Autodesk is seeking submissions for its Best of the Best Animation Show Reel 2009

Expose Yourself

Looking to show off your best assets? Be part of the Autodesk 2009 Best of the Best Animation Show Reel!

Submit your recent video game cinematic, short film, feature film, commercial, broadcast, music video, or episodic projects created using any of the following Autodesk software: Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Softimage®, Autodesk® Toxik™, Autodesk® MotionBuilder®, and Autodesk® Mudbox™ software.

More exposure! More great opportunities!

This year, we are particularly interested in HD material. Of course, video submissions in other formats are still most welcome.

The Animation Best of the Best Show Reel will be showcased at SIGGRAPH from August 4-6, 2009, in New Orleans. It will be featured in our booth and on the exhibition floor.

We are also interested in receiving high-resolution images – up to 300 dpi – for inclusion in our marketing material leading up to and surrounding the show.

The deadline for imagery submission and video content is Friday, June 12, 2009.

Come visit us at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall G, Booth #2201.

It will be featured in our booth and on the exhibition floor and streamed live from our community site, the AREA.

Submission Process
Obtain complete details about how to submit your work, including useful information such as our address, contact information, and procedures to follow for submission.

Don’t be late!

The deadline for submitting video content and imagery is Friday, June 12, 2009.

The latest reveal in the upcoming 401 release has an interesting video by Rich Hurrey:

Direct link - http://content.luxology.com/modo/40...401Overview.mov

Also more at the reveal section at the luxology site: http://www.luxology.com/modo/401.animation.part.4/ - Scroll down.

Rich has pushed 4.01 and rigged a character as a "full featured rig".

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS NOT the final toolset for Character Animation in MODO, its only the pre beginning. THEIR ISNT ANY SKINNING / BONES IN MODO YET. It appears Rich used Vertex Map Deformers on many edge loops on the Bumper Character instead, along with the current 401 additions of IK.

Your thoughts?

Rich talks about this here and more at the recent MODCAST ( near 1hr15mins long ):
http://www.luxology.com/modcast/audio.aspx?id=79

DigitalXModels.com - New Collections Available

May 18, 2009- DigitalXModels.com announces the immediate availability of 3 new model collections- Medical, Gym Equipment 1, and Gym Equipment 2. Each collection is priced at $99. The addition of these 3 collections brings the total collections available to 20, and more are on the way.

We have also added a few more free models to our already existing collection of free models.

Visit the website at www.digitalxmodels.com

Vray RT for 3dsMax

Official release announcement.

Chaos Software is pleased to announce the official release of V-Ray RT for 3dsMax. The first interactive renderer of this kind for 3dsMax will be available for immediate purchase on June 1st, 2009.

Created with the busy and rigorous 3D artist in mind, this topnotch raytracing technology allows immediate interaction between the user and the virtual environment. V-Ray RT follows the user’s actions while working on the scene and automatically and progressively generates a photorealistic preview of the scene. Designed to improve and fasten the artist’s work on the Texturing and Lightening stage V-Ray RT fully supports: Interactivity, Animation, Illumination, Global illumination, Shading effects, Texturing, Camera effects, Color mapping, and Distributed rendering.

On June 1st 2009 V-Ray RT will be on the market through our resellers’ network around the world. The official suggested end user price:

European Union: EUR499
World-wide: USD599

For a limited time only, during the V-Ray RT promotion stage, all users will be able to experience the speed and interactivity of our new product on the special price of:

European Union: EUR249
World-wide: USD299

In order to explore the rendering opportunities of V-Ray RT you must have installed V-Ray 1.50.SP3 or a later version.

Click here to read the full information on V-Ray RT.