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Found this rather good tutorial on how to model and render a mobile phone.

http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/SE_T610_1.html

Seems Proton has been busy putting together some entertainment for us

http://www.iamproton.com/images/sq/LW9_Game.html

We’ve made great progress with PSPlant so we’ve decided to show it off at tomorrow’s London Lightwave Usergroup meeting.

Details: Shakespear’s Head near Holburn from 18:00 I believe. Check the Yahoo lwuk group for precise details. See you there!

Stumbled across this link on Gizmodo.com and started day dreaming. What do you get when you take a quad processor machine, each with two cores, with HyperThreading turned on?

Answer: 16 cpu machine! Crazy…

http://gizmodo.com

As if Bryce 5.0 wasn’t enough, now you can download Poser 5.0 for free too! Naturally Lightwave 8.0 won’t be available free next week, but wouldn’t it be nice?!?

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/home.php

A video of it in action can be found here:
http://www.lwita.com/lwers/lcs/videos/DF_Sculpt_Tool.zip

Download the plugin here:
http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?p=147709

Proton takes a closer look at the Connect Tool.

Spinquad forums (plenty of screengrabs)

An email ended up in my inbox advertising the fact that Tequila Scream had been updated to work with Lightwave 9.0. Its $50 for registered users and $190 new. Sounds like a good deal. Here are the features:

Split frame support.
Thumbnail browser.
Mini anim preview.
Pic viewer.
Remote Node Start.
No need to make ScreamerNet shortcuts.
Add several scenes at once.
Warnings:
Warnings set by the user when adding a scene to the render queue.
Warn if no save path.
Warn if render path not found.
Warn if render disk is less than x number of GB.
Warn if camera is not set to the size specified by the user.
Warn if no antialias
Warn if no field rendering
Warn if no object found.
Warn if already rendered frames are found
Move down and up the scenes in the render queue.
If scene 1 is rendering and you move up scene 2, scene 2 will start
rendering!
Reset Scene.
Useful if a scene is already rendered and you want to render it again.
Scene Pause
Pause any scene at any time.
View Scene mode.
Displays useful information like cameras, objects and more.
Look for Missing Frames.
Will check for missing frames and will add them to the render queue if
desired.
Add and kill CPUs at any time.
Pause CPU
Pause all CPUs
You can pause a CPU, then pause all. When the render resumes the CPU
paused will remain paused while the others are rendering.
Assign a scene to a unique CPU.
CPU # 3 is rendering scene 1 while the remaining CPUs are rendering scene
2.
CPU Restart
Crashed CPU.
With the option to add the “crashed” frame to the render queue.
Force CPU.
Plugins button.
View in a window the plugins installed.
2 Log files.
Current session log.
“Yesterday” log.
Email notification.
Send carbon copies and blind carbon copies.
Short emails for beepers and caller phones.
Long emails.
Email complete log when done.
Send emails every 5 minutes up to 3 hours.
Email on starting job.
Email on finished job.
Email on errors
Edit Scenes.
From, To and Step
Render Mode
Ray trace effects.
Output files.
Output filename format.
Camera width, height and pixel aspect.
Antialiasing.
Motion blur.
Particle blur.
Field rendering.
Counters and timers.
Total, rendered and to go frames.
Rendering time per frame.
Rendering time per scene.
And more.
Add your company logo to the interface.
Works with mapped drives and UNC names.

http://www.digitaltoons.tv/shop/

Just noticed DAZ are giving Bryce 5.0 away for free… get it whilst you can.

http://www.daz3d.com/program/bryce/bryce5free.php?&trid=919467712