Posts by 3D Tutorials

Lost and Found: The 3D robot rendering that my memory did not get right

The long lost robot is here A long time ago, I wrote: Does anybody remember a Lightwave page with a faked radiosity render of an awesome Grendizer robot? It was somehow connected to a rendering hack. If you know about it, please send me the link! Well, today I found it. Only, it wasnt’ a Grendizer, it was a Wanzer. That’s why no one told me about it, I guess. Anyway today I found the...

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Jvc GS TD-1 Review – How good is this 3D camcorder?

Just got my shiny new GS TD1 and will post a review as soon as possible. Heck, the battery has to be charged! First impression: it’s not as small as it looked like in the videos, and the auto stereoscopic display works well. Not exceptional, but good...

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Modo 501 SP1 – No more broken tooltips on OSX 64bit!

Well, this service pack does a lot more but the tooltip thing was really annoying in 501. I’m glad it has been fixed quickly, as I find 501 a pleasure to work with. Now all I have to do is to convince someone to buy me a 12 core Mac Pro....

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Dare to Share Project Messiah – Pro 3D for $10? You betcha!

Okay, so here’s the deal: Project Messiah is pro grade 3D software. I own it -version 3- and used to use it along with Lightwave. Nice, cool, fast, character animation tool. I probably am not the only one that thinks a match made in heaven would have been Modo+Project Messiah+Lightwave 9.6. Could have been some sort of a 3D terminator, unleashed over a starving 3D market. And I still...

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Maya 2012 – Will Autodesk release it despite the bad omen?

I know, I know. I shouldn’t blog when I’m drunk and for sure many other will have blogged about this. But it struck me as a (digital) lightning bolt: what will Autodesk do with its naming convention when the whole world is waiting, well, for an end? Will it go ahead an release Autodesk’s Maya 2012 despite the bad omen relating to the world’s end? Will it skip an year, just...

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