VIEW conference
The premier Italian CG Conference lists program of speakers, workshops and exhibitors for the show in Turin.

MAAC 24FPS Awards
The 7th Annual 24FPS Awards, run by the Maya Academy of Advanced kinematics is Calling for Entries. One month to go.

The Art of God of War 3
Ballistic’s latest Game Art book, ’The Art of The God of War 3’. Now available to Pre-Order.

Plugin Updates: Mankua plugins for Max 2011
Mankua have updated their great free plugins Stress, ViewTools and PowerStamper for use in Max 2011 (32-bit and 64-bit).

New Plugin: Motion2 v1.0 from David Baker
This is exactly the same as the motion.dlc that ships with Max, except that it adds another 16 MIDI tracks to the controller.You’ll need to rename the ...

Plugin Update: Krakatoa v1.6.0.43178 from Prime Focus Software
Changes for v1.6.0.43178 are:- Increased performance of particle loading, lighting, matting and rendering- New Shadow Generation Workflow introducing ...

Plugin Update: Point Cloud Tool v1.01 from Autodesk, Inc.
Changes for v1.01 are:- Reloading a saved .max file with a point cloud now refreshes/loads the source cloud data- Render LOD -> Custom LOD now works- ...

i3DTutorials releases Introduction to Polygon Modeling: 3dsMax 2011
Miami, FL - September 2010 i3DTutorials announces their latest training product for Autodesk 3dsMax 2011, Introduction to Polygon Modeling: 3dsMax 2011". ...

Blender 2.5 Quizzes
An enjoyable little time-waster_ test your Blender 2.5 knowledge with a Blender quizz. Right now there are four quizzes to take, and more will appear ...

Analysis of early video games: from Space Invaders to Donkey Kong
An interesting series of articles by game theorist Eric-Jon Rossel Tairne in which he examines the relationship between the game-world and the player ...

ReelSmart Motion Blur 4 OFX plugin
RE:Vision Effects has released the latest version of their plugin for compositing applications for adding (and removing) motion blur in post. The new ...

MRProfiler
A plugin by the AFK team that produces as output a heatmap and a threadmap of the rendering process in Mental Ray. The heatmap shows visually the amount ...

3DS Max Hot Box
A script by Australian artist David Mackenzie for speeding up your workflow that brings a Maya-style Hotbox to 3DS Max.

Frowser
A script by Raphael ‘Insanto’ Steves that offers Max functionality in a file browser.