-player, online role-playing game. A movie of the actual gameplay is also available.

Some interesting Max shaders have been posted lately. Check out Next Limit's, Willi Hammes' and Yoshee & Roy's shader pages.

After years of waiting, PMG has finally announced the arrival of their Messiah:studio. PMG also announced that a special advance release of Messiah:studio will ship in the first week of October 2001 and is available to anyone who is already scheduled to receive Messiah:studio, or anyone who purchases it before October 1, 2001. Many more details have been disclosed regarding PMG's animation and rendering package: Messiah:studio will feature a hierarchical expressions system, an integrated particle system (with real-time OpenGL motion blur), nonlinear animation editor, OpenGL supported toon shader, interactive (real-time) soft body dynamics, Renderman RIB output, etc. Messiah:studio is priced at $1395.

Monsieur Cinema has a short but nice interview with Guillaume Areto, art director at Dreamworks (French).

Chaotic Dimension [Chaos Group | Dimension DESIGN Animation Group] have updated their gallery with new pictures from VRay, SHAG:Hair, f-Edge and their realtime game FreeGen.

Check out this new animated short done 100% with 3ds max by Anders Pedersen, John Haarup and S

Robert McNeel & Associates announced the release of Rhino 2.0, the latest version of their NURBS modeling software. There are lots of new features in this release, including hundreds of new modeling and editing commands, enhanced object snaps and selections, support for more import and export file formats and scripting capabilities through VBScript and JScript. A detailed list of features is available at Rhino3d.com. A plugin for importing Rhino 2.0 meshes into 3ds max 4 is already available. (more...)