A new LuxRender competition started. The goal of this competition is very simple; you have to show the capabilities of LuxRender to the community of LuxRender artists. The for this completion is Poetry in "Motion". The competition started two days ago and will be „open“ until August 26th 2011 23:59:59 UTC, after which voting will follow. There is one required element in this completion. You must use Motion blur in some way in your scene. Any entries in this completion without this element will be disqualified.

Smooth Edges is a script for Autodesk 3DsMax 9-2012 developed by Marius Silaghi. The script gives you by poly modeling the freedom and control about your model like your vertex mesh would be a bezier shape. With this option you can easily create smooth curves and surfaces, align edges from different meshes to another, speed up your modeling and much more. According to the author the use of „Smooth Edges“ is almost anytime, if you want to model an airplane, tank, model using a blueprint or just model something in your mind you can always use this script to help you to achieve the result which you want.

Eat 3D released a new training tutorial DVD for Cebas thinkingParticles for Autodesk 3DsMax called „Intermediate Concepts“. This is the second part of this training course made by Eat 3D which is specialized and known for their high-quality training materials. The author Hristo Velev covers on this training DVD almost everything which you should know about thinkingParticles; Raycasting, Referencing, Motion Inheritance, Generation, Driving Scene Objects, Shape Collision,

Digital Tutors is recently very busy preparing new training videos all kinds helping people from 3D industry to educate them. One of the new upcoming training is called „Introduction to MoGraph in Cinema 4D“. The training is focused on the powerful feature in Cinema 4D MoGraph where Digital Tutors covers how to utilize cloners and effectors for controlling the behavior of clones and other objects, incorporate dynamics into MoGraph objects and much more.