Archive for the 'Computer Graphics' Category

Recipe for a cheap 3D rendering work horse (Intel)

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Tom’s Hardware has reviewed the Intel Pentium D 805 processor and overclocked it to 4Ghz+. The result? A machine that can rival the most expensive CPUs available. Better yet its a dual core processor which means you get two processors in one :).
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk
If you are interested in purchasing one, I can thoroughly recommend overclockers.co.uk if [...]

Cool special effects techniques

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Slightly off-topic, but interesting to any graphic artist. Digital Air show off some very interesting camera techniques with videos to show the final result.
http://www.digitalair.com

Disney in talks to buy Pixar

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Who would have thought it!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060119-6012.html

A 3D artist’s Christmas list

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

What every 3D artist should have on his/her’s Christmas list this year - Top 5

The Supamonks

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Wow, what a crazy short. Check it out here http://supamonks.free.fr/. Trust me you won’t regret it

3D/Animation/Computer Graphics Podcasts

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

3D/Animation/Computer Graphics Podcasts

HDR overview - from a games point of view

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Stumbled across this nice, but simple HDR overview with a focus on its use in games such as Half-Life 2.
http://www.cooltechzone.com/
Nice to think Lightwave was one of the first 3d applications to support HDR images

Terragen 2 artwork

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

First off, a quick apology from Ben and Ben (Haines & Chape). I was on holiday and hoping Ben C would pick up the Lightwave 8.5 news as and when it became available. Unfortunately Ben managed to break his foot whilst playing basketball (no french jokes please!).
The result being that neither of us [...]

Do you have $182 Million in cash? To buy Alias of course!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

major acquisition in the 3d world.

Free DAZ|Studio 1.0 download (as in beer)!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Spotted this earlier today on slashdot.org (of all sites!). DAZ have a completely free product called Studio out for everyone to download. Check it out here.