As announced previously, here is the Zinio giveaway of 9 subscriptions to the magazine you choose from their catalog!
Zinio is the place to go if you want to get a subscription to the magazines that you love. Your virtual kiosk, where you can find most of the publications that widely known in all countries, and get them directly in your email each month, ready to be downloaded to be read in your computer or mobile reader.
It has magazines available in English as well as in Spanish. Zinio has all the most popular magazines available to you, on many topics, that go from cars, photography, or technology to any other that you usually find in a press shop.
By purchasing magazines in electronic format, you help the environment. This is the mision of
Zinio, to provide a more ecological vision of publication.
How many times you got a magazine that ends in the recycle bin because you lack the space for storing them all? And how bad is printing all that paper that not always end being recycled?
But if you get them in electronic formats, you can store thousands of your favorite magazines in a hard drive or disc, and there is no need to renunce to any of them no matter how old they are, because they take no space. In addition, you save lots of contamination and preserve the forests, by encouraging to not publish in paper. This way you put your two cents in the conservation of nature, through Zinio.
So don't hesitate and spend some time at Zinio, you'll find most of your favorite mags, and will feel better because you are doing something important and at the same time, you'll keep yourself informed of the topics you love.
Now, if you want to get a free subscription to the magazine you choose, here is the giveaway, and what you have to do:
- To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment in this blog post and put your Facebook account name there, so I can locate you.
- Later, you will need to provide your full name and surname, and email, so I can pass them to the agent on Zinio and they can give you the access to the subscription that you won.
- The first 9 people who comment will get the 9 subscriptions! Hurry!
So put your comment below and be sure to post your Facebook name or link, and get the prize!
This review is sponsored. The author was compensated for doing this review.
Zinio Giveaway: Want a free subscription? Grab it!
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Zinio 2x1 And Magazine Giveaway Coming!
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Zinio, the leader of magazine distribution on the Internet, is holding a 2 years for the price of 1 on selected titles that you can browse here at this link:
http://www.zinio-deals.com/february13/2for1/zion/
Hurry now and get it before this Monday 4th, and get this fantastic opportunity! The time is now if you were thinking in getting your favorite mag directly at your computer! Now get 2 for 1…
Zinio distributes thousands of top magazines from around the world and you can browse and purchase subscriptions or single issues instantly from your computer or mobile device to read wherever and whenever you like.
You can even have a look inside many magazines to get a first view of their pages, just like you would do at your magazine shop locally.
AND THERE IS A GIAWAY COMING IN OUR BLOG HIPERIA3D NEWS
I’ll be holding a giveaway sponsored by Zinio, in which the winner will be able to choose from ANY of the thousands of titles Zinnio offers.
For example: PC MAGAZINE, POPULAR SCIENCE, MACLife, ImagineFX, and many computer and photography magazines, and of course many other topics!
So stay tuned in the upcoming days to know more about Zinio and enter the giveaway that will be run soon.
There will be 9 magazine subscriptions in the giveaway and the winners will choose the mag they like!
I myself receive a subscription because of doing this review and holding the giveaway, and I will be sure to get the others to reach the 9 lucky winners.
More details soon!
Contest: Create A Monster For Rift
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The game RIFT in collaboration with DeviantArt announces a contest to design a super-monster enemy for their game using any technique including 3D modeling. You can win an Intuos4 tablet and other fantastic prizes.
You have until June 19th, 2011.
See the rules and details here:
http://fav.me/n151243
Ponoko Launches Personal Factory 4 For 3D Printing Contest
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Ponoko has launched Personal Factory 4, a new way to buy, sell, and make custom goods. With this new system they have partnered with CloudFab, to get a wide range of materials in which print your models and designs.
The new 3D printing materials are durable plastic, superfine plastic, rainbow ceramic, stainss steel and gold plate.
In addition, Google and Ponoko host a contest to show how to use Google Sketchup for Ponoko 3D printing. Read it here at Sketchup Blog:
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-ponoko-3d-printing-challenge.html
The prizes for first place alone are worth $1500.
