At Comic Con, a star-studded panel announced a new video game from the minds of Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Ken Rolston (Elder Scrolls IV), and R.A. Salvatore (Best-selling author) called “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning”.
“Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,” developed by Maryland-based Big Huge Games, is a new single-player action-RPG sprung from the minds of three of today’s greatest creative visionaries: New York Times best-selling fantasy author R. A. Salvatore, renowned artist and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Ken Rolston, lead designer of the critically acclaimed RPG “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.” “Reckoning” promises to redefine the action-RPG genre with a brutal, fluid combat experience, immersive open-world exploration, a vast narrative and rich character development.
The trailer for the game, called “Well of Souls”, features the work of Zoic studios as you see the hero locked in mortal combat against an army of skeleton warriors. See it at the link below.
Alibre has just announced that the new version of Alibre Design Expert and Profession 3D CAD software, priced under $500, will include the Luxion KeyShot 2 photorealistic lighting and rendering technology.
“KeyShot 2 is the next generation of photorealistic real-time rendering,” said Max Freeman, VP of Marketing, Alibre Inc. “Alibre Design and KeyShot 2 is the complete end-to-end solution for our customers, combining extreme ease-of-use, a high level of capabilities, and native BIP export.”
The result is a fast real-time lighting and rendering solution to rival most of their competition, at a great price-point. Available now, full details after the break.
That’s right folks, AutoDesk’s 3ds Max was unleashed upon the world as 3d Studio DOS a whopping 20 years ago today, bringing affordable 3D modeling, rendering, and animation to PC’s worldwide.
The software has since been used to help create Oscar-winning movies, record-setting video games and Emmy-winning television content. Notable entertainment projects include movies “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “The Hurt Locker”; video games “The Sims” “World of Warcraft” and “Halo”; and television content from the Dancing Baby featured on “Ally McBeal” to Oceanic flight 815′s crash onto the island in “Lost” and the Emmy award-winning opening sequences of Super Bowls XXXIII and XXXVI.
To celebrate, a portion of the Area has an interactive timeline of the product, sample work, and more. Also, show up to the Autodesk booth next week at SIGGRAPH wearing any piece of 3dsMax Memorabilia from past events (hat, tshirt, pin, etc) and get a free 20th Anniversary T-Shirt!
If you’re an AutoCAD user building models of homes and bridges, but find yourself frequently disappointed at the low-quality renderings that come from AutoCAD, perhaps you should check out Project Neon. With Project Neon, you simply upload your AutoCAD File and click a few buttons, then let the power of the cloud create beautiful high-resolution renderings.
Autodesk Project Neon leverages the computing power of the cloud to remotely produce photorealistic images of your 3D AutoCAD models.
You can render all of your model views simultaneously. Simply upload the model and select your render settings. After you hit “Start Rendering” you can get back to work. We’ll notify you by email when the job is done. Then you can visit your online Render Gallery to view and download your final images.
The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center has released its latest visualization of wind over the Northern Hemisphere during the months of May, June, and July of 1988.
Retrospective-analyses (or reanalyses) have been a critical tool in studying weather and climate variability for the last 15 years. Reanalyses blend the continuity and breadth of output data of a numerical model with the constraint of vast quantities of observational data. The result is a long-term continuous data record. The Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications was developed to support NASA’s Earth science objectives, by applying the state-of-the-art GMAO data assimilation system that includes many modern observing systems (such as EOS) in a climate framework.
This visualization shows the combined U and V components of wind at three different pressure levels: 850 mb, 500 mb, and 300 mb. The pressure coordinate is greatly exaggerated.
credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Millions of dead fish washed ashore at Jones Park in Gulfport, MS. Was this large fish kill the result of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster? As tempting as it might be to blame BP for this, it was more likely related to oxygen depletion in the water. NASA has posted an image showing areas around the world where these aquatic dead zones are located.
The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can’t survive—have grown explosively in the past half-century. Red circles on this map show the location and size of many of our planet’s dead zones. Black dots show where dead zones have been observed, but their size is unknown.
Social Media, Social Media, Social Media. Looks like that’s all people are talking – or, at least, making infographics about. First, Mashable‘s breakdown of Facebook and its 500 million users. Then, the current state of YouTube, brought by Flowtown, and, finally, BBC took a look at the ups and downs of several social networks. From Bundle comes a recent report about the Top-Spending American cities for travel, cable and entertainment, and this week’s last pick is Mint‘s piece with some curious facts about Men at Work.
At Comic Con, a star-studded panel announced a new video game from the minds of Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Ken Rolston (Elder Scrolls IV), and R.A. Salvatore (Best-selling author) called “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning”.
Alibre has just announced that the new version of Alibre Design Expert and Profession 3D CAD software, priced under $500, will include the Luxion KeyShot 2 photorealistic lighting and rendering technology.
That’s right folks, AutoDesk’s 3ds Max was unleashed upon the world as 3d Studio DOS a whopping 20 years ago today, bringing affordable 3D modeling, rendering, and animation to PC’s worldwide.
If you’re an AutoCAD user building models of homes and bridges, but find yourself frequently disappointed at the low-quality renderings that come from AutoCAD, perhaps you should check out Project Neon. With Project Neon, you simply upload your AutoCAD File and click a few buttons, then let the power of the cloud create beautiful high-resolution renderings.
Social Media, Social Media, Social Media. Looks like that’s all people are talking – or, at least, making infographics about. First, 
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