Digital-Tutors presents a preview of their new april`stutorial in 3ds Max which is focused on Creating females. Throughout the tutorial members will learn essential tools and techniques needed to create a stylized female. It is full of tips for creating exaggerated proportions and features. Stylized characters as a whole can have their own sets of challenges but in this tutorial you’ll learn the essential techniques on how to overcome these types of challenges. This upcoming tutorial includes over eight hours of training. 

When creating a model of a human character you have to know how you are going to produce accurate anatomy. As humans we spend a lot of time looking at people and for this reason we are all very talented at spotting mistakes, or anatomy that doesn’t quite look right. A good model can easily be spoiled by an incorrectly modeled feature, such as a hand, or an ear. In this eBook we will be shown how to model some of the tricky features that regularly cause artists problems, and hopefully awkward looking anatomy will be a thing of the past.

CODE:FREE is an open source and free software art magazine. On 73 pages you can find 52 artworks 1 painting-tutorial and 1 software review of the cool online-painting tool Harmony. Magazine is focused on open source softwares. This time we can find artwoks made by using Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, LibreOffice, Scribus, Alchemy, Mypaint and Blender. Whole contain is divided in following section to better comperating the artworks. There are vectorworks, paintings, Photoediting,  3D creation. 

Golaem announces Golaem Crowd 1.4, the latest update to its crowd simulation software for Autodesk Maya. Creating visually compelling and believable crowds for movies, where budgets are shrinking and timescales are getting shorter, can be a challenge. It is not only important to represent the crowd behavior as a whole, but the appearance and motions of each individual must be believable. Golaem Crowd 1.4 now includes support for Mental Ray procedural rendering, geometry instancing, as well many others improvements. Geometry instancing brings the ability to declare characters as geometry instances in order to allow rendering thousands of entities with amazing performances.