Personal Factory 4 is the world's only system offering instant online pricing to make your projects using a combination of 2D and 3D digital making technologies and open-source electronics hardware. With no setup fees and no minimum order sizes, you can now make custom electronic gadgets, homeware, fashion and furniture in the comfort of your home - and sell them to the world.
In an exclusive agreement, Ponoko adds the CloudFab network of 3D printers to its global network of laser cutters.
Ponoko's Personal Factory 4 also offers new starter kits for 3D printing from Alibre, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender (freeware), Google SketchUp (freeware) and SolidWorks. Other CAD software can also be used to get instant online pricing for STL, DAE and VRML 97 design files. Personal Factory 4 is another evolution in Ponoko's vision of a digital factory in every home, business and school, powered by its personal making system.
Ponoko's personal making system is available as an online subscription: Free or Prime. A Prime account is $39 per month and includes lower pricing, faster delivery and a design quality check before you commit to your custom order. Importantly, there are no setup fees or minimum order sizes for anyone to make things, so there is no entry barrier.
All Personal Factory 4 features are available now from Ponoko's U.S. hub, and will be rolled out to their worldwide digital factory network during 2011.
3Dconnexion's Contest: Win A SpaceNavigator and NVIDIA Quadro
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This Promotion is open to people 18 years of age and are legal residents residing in the United States and countries of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Canada.
To enter the Promotion, visit the Promotion website at www.3dconnexion.com/challenge and follow the instructions to complete the submission process. As part of the submission process, each entrant must download any of the available 3D models and the "challenge" will be to place the 3D models in an interesting, creative and original 3D environment using any 3D design software and upload as directed. Entrants may submit as multiple entries during the Promotion Period, however, only the last submission of your entry within a given month will be judged for that month. Each entrant is also required to "like" 3Dconnexion on Facebook www.facebook.com/3dconnexion
The entry period for this Promotion is until December 31, 2010. Each month of the Promotion Period, a panel of experts will review eligible entries received during that month and announce Monthly Winners. Timeline for the following activities will take place on or around these dates:
* October 1 - December 31, 2010: Entries accepted
* November 5, 2010: October Monthly Winners announced
* December 3, 2010: November Monthly Winners announced
* January 7, 2011: December Monthly Winners announced
* January 7, 2011: Finalists announced
* January 14, 2011: Grand Prize Winner announced
1st Place monthly: 3Dconnexion SpaceExplorer ($299) and PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 ($499)
2nd Place monthly: 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator ($99)
Grand Prize 1st Place: Apple 27" LED Cinema Display
All applications submitted become the property of 3Dconnexion.
Download the 3D models here:
http://www.3dconnexion.com/challenge
Read more guidelines and official rules here:
Get Your SL Screenshots In The iPad
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Koinup is searching for your best wallpapers depicting Second Life's cityscapes and urban environments to be included in the application for the iPhone and iPad, Metaverse Wallpapers.
Metaverse Wallpapers will feature the most incredible Second Life images and artworks as downloadable Wallpapers for your iPhone & iPad screens.
So far, Koinup members submitted more than 350 images in the Metaverse Landscapes and Second Life Avatars groups. The goal is to reach at least 500 submissions in the next weeks and bring to the app at least 150 wallpapers.
Join the contest here: http://www.koinup.com/group/second-life-cityscapes/ and maybe soon you can be proud in front of your friends that your entry is live in millions of iPhone and iPad devices
Machinima Expo 2010 Open For Submissions
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Machinima Expo 2010 is now accepting submissions for their competition. The selected 5 machinima films will be screened and honored at the Expo, that will take place in November.
The Grand Prize winner will also get some prize that is still being decided but will be announced soon.
The Machinima Expo welcomes machinima films of any style and has no category / genre restrictions. Films must meet the Vimeo content guidelines in order to be submitted for the Expo. These guidelines are available at:
http://www.vimeo.com/guidelines#uploading_guidelines
Deadline is August 31st, 2010.
