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The Airman is Flying by

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The airman is a book by Eoin Colfer and now is going to be a movie. Disney and ImageMovers have hired a screen writer and a director. It looks like Robert Zemeckis company will be doing the graphics.


The Story is about:


The story centers on Conor, a boy who lives on an island off the coast of Ireland, where his father is the king’s bodyguard. When the king is murdered, Conor is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison where he passes the solitary months designing a flying machine that he will use to save his family.


Source: Variety

20 tip for Faster Photoshop

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: | Posted On at 10:09 AM

I saw this on www.CreativePro.com It is orginally from www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk

I has some very useful tip on how to improve your workflow with photoshop.

click here to see the examples


1. Hold Spacebar to move a selection
2. Display larger font previews
3. Change values with the cursor keys
4. Quickly zoom back to 100%
5. Toggle visibility of multiply layers
6. Hide or show all other layers
7. Load the selection of a layer
8. Quickly toggle between blending modes
9. Toggle palette visibility
10. Fit to full screen
11. Switch to precision cursor mode
12. Increase and decrease brush size
13. Rotate a Photoshop brush
14. Quickly adjust layer opacity
15. Auto select layers or groups
16. Automatically load files into layers
17. Easily create new guides
18. Change layer palette thumbnail sizes
19. Copy multiple layers
20. Move items with super nudge

Greeble Plug in

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On at 9:40 AM


Yesterday I post about a great tutorial on how to create a future city. I looked over it and started to create the city. I only got to the part of using a plug in called Greeble. and that is were i look my attention. It is super plug in that help create all those small building. if you did not use this then this tutorial would take you hours.

I had so much fun playing with this plug in. if you are someone who likes to make cities or something like that then is the plug in for you.

Source: http://max.klanky.com/

Sites worth checking out

Posted by zaxpo | | Posted On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 9:15 AM

I have add a link section to my site. these will be site i really like. So far there is just two. but they are really good

Future City Tutorail

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , , | Posted On at 8:46 AM


I am always looking for a good tutorail. I found this one, called Create an Awesome 3D Future City. I have not tried yet but I plan to in the next week. I does not look hard but long. It use 3ds max and Photoshop.

It is in two parts
Create an Awesome 3D Future City day 1
Create an Awesome 3D Future City day 2

Source: http://forcg.com/

College humor make fun of Pixer intro

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On at 6:00 AM

This just too funny. I sure disney would not be happy.


Ubisoft to release Assassin's Creed on Youtube

Posted by zaxpo | | Posted On Monday, October 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM

Assasisin Creed flim will be release on Oct 27 on youtube.

District 9 Concept art

Posted by zaxpo | | Posted On at 1:01 PM


www.wetanz.com

Aionon Concept Art

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , | Posted On at 12:56 PM




www.aiononline.com

Here is concept are from video game Aionon


Open enrollment for Lightwave 3d v9.61 beta

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , , | Posted On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM

LightWave 3D v9.6.1 Open Beta Launched

From the Website

"Dear LightWavers:NewTek is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Beta for LightWave 3D v9.6.1. This new version of LightWave 3D brings a full 64-bit version of the application to the Mac platform, and a host of stability enhancements to all platforms. All registered LightWave v9 owners are eligible to sign up and participate. "

New Zbrush training Videos

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On at 8:53 AM

With the update of zbrush 3.5 you knew that Pixlogic would release some new training videos(free)

Sketching with ZSpheres Basics, Surface Noise, Sculpting in HD and Planar, Trim Brushes.

you can find them at Zclassroom

The Gnomon Workshop has a subscription plan

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On at 8:31 AM


Most of you guy that have been doing the 3d graphics will come across DVDs training videos. The Gnomon workshop was one of the pioneer of this type of training now they are taking to another level. They are offering a subscription plan. There is three types of plans


Plan 1 All Tutorials for $499.00 per year
Plan 2 Visual Effects and Game 299.00 per year

Plan 3 Design and Traditional 299.00 per year


I have tried some of the Gnomon tutorials and have found them very good


CryENGINE 3 have been announces

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM


New all-in-one game development solution for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, MMO, DX9/ DX10 and Next-Gen-Ready to be premiered at GDC 2009


Pixar Toy's Story 3 trailer

Posted by zaxpo | Labels: , , | Posted On at 1:22 PM



the orginal 3d toys are back.