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MSI has announced a pair of new video cards, the N260GTC Lightning and the N260GTX Lightning Black Edition. The two card are identical, except that the Black Edition comes with a special panel called the “Air Force” Panel.
The Air Force Panel is used to overclock the card by simply touchign the sensors on the front of the panel. MSI claims the components are top quality with solid caps and the world’s first 10 phase PWM for performance and stability. 8 phases are used for the GPU, with two phases for the 1792MB GDDR3 memory running at 2100MHz. The cards are also equipped with V-Check points for measuring voltage during overclocking, and a twin-fan setup called the Twin Frozr.
MSI Unveils Military Grade Graphics Cards.
Hardware msi, nvidia
A new animated short from Zoic and Consol show oil derricks as a dying dinosour as we finally conquer Oil dependence. It’s a commercial intended to advertise Consol Energy’s alternatives to oil, such as coal and natural gas. The spot was created with some interesting motion capture work and CG graphics. See the full press release after the break. Read more…
Graphics commercial, zoic
Pixologic has just announced the release of ZBrush4. It’s currently scheduled for release in August, and will be freely available for any registered user of Zbrush.
ZBrushCentral – *** Announcing ZBrush 4 ***.
Graphics pixologic, zbrush
N-Sided has announced a new version of their 3d Character modeling and rendering package, with new features to improve performance and improve interoperability with 2D Graphics programs.
New features include:
- New catalogs system
- Higher performance
- AutoMapping and On-Model UV Twicking
- Direct bridge to 2D programs (including Photoshop)
- QUIDAM Prime including licensing rights for applications and games
via N-Sided Annonces.
Graphics quidam
Panasonic is jumping on the 3D Bandwagon with a new dual-lens HD Camcorder than can record 3D HD video.
No word on pricing or availability, but the press release is very heavy on “concept”. Again, announced at NAB. Full press release after the break.
Read more…
Hardware 3d, camera, nab, panasonic
The folks that brought you Slumdog Millionaire have released the world’s first integrated 3D cinema camera and stereo visualization system at NAB. The SI-3D shoots uncompressed raw imagery from two synchronized cameras, and encodes it directly onto a single quicktime file with convergence metadata.
The SI-3D system uses two remote SI-2K Mini cameras with an P+S interchange lens mount connected to a single processing system via gigabit Ethernet where they are synchronized and controlled through the familiar SiliconDVR touchscreen interface. On-set, each camera can be viewed individually or in stereo mixed modes using modern 3D LCD and DLP displays.
One common problem with most stereo camera systems is that each camera must be focuses, calibrated, and white-balanced individually. In this system, the data is streamed to a common drive without any processing, and they’ve provided tools that allow you to calibrate and modify the imagery of both streams simultaneously .
via Silicon Imaging.
Hardware 3d, camera, nab, silicon imaging
Pixar has long claimed that “Monsters, Inc”, from 2001, was the first animation which showed hair and fur realistically. This got Steve van Dulken wondering, and after some research he found some patents from Pixar dating to 2003, such as:
Steve van Dulken’s Patent blog: Pixar’s patents for animating hair and fur.
Graphics, Science fur, hair, patent, pixar
Autodesk’s 3D Studio Max is one of the premiere tools used in the animation and gaming industry for modeling and rendering, but it can be a bit daunting to get a grip on when you first start. InstantShift.com has come to your rescue, rounding up 115 of the best 3DS max tutorials on the net into one place.
115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials | Tutorials | instantShift.
Graphics 3dsmax, autodesk, tutorial
Rod Seffen has a tutorial on CGArena showing head sculpting techniques in Autodesk’s Mudbox2009.
Video Tutorial: Head Sculpting Techniques.
Graphics mudbox, tutorial
A press release from Autodesk announces some features we can see in the new Smoke 2010, Flint 2010, and Luster2009.
They’ve added several new features, see the full list after the break.
Read more…
Graphics autodesk, nab
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