Winner And Finalists Of The 1 Minute Machinima Contest
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Loris Rizzo, with his work “Virtual Adam's First and Last Birthday”, has won the 1 Minute Machinima Contest at Koinup.
The author defines this work as “the Meaning of Virtual Life in 60 seconds”, and is about what is real and what is virtual. Loris Rizzo has won one year subscription to Moviestorm Premium Service!!!
Honorable Mentions:
These 2 works did not won the prize but were finalists.“Nowhere to go” by Celestina, who says about it:
“A man is caught in a dark alley and taken to jail... but is he as powerful as he believes...”
And “Bigshot” by AdricAntfarm, tells a fable about the war veterans.
Koinup Launches Contest and New Application For iPhone and iPad. Submit Your Images!
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There is a contest in which you can submit your images, to be considered for inclusion in the application. They need up to 150 Second Life pictures, so chances are high that you may get some included, as long as they are of good quality.
Read more about the contest here: http://www.koinup.com/metaverse-wallpapers/
All the Pics must have the following size: 768x1024 (portrait mode) Remember that by submitting your pictures to the group, you authorize Koinup to include your images in the Metaverse Wallpapers Application.
“1 Minute Machinima Contest” Extended Until June 14
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"The 1 Minute Machinima Contest" has been extended. Now participants have until 14th of June to enter their submissions.
The 1 Minute machinima contest is an initiative powered by Koinup and Moviestorm aimed at promoting the machinima diffusion and culture.
Participants of the contest are asked to submit a video created with the Moviestorm software(less than 1 minute length) on Koinup.
The winner will receive a one year subscription to Moviestorm and will be promoted on both the Moviestorm and Koinup websites. Runners up will also be promoted on both sites.
Read more about the contest
Featured Machinima: “CARbingers of the ECOcalypse”
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This week’s Hiperia3D's Machinima Selections is for lorisrizzo for his wonderfully made machinima “CARbingers of the ECOcalypse”
Poid Mahovlich, creative mixed media artist & pro photographer, and also virtual worlds consultant, has selected the nominees for this week’s feature, suggesting machinima for the excellence badge, based on her deep knowledge of this discipline.
You can visit her machinima collection at YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/PoidMahovlich and her site at http://poidmahovlich.blogspot.com/
This is an ecological satire by Loris Rizzo that will make you think about where are we going to with the exploit of dirty energy sources like petrol.
This machinima has won the excellence badge of Hiperia3D News for Machinima:
If you like it, visit lorisrizzo’s profile or join our group to view more works.
Update For Web3D ART
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Dr. Steve Guynup, Web 3D Consortium's 2010 Art and Design chair, has posted this update to Web3D Art on Renderosity:
We are looking for online virtual art produced by students or recent graduates in the past 3 years. Any genre of online 3D art is acceptable including musical works, galleries, sculptures, works of theory, and interactive installations. Of particular interest are immersive poetic works that highlight the relationship between story and space. Realistic story-based worlds are acceptable, but unconventional spaces driven by unconventional narratives are preferred.
We are hoping to find several promising developers that are willing to share their talents with both veteran and pioneering designers of the web3d community at large.
Submission deadline is July 10. Works will be showcased online and be available to conference attendees in the Web3D Symposium's Art Gallery Space on July 24th & 25th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. SIGGRAPH 2010 runs from July 25th to July 29th.
As you see, the deadline has been extended, so hurry.
Read it here at Renderosity.
Twinity Contest: Build A Masterpiece In 3D
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The contest consists in choosing a famous picture and transform it to a room in Twinity. The prize is being featured and many Globals (no particular quantity has been stablished).
It is not stated but obviously you should choose a picture or painting that is not only famous but classic (paintings from more than 70 years ago) to avoid copyright infringement.
You will also need to be a premium member to be able to own buillding space and upload.
