The Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit (SLIK) is an extensive collection of presets, scenes, items, materials and video tutorials to help modo users light their creations. With SLIK, you are able to quickly select a studio lighting solution that mimics those found in the real-world of photography. Instantly your modo renderings will look more vivid and believable.

Massive Software, developer of the Academy Award®-winning 3D animation software for AI-driven characters, has released Massive 4.0. The latest release includes support for popular V-Ray rendering, new terrain nodes, enhanced brain nodes and agent fields, and many more features and improvements.

RayFire Tool gives you the ability to fragment, destroy, demolish, wreck, break down, wreak havoc, blow up, burst, detonate, explode, shoot and do other similar things you have always dreamed of to do in Max.

 AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download. 

In recognition of the critical role played by science and technology in the moviemaking process, the Academy has, almost since its inception, honored the achievements of pioneers in these fields whose work has advanced the motion picture industry. The Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony now generally takes place two weeks prior to the main Academy Awards ceremony.

Date & Time: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST

 You are asked to visualize a small scale private house design – The GH House.

As of December 21st 2009, the newest build, V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4a for 3ds Max®, is available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

Local Motors has announced its new contest, named Alaska Motors Competition, which is focused on creativity and asks participants to design a conceptual vehicle for a futuristic race in the year 2013. The submission deadline is 30 December 2009.

The red dot design award enters a new round – and with it several thousand applicants for the sought-after quality seal, the “red dot”.

Autodesk Chooses SAP® Carbon Impact On-Demand Solution to Help Measure and Manage Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Efforts

Kray is a state of the art Global Illumination renderer that allows very fast and accurate rendering of scenes where indirect light plays important role.

37th ANNUAL ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

 Sixth Sense Technology - several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data

The Hunter Contest

FREE WEBSEMINAR: How simulation accelerates and improves the design of your fluid components and systems?

December 1-3, Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas
AU Virtual Premier Pass - Full access to the AU Virtual experience, plus premium content 

On October 29th, Thursday, the newest builds of  V-Ray 1.50 Service Pack 4 and  V-Ray RT 1.50 Service Pack 1 are available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

Lenovo Virtual Showroom

 Call for Beta Users of 3D Project Tendering Software

 Are You a CG Whiz? Show us Your Skills and Escape Studios will Make You a Star...

The contest recognizes the best digital rendering and visualization designers who use Autodesk design and engineering software.

ArtVPS has announced the immediate availability of version 0.3 of Shaderlight, its flagship interactive rendering plug-in for 3ds Max. Shaderlight 0.3 boasts a number of enhancements over previous versions. Overall speed has been increased by 100 percent for complex production scenes, and early image quality of glossy materials and area lights has been significantly improved. Other benefits include increased image resolution and the addition of a message window to track log messages during interactive rendering.

The robust, powerful modeling tools in modo played an essential role for visual effects artists at Vancouver, B.C.-based The Embassy as they developed alien characters, weaponry and objects for the critically acclaimed feature film, District 9.

AutoCAD® Civil 3D® civil engineering software uses building information modeling (BIM) to help civil engineering project teams evaluate more what-if scenarios earlier in the design process and get transportation, land development, and environmental projects done faster and more efficiently.

You created a point in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and inadvertently entered an incorrect description. Now you want to correct the description to match your description keys and update the point in your drawing. See how!

Looking for a solution to a problem or information concerning an Autodesk product?Autodesk is testing a new search engine which aggregates content from several sources such as support documents, forum posting as well as Autodesk blogs and YouTube.

AutoCAD 3D Conceptual Design 

Although “Terminator Salvation” has sold a healthy $370 million worth of tickets around the world and has yet to be released on DVD, Anderson and Kubicek didn’t make a payment