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Brickyard VFX Creates Fantasy Worlds for Yahoo!

 Brickyard VFX recently completed work on the "Yahoo! Lip Sync" campaign from ad agency Goodby and prodco Hungry Man.

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Broadcast/web spots for J. Walter Thompson Shanghai and their clients at NetEase

Animation studio Nathan Love (www.NathanLove.com) is very proud to detail its collaborations with director Willis Wong, Lunar Films and Hopr in producing two broadcast/web spots for J. Walter Thompson Shanghai and their clients at NetEase.  The innovative spots starring celebrity Jay Chou and promoting Fantasy Westward Journey, one of China's most popular online games, recently debuted in high-profile broadcast and cable outlets across China.  

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Brickyard VFX Builds Stellar Effects for Panasonic

Brickyard’s bi-costal teams joined forces with ad agency Arnold and prodco Untitled to promote the new Panasonic 3D HD VIERA TV

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Spots from fun-loving animation studio Nathan

 Spots from fun-loving animation studio Nathan

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Tripod3D Real Time Architectural Animations

Tripod3D LLC is proud to announce a revolutionary new way to visualize your project in Real-Time. Utilizing latest game engine, Tripod3D can visualize your concepts with striking quality and realism... all in Real-Time. No more following pre-determined camera animations with limited duration. You have full freedom to roam around and interact in your own creation without sacrificing quality.

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Volkswagen will acquire Italdesign Giugiaro

Automotive News Europe has revealed that Volkswagen will buy a majority stake in Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A., the Italian design firm. This acquisition will contribute to the German company's plan to be the world's largest carmaker by 2018.

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Auto(r) 2010 Design Conference

An image gallery of the selected entries for the Auto(r) 2010 Design Challenge. The winner of the contest was amateur Croatian designer Zdenko Vukoja with a design study of a Citroën compact modular vehicle.

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Fox Announces Ice Age 4: Continental Drift

20th Century Fox has officially announced a 3D Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth installment in the CGI franchise for July 13, 2012.

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Brand New School Delivers Online Commercial and Interactive Content for Young & Laramore's New "License to Dream" Campaign for Brizo

Produced under the creative direction of advertising agency Young & Laramore (Y&L) as part of its Brizo "License to Dream" campaign, contributions from BNS include a :30 PreRoll entitled "License to Dream," as well as a thematically-related interactive touch installation at McCormick Place in Chicago for Brizo's exhibit at the recent Kitchen & Bath Industry Show.

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Stardust Directs Cinematic Journey for the Ford 2011 Mustang

Directed by Stardust's Jake Banks, TV and Cinema Spot for Team Detroit Fuses Seductive Camera Work and Aggressive Type Treatments

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch event

Adobe Evangelist Terry White demos the hottest new CS5 features for designers, including new features in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, and Flash Catalyst.

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Broadcast spot for landmark Broadway musical "FELA!"

Broadcast spot for landmark Broadway musical "FELA!"

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Tri-dimensional Industrial Design Contests!

Tri-dimensional Industrial Design Contests! 

Win a trip to New Zealand (sharp left at Australia)
 
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Counting down to your first look at CS5

Counting down to your first look at CS5

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LG's Design The Future Competition

LG Mobile Phones in partnership with crowdSpring and Autodesk have launched a design competition called "Design the Future" which asks to imagine the next generation of mobile communication. The contest is opes to US residents and features more than $80,000 in prizes.

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Studio accurate lighting and reflection setups for modo

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.

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Massive 4.0, Supporting V-Ray Rendering, is Now Available

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.

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RayFire Tool plugin for 3ds Max 9, 2008, 2009 and 2010

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.

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AUGIWorld Magazine's Latest Issue - Now Available for Download

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

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Scientific & Technical Awards Winners

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.

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Entertainment Webcast Series: Autodesk 3ds Max Tips & Tricks

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

 
Keynote Speaker: Louis Marcoux, Gary M. Davis and Mark Noland
 
To register for this webcast, simply fill out the form below.
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Architectural Visualization Challenge
 You are asked to visualize a small scale private house design – The GH House.
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V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4a for 3ds Max® is released

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.

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Alaska Motors Competition

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.

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red dot award: product design 2010
The red dot design award enters a new round – and with it several thousand applicants for the sought-after quality seal, the “red dot”.
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Autodesk Chooses SAP

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

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Kray 2.0 released

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.

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37th ANNUAL ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS

37th ANNUAL ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Walt Disney Animation Studios Leads with 17 Nominations for
‘The Princess and The Frog,’ ‘Prep and Landing’
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Sixth Sense Technology

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

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Evolve CG- The Hunter Contest

The Hunter Contest

Last Date: 30th January 2010
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The design of your fluid components

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

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Autodesk University 2009

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

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V-Ray® 1.50 SP4 and V-Ray® RT 1.50 SP1 for Autodesk® 3ds Max® are released

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.

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Lenovo Virtual Showroom

Lenovo Virtual Showroom

Experience truly virtual, 3-D online shopping. It’s easy and fun! Grab a few friends and explore their virtual showroom

 

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Tender 3D is now looking for purchasers and suppliers of 3D modelling and animation services

 Call for Beta Users of 3D Project Tendering Software

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Escape Studios will Make You a Star

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

 
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The 'Render Us Speechless' contest with over $5,000 in prizes

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

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Shaderlight v0.3

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.

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District 9

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.

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Civil 3D 2010 Sneak Peek-The Ribbon

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.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Apply Description Keys

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!

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3D trialled for 'Dam Busters'
Wellington film director Peter Jackson is shooting experimental three-dimensional aerial footage in New Zealand 
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New Autodesk Content Search Beta

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.

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AutoCAD 3D Conceptual Design 112

AutoCAD 3D Conceptual Design 

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Terminator producers file for Chap 11 despite revenues of $300 million.

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

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