Last night decided who was successful in competition for Academy Award. In category Best Visual Effects were nominated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Real Steel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Hugo and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Everyone has a tip such as we in 3d-sphere.com but only right tips were if you supposed as a winner Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Brilliant work by the crew at Pixomondo! Based on the novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," Hugo is the story of an orphan boy who lives at a train station in 1930s Paris and encounters French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès.

With Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 you can discover how the finest 2D and 3D artist created some of the most innovative digital art in the world. More than a gallery book, Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 takes readers behind the scenes with breakdowns of the techniques and tricks the artists employed to create their stunning imagery. Inspirational and instructive, this is more than just a gallery or coffee table book; this is a timeless resource for any digital artist. 3DTotal is giving away a sample chapter of four pages from the book and you can download it, for FREE! 

Digital-Tutors present a new tutorial with over seven hours of 3ds Max training content. In the upcoming Polygon and Sub-D Modeling Workflows in 3ds Max 2012 Tutorial, everyone can learn how to build upon 3ds Max’s modeling tools and learn how to apply them to a high-poly modeling workflow. You can also learn to create a base mesh for our geometry, use NURMS to smooth out your result and then jump right into creating the details we want in a high-poly version model. Viewers will also discover how polygonal modeling can be extremely helpful in producing the exact detail and topology we need for any modeling project you work on. 

Basefount Technology has released an update for Miarmy, its crowd-simulation system for Maya. This version provides some new features and also changes many parts of system infrastructure.  Miarmy 1.2 integrates Nvidia’s PhysX 3.1 engine, effectively removing the upper limit on the number of actors or physics objects that can be included in a scene. With Mesh Drive Techniques, the character can be interactive display, enable blendshape and render them by arbitrary renderer directly in Maya. Miarmy 1.2 also contains Improved 3Delight Render Plugin and Agent Cache which allows you to create once cache file for all the agents, the cached scene will become real-time including there have clothes. Miarmy Pro 1.2 is available for Maya 2011 and above.