Sam Gebhardt, artist at Blur Studio has put up a website with some great concept sketches and 3D work. Check it out!

Thomas Suurland has added 249 new blueprints to his website (including 108 cars and 105 tanks). Check out his two mini-tutorials on how to use them with Max 4 and Rhino.

CGW reviews EI's Universe.
Computer Arts reviews Vue d'Esprit 4.
Computer Arts reviews Bryce 5 (now being developed and sold by Corel).
Creative-3d.net reviews World Builder 3.0.
Creative Pro reviews Painter 7 (also bought by Corel from Metacreations).
TDP's newsletter has a review of Mankua's PowerStamper plugin (available only to subscribers): "PowerStamper is one of those rare examples of a top quality tool for such a relatively low price".

Boujou 1.3 new features include tools for dealing with lens distortion, a batch-processing feature for 24/7 hands-off matchmoving, new scene geometry capabilities, and Flame, Inferno and Houdini export capabilities.
Read the whole PR.

Matt Clark has updated his website with more of his character work. He has also posted a great time-lapse movie tutorial sharing his techniques on subdivision modeling with Max and Meshtools. Definitely worth a look.

"Siggraph, August 2001: Not a Number

Remember our 15 minutes of fame for Fractal Worlds ?
It has evolved beyond my expectations;
Check out Pandromeda's website for one of the most eyebrow raising 'terrain renderers' of late.
MojoWorld allows You to render entire worlds from far from outer space down to just several feet at high quality.
And perhaps more eyebrow raising is the user interface. Very wacky indeed.

Unreal Pictures, the company behind Character Studio, have updated their website.
On it, You'll find the Character Studio 'puppet' walking, running, dancing in Flash. (more...)