There are 2 webinars for those who want to get started in building in 3D for Twinity, in days 25 and 24. Read more here: http://www.twinity.com/en/events/3427 and here: http://www.twinity.com/en/events/3426
Web3D 2010 ART Will Focus On Virtual Art
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Web3D Consortium this year is having more interest in the artistic side of building 3D worlds, something that many of us have asked many times. This year's conference will showcase works of artistic 3D web building.
The Web3D Consortium is a member-funded industry consortium committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free standards that enable the communication of real-time 3D across applications, networks, and XML web services. The Consortium works closely with the ISO, MPEG and W3C standardization bodies to maximize market opportunities for its membership.
Web3D Consortium is behind 3D web standards like VRML and X3D.
Web3D 2010 also supports a yearly event that uses to work closely with the also famous SIGGRAPH conference. a major event which unites researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, experimenters, artists and content creators in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing and creating new 3D Web and Multimedia technologies such as X3D, VRML, Collada, MPEG family, U3D, Java3D and other technologies.
The Web3D 2010 Conference will present the Web3D ART Exhibition, that is composed of two major events:
Memories of a Distant Future: Web3D Art & Design 1995-2010
This is an exhibition that showcases the works of five designers in the Web3D scene, thinking in 3D worlds as art, in retrospective from 1995 to 2010.
They are: Andy Best, Cristiano Bianchi, John Kilma, Adam Nash, and the team called "fabric | ch" (Christian Babski, Stéphane Carion, Christophe Guignard & Patrick Keller).
Virtual Storied Worlds and Poetic Spaces
This is for now a call for creative student Web3D art. You have until 1st of June to submit yours, so this is the last week, hurry up.
The theme of poetry is required, but open to interpretation.
Students, recent graduates, or those preparing to enter college are encouraged to submit work. (Working professionals and commercial entities are not)
Any interactive 3D technology is acceptable for consideration. Online, web3D works preferred.
General requirements will include the student’s name, school, text of the poem, a url to a videoclip (youtube is acceptable) and a url for the work (online or download).
Further Information and Questions: steve.guynup [at] gmail [dot] com
In the website they say that a submission form will be available soon, but I recommend you to send your info to the email of Steve Guynup because at this date the form is not yeat available, and there's only 1 week left.
See more info and source here:
http://conferences.web3d.org/web3d2010/web3d_art
In further articles I will cover the topic of virtual art more deeply, as it seems it is having a strong re-emergence. Stay tuned.
Twinity Contests: Win Up To 550 Globals
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Twinity is running these contests:
50 Globals for "Avatar of the Day"
If you put time in your avatar's style, why not show off your unique look to the community - and you could become the "Avatar of the Day"!
250 Globals for "Apartment of the Week"
If design is more your thing, then style out your apartment. Join in the "Apartment of the Week" contest and you could win a nice prize of Globals!
250 Globals for "Event of the Week"
Just send post screenshot of your event on our Facebook wall and win 250 Globals if it is chosen as the "Event of the Week"!
3D Printing Contest: Win $100 In 3D Prints
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An opportunity to test your 3D modeling skills, have your object 3D printed in full color by Shapeways and win $100 worth of 3D printing.
The contest ends May 31th, read the rules here: http://www.shapeways.com/contest/student_contest_may2010
And don’t miss the tutorial at http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/446-Full-Color-3D-Print-Student-Contest-Update.html
Developers: Last Days To Send Proposal For SharerX Book
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After the tremendous success of the first seven entries to the ShaderX book series, and the upcoming success of the GPU Pro book (http://gpupro.blogspot.com/), Wolfgang F.Engel is looking for authors for GPU Pro 2.
The upcoming book will cover advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time or any other run-time with any language available. It will include topics on: Geometry Manipulation; Rendering Techniques; Handheld Devices Programming; Effects in Image Space; Shadows; 3D Engine Design; Graphics Related Tools; Environmental Effects and a dedicated section on mathematics used in graphics programming.
Authors can send their proposal before next May 17th, 2010.
