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The Adventures of Tintin

DEfault picture 3D-SphereParamount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present a 3D Motion Capture Film "The Adventures of Tintin" directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot," "Defiance") as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig ("Quantum of Solace," "Defiance") as the nefarious Red Rackham.

 

Source and full article: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/theadventuresoftintin/

Digital Art Masters: Volume 6

Default picture 3D-SphereServer www.3dtotal.com released a new Volume of his Digital Art Masters, Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 with 320 pages. With this book you can go into the practice with the world’s best digital artists and go behind they techniques for breathtaking images. 

RenderMan Pro Server 16.0

Default pciture 3d-SpherePixar Animation Studios released his Academy Award®-winning RenderMan Pro Server software version 16.0. According to Pixar, this release should represent some „break-through „in Pixar’s rendering technology offering many of new possibilities, enhancements, and performance gains to speed up your workflow.

3DsMax 2012 Service Pack details

Default picture 3D-SphereAutodesk is planning to release a Service Pack for his new 3DsMax 2012 in the middle of June. The fixes would be mainly focused on Nitrous and Cat, but will fix many other things. „This is one of the largest SPs we've done“. So, all Max users should be happy that soon a lot of fixes will come.

 

Some of the planned fixes:

 

·  3dsmax.mat library missing from installer

·  Bad wording in MassFX Dialog

Autodesk Maya 2012 Hotfix1

Default picture 3D-SphereAutodesk released a Hotfix "1" for Maya 2012. The hotfix brings enhancements to Python scripting with the new Maya Python API 2.0. The new API platform should be better, faster and bring more offers to programmers. The structure of the new Python is similar to the old one, so the shouldn’t be any problem to translate from old Python to the new one.

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