 | 3DM Newsletter No. 41 issue: 19 November 2007 |
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EVENTS / FORUM
More impressive CG girls from Russian artists!!!
Small collection of most impressive CG girls from Russian artists.
Low-Poly Modeling No.3(9mm)
We launched our 3rd low-poly challenges. Join everyone.
SPEED MODELING CHALLENGE No. 54 (Fan)
Ok so this challenge is a fan that you would use in your bedroom.
3DM3 launched free Blog for CG users
We launched Blog on our forum. Everyone can join right now. Enjoy
TUTORIALS
Creating Facemaps with Photoshop
This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating customfacial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digitalphotos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped ontoa 3D game model as a single texture. If you’ve ever wanted to see yourown face inside a video game, this is the lesson for you.
This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag arig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigsso that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data todifferent 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video gamedevelopment will find this tutorial very useful.
MAKING OF / ARTICLES
Making of “You'll never have me”
Very useful painting making of by Kirsi Salonen now posted on 3DM3.
The animal within - Cascade
Watch fun ads animation from DigiPost studio.
INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS
Review: Space Navigator from 3Dconnexion
SpaceNavigator is a 3D navigation device designed to offer intuitiveand powerful 3D navigation control for users of 3D applications. Andjust right now you can read review from 3dm3.com.
E-MAGAZINES
CG Chosen | Robots magazine No.6 is available
CG Chosen No.6 | Robots brings to you an amazing world of wild andintelligent, crazy and usefull and all the best robots in CG. 4 chosenrobot artists with their amazing artworks, 5 outstanding robot makingof's, articles and interviews and as usually - lots of robot images.Fell free to download 67 pages of mechanical fantasy and roboticinspiration.
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