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21Jul2010
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Topher
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Featured Posts, News
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Advanced Mesh Painting With UDK from 3DMotive.com NOW AVAILABLE!

In this video we'll take an advanced look at UDK's mesh painting features (often called vertex painting). We'll go in depth with instructor, Ryan James Smith on how to create several advanced blending materials such as snow icing over stones, puddles that react to light...

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19Jul2010
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Topher
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Events
DMALA Meeting July 20th 2010 Thumbnail

DMALA Meeting July 20th 2010

If you aren't doing anything on Tuesday, July 20th, around 7:00pm, hit up the Barnsdall Gallery Theater in Hollywood for the latest meeting for DMALA. Make sure that you bring your demo reel because Ko Maruyama will be looking for some really good ones to be showing at SIGGRAPH.

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01Jul2010
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Topher
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Updates
FXPHD New Term Announced Today! Thumbnail

FXPHD New Term Announced Today!

If you are one of the thousands of students over at FXPHD.com you are happy to know that they just announced their new term complete with a ton of new classes! New courses include: AE Project -The Open Pt 2, C4D and Design III, Tools of the DOP, DSLR Cinematography: Nature, Intermediate Lustre, Nuke Stereoscopic Master Class, Intermediate Premiere Pro CS5, Real Flow 5 Project Workshop, Red Giant for FCP, Intermediate Smoke/Flame III, and A Comprehensive Guide to Vue. (More details and links after the jump)

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21Jun2010
New CGtuts+ Post! The CGtuts+ E3 Games Roundup! Thumbnail

New CGtuts+ Post! The CGtuts+ E3 Games Roundup!

Last week... ALL WEEK was the Electronic Entertainment Expo... which mean games, Games, and MORE GAMES. A lot of the CG Community enjoys a good game here and there, so I figured I would link you all up to where you can find info on all the hottest games getting released are.

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14Jun2010
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Topher
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Events, Freebies, Updates
E3 Coverage on G4TV.com! Thumbnail

E3 Coverage on G4TV.com!

My absolute favorite network on the airwaves right now is G4 and they have over 25 hours of LIVE coverage coming from the E3 Entertainment Expo this year covering all the new developments in the gaming industry! If you watch Attack of the Show or XPlay on G4 this is probably no new news to you... but for those of you that don't watch... you need to follow them this week! (info an links after the jump)

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14Jun2010
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Topher
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Updates
Up To 50% Off of Cinema 4D Bundles for Australian, Dutch, and Belgian Readers! Thumbnail

Up To 50% Off of Cinema 4D Bundles for Australian, Dutch, and Belgian Readers!

So I caught wind of this from John Dickinson's site, Motionworks.com.au, and apparently there is a sale (links after the jump) where you can get up to 50% off of a variety of bundles of Cinema 4D.

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19May2010
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Topher
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Roundups
Newly Released: Next Limit RealFlow 5 Thumbnail

Newly Released: Next Limit RealFlow 5

Yes! Yesterday Next Limit Technologies released their newest version of RealFlow, RealFlow 5, but for right now, it is just available to existing customers as a free update, and in the coming weeks it will be available to new customers as well. (more after the jump)

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06May2010
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Topher
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Roundups
New Sony EX3 3D Camcorder! Thumbnail

New Sony EX3 3D Camcorder!

If you have seen the Panasonic 3D camera that got debuted at CES... well... this is the competitor to that... even if it is still just a prototype. Taking the EX3 Model, sticking a twice the amount of guts in it, and recording a 4:2:0 signal, and getting 4:4:4 out of the dual HD-SDI, this is definately going to rack up in competition to the Panasonic. (Link to Engadget article after the jump)

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02Apr2010
New AEtuts+ Post! 61 Mesmerizing VFX Breakdowns! Thumbnail

New AEtuts+ Post! 61 Mesmerizing VFX Breakdowns!

I know much all of you like to have that inspiration when you wake up in the morning along with your coffee so I put together a list of 61 of the sickest VFX Breakdowns and Behind the Scenes Features I could find!

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03Mar2010
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Topher
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Inspiration
Hotness on Vimeo! ~ “And Then There Was Salsa” Thumbnail

Hotness on Vimeo! ~ “And Then There Was Salsa”

So when I first saw this link... I clicked through to Vimeo, and saw it was that Tostito's Salsa commercial that I had seen on TV before... I didn't think it was any big deal, so I just kind of closed out the tab. Well, the next 5 or 6 tweets were "OMG HOLY COW ROFLCOPPTER!!!!!" pointing to this link, so I thought, ehh what the hell lets watch it. And then Awesomeness ensued. (more after the jump)

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