SIGGRAPH2009 is expanding into several new areas this year including Audio, Realtime rendering, and Gaming. Ronen Barzel sits down to tell us what we can expect.
Behind Collider’s Liquid Chocolate Commercial
Collider talks about the process behind the liquid chocolate effects of their work for Nestle, done with RealFlow, Maya, and Shake.
A map showing the density of four-year universities and colleges by U.S. state with Fall 2007 acceptance rates and 2008-09 tuition and fees.
Frantic Films VFX Battles John Woo’s ‘Red Cliff’
Frantic Films used an interesting particle system design to create the massive naval fleet of 2500 boats for John Woo’s Red Cliff movie.
Paste Magazine looks at some of the shorts Pixar created in the decade prior to their smash hit Toy Story.
New information coming from Google indicates that they’ve begun to focus heavily on integrating Native Client support into Chromium, using it as the deployment method for O3D Support.
Win $500 for drawing on your iPhone
A $500 cash prize is yours for using a Pogo Stylus to draw the most impressive picture on your iPhone, no fingers need apply!
The Autodesk Assistance Program offers free training resources and software to all, hoping to get recently unemployed graphics artists and modelers back into the industry.
A new project available on Google Code uses NVidia’s CUDA SDK to simulate electromagnetic effects and then render them via OpenGL.
Lawrence Witmer at Ohio University specializes in the 3D visualization of dinosaur and modern mammalian skulls to understand the “functional morphology of the heads of vertebrates”.
A new version of MachStudio pro integrates with Autodesk’s 3Ds Max and Maya, and adds 107 new material presets.
RED Camera and Flash create for MTV and A&E
Loyalkaspar and LORI PATE+ coupled video from a RED camera with animations done in Flash to create the opening for A&E’s “Tattoo Highway” show.