Digital-Tutors released a sneak-peek of a preview of their upcoming new training course called „Introduction to Maya 2012“.  The new training is according to Digital-Tutors pleasantly-detailed and brings to the users of Digital-Tutors 10+ hours of training. Starting with introduction of the new release of Autodesk Maya 2012 and presenting his new features and workflow tips. Once the basics are established, the training speed things up and begin with a modeling section, followed by texturing, rigging, animation, dynamics, and finally, lighting and rendering.

All blender artists have a unique opportunity to do something remarkable. Now you can make splash screen for Blender 2.59. You have to maintain some simple rules like keep the title area free, make your picture fit in the given space below or that you can use your old works. Full list of rules you`ll find in our source. 

A new issue of 3D Artist magazine is out and it should be already being prepared to sale. Andrew Hickinbottom in the first of a two-part tutorial provides a detailed guide to creating the stylised character Belle from concept. You can find here final part of „Create a muscle car“ by Artem Volchik - in it he covers texturing and rendering this flippin’ sweet ride. 

Evermotion released a new volume of their popular model collection called Archmodels. They already hit the number of 100 by this release and to celebrate this anniversary the collection includes 100 models and the special bonus - 3 cover scenes included with all models, materials, lighting and scene setup. The pack includes highly detailed models of autumn and winter trees with all textures, shaders and materials. The collection is download only with a size of 10.94 GB and 125 models.