CGSociety has published the public-voted top 20 CG happenings of 2008. Everything that is worth others attention had a chance to appear onto the list but there is not many events that made it.
"The best visual effects scenes are not always found in the best movies. Sometimes, they're in the very worst." - that's true, nowadays more often movies are concentrated on special effects rather than on scenarios and we can find more and more of them that shouldn't never be released...
An artistic challenge to explore gears, springs, brass and steam set around some of the world's best known stories. The largest CGChallenge ever, with over USD220,000 in prizes!
With the coming WALL-E DVD/Blu-ray you'll get some exclusive bonus materials. Some of them are already available on the Internet, but those are only a short previews. For full version you have to wait until the 18th, November.
There is plenty of fire effects, flame, infernos works around. This roundup contains some of them which should be inspiring and should give you some unique ideas. Tutorials and plugins will show you how to create some very realistic fire which look almost like real word fire. Those effects are being used in many cases especially as for special effects for movies or games or just for simple renders.
In this short article I will try to explain you how to work more effectively and comfortably by using some 3ds shortcuts. I will also list out some of the most common shortcuts which you will probably want to use very often.
