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Newtek announces the 8.5 version for siggraph 2005 .
hardware opengl shader, part to surfaces, dynamics improvements & some new keyboard shortcuts options.
oh, and it’ll be free.
You can check the news page HERE.

Hot off the press, so hot that according to the date on the worley.com website (7/27/05) we are looking into the future
Quote from Worley.com
SIGGRAPH begins in less than a week. Soon after SIGGRAPH ends, we’ll be releasing a free update to FPrime, version 2! We’ll post more on this site this week about [...]

Just browsing the Apple trailers when I came across the Ice Age 2 teaser. I look forward to this one!
Ice Age 2 teaser

Spotted this on the Newtek bulletin boards. Might be of interest to some budding LW student…
Safe Harbor Computers is looking for one or two nice still images created mainly in LightWave that we can use as “screen shots” on monitors in our print ads. You will not be paid for the use of the images; [...]

From the main website:
“ChanLum is a shader which takes a cheap shot at sub-surface scattering (SSS). It does this not by actually calculating the scattering itself, but by blurring and offsetting the lighting and (self)shadowing the object receives. With proper use, this produces results which look uncannily like the more ‘professional’ sub-surface scattering algorithms.”
Originally [...]

As you may or may not be aware AMD has filed suit against Intel. One of AMD’s claims in the antitrust case is that their compiler creates code that is biased towards Intel processors.
All this got me thinking about how Newtek has made a big thing in the past of using the Intel compiler [...]

first a very usefull link for those out there willing to learn about movie formats : Panavision site .
for zbrush2 users , david ikeda wrote a great material baker
David IKEDA site
(Material Baker is a ZScript to bake in material shading and textures into a new texture). thanks david!
In the same [...]

Photos, pictures and news about the attack on London 7th July 2005.