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Are You a 3D Star? Time to Showcase Your Talent

Think you’ve got the chops to be a 3D Star? Do you have the skills, and the guts, to be one of Autodesk’s biggest names in 2010? Here’s your chance, and you’ll get a chance at a nice ATI Firepro for your trouble.

If you’re a designer, recent graduate, student or talented young gun, now is your chance to shine and bring your work to a wider audience, including experts at Autodesk. As part of our new competition, we’ll be supporting some of the best talent in UK design visualization, with the winner receiving a high-end graphics card worth over £1,000 from our friends at ATI.

via Are You a 3D Star? Time to Showcase Your Talent | 3D Visualization with Autodesk Showcase.

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The Ant Farm shows off their stereo 3D moves for Step Up 3D

1:09 pm Randall Hand

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The new “Step Up 3D” movie takes the popular “dance off” movie genre and pushes it into the now-popular third dimension in theaters, and showcases some of the great work of The Ant Farm. They’ve been pretty busy with Legend of the Guardians, Piranha 3D, and Shrek4, and now they can add this to their reel.

The team was challenged with the task of combining live action, 3D footage with stereoscopic 3D effects. The result is an eye popping, seamless mash-up of high energy dance moves and fluidly integrated motion graphics.

If you’ve got some anaglyph glasses, head on over here and check out some samples. If you don’t, head on over to the VizWorld Store’s “Graphics Hardware” department and pick some up.

via The Ant Farm shows off their stereo 3D moves for Step Up 3D | Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects.

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VRay RT for Maya in Public Beta

10:06 am Randall Hand

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If you’re a fan of VRay in Maya already, then you’re in luck as the Chaos Group has just announced that all VRay for Maya users are eligible for the VRay RT Beta program.

In order to obtain access everyone who would like to participate in the V-Ray RT BETA Program should be a current V-Ray for Autodesk Maya user registered at the Chaos Group website. If you would like to participate in the beta program your log in information will be used as an application to the Beta program and you will be able to immediately download and install V-Ray RT for Maya.

Just drool over the possibility of interactive real-time photorealistic rendering, while you model!

via Chaos Group / Chaos Software official website – home – V-Ray® – award winning, production-ready 3D rendering solutions.

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Understanding Shakespeare

10:03 am Randall Hand

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You may not put Shakespeare and Data Visualization in the same sentence very often, but that might change thanks to the work of Stephan Thiel, who analyzed the work with a variety of visualization techniques. Shown above is one where the yellow column corresponds to the main character (Hamlet in this case), with each act is broken down top to bottom.

The goal of this approach was to provide an overview of the entire play by showing its text through a collection of the most frequently used words for each character. A scene is represented by a block of text and scaled relatively according to its number of words. Characters are ordered by appearance from left to right throughout the play. The major character’s speeches are highlighted to illustrate their amounts of spoken words as compared to the rest of the play.

via Understanding Shakespeare / Approaches. via FlowingData

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 23/08/2010

7:00 am Tiago Veloso

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We start this week with a selection of very recent designs about Health. And nothing is more disturbing than the terrible consequences for public health coming from disasters such as the floods in Pakistan. Cyberdera brings a visual update to this tragedy. From Term Life Insurance comes an informational piece entitled “10 Things Your Doctor May Not Tell You”, and from Medical Assistant Schools a couple of other interesting designs: the state of Mental Illness in America, and some facts about Blood. To close this subject, GOOD‘s deep look at what’s in a standard School Lunch?