You can also download samples and tutorials of some of these books at the page http://tog.acm.org/resources/shaderx/
Koinup And Moviestorm Present "The 1 Minute Machinima Contest"
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Koinup, the virtual world and machinima social network and Moviestorm, the 3D movie making software application, are delighted to announce "The 1 Minute Machinima Contest".
Koinup founder Pierluigi Casolari and Moviestorm founder Matt Kelland launched the competition in order to promote Koinup to Moviestorm's community of amateur movie-makers, and to bring awareness of Moviestorm to Koinup's clientele of machinima
creators and digital artists.
The competition is part of a large partnerhsip between Koinup and Moviestorm, aimed at empower the machinima community scene and leveraging the machinima art creation.
The competition is open to machinimists throughout the world. Create a short video, 1 minute length (or less), on any subject, in any language, and post the results on Koinup! Anything goes - it can be funny, exciting, dramatic, or whatever you like.
The only rule is that you have to create it with Moviestorm. Moviestorm software is free to download for a 30 days trial (Mac or Windows XP/Vista/7), after which a membership is required to use the application.
Both if you're already involved in the Moviestorm community or if you're new to it, you can join the contest and win the competition!
You can add to the pool both new and old videos, what does matter is that the videos must be under 1 minute lenght, they must be impressive, funny, well executed and capture the attention of the audience. Videos must be an original creation, made up by you, by using contents you have the right to publish.
The videos will be judged by a panel of jury made up by Jordi R. Cardona - Hiperia3D News editor -, Matt Kelland - Moviestorm CEO -, and Poid Mahovlich - Koinup blog editor and machinima expert -.
The winner will receive a one year subscription to Moviestorm Premium Service, and will be promoted on both the Moviestorm and Koinup websites. Runners up will also be promoted on both sites.
Submissions start today May 11, and deadline is 1st of June. Winners will be announced on June 7. There will be one absolute winner and some honorary mentions.
Taking part is as simple as this: join Koinup, download Moviestorm at www.moviestorm.net , import your youtube video to Koinup, join the "1 minute machinima contest" and add your videos to the pool..
Visit the contest page and rules at: http://www.koinup.com/group/1-minute-machinima-contest/
About Moviestorm
Moviestorm is the complete 3D movie making software application for all abilities. Whether your movie interest is cartoons, crime, music, horror, video blogs, kids shows, romance, action or anything else, Moviestorm provides the ideal solution. Unlike game-based machinima tools, Moviestorm is designed as a virtual movie studio from the ground up, and there are no issues with copyright. Moviestorm's radical pricing system allows customers to buy it outright or subscribe on a monthly basis for just $7.99 / €6.49 / £4.99. Content packs are also available for rental by the day or the month, which gives film-makers maximum flexibility at minimum cost. This enables Moviestormers to get started quickly and try out all the different packs without a large cash outlay.
About Koinup
Koinup is the leading web 2.0 social media site dedicated to virtual art, machinima and virtual world contentSince launch, Koinup's goal has been the promotion and encouragement of virtual world culture and machinima development, providing users the ability to share any kind of media, aggregate, create groups and discuss in discussion boards. With over 30.000 registered members, Koinup represents one of the most important web portals dedicated to virtual worlds.
Write For A Book About Your App
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Marwan Y. Ansari, experienced software engineer specialized in game development and 3D, will edit a book called "Game Development Tools", that will be published by A.K. Peters next year, 2011.
http://gamedevelopmenttools.com/
You can submit your proposal, that must consist in an article about the tools you are developing or you want to talk about.
It can cover any topic in the game development industry, but main topics suggested are:
· Content Pipeline tools (creation, streamlining, management)
· Graphics/Rendering tools
· Profiling tools
· Collada import/export/inspection
· Sound tools
· In-Game debugging tools
· Memory management & analysis
· Console tools (single and cross platform)
You must submit your articles before June 30th.
Visit their website to get an example of proposal that may serve you as a template.
3D Hobby Magazine Contest
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Emma Alvarez sponsors a contest in 3D Hobby Magazine. You can get one of her products at Renderosity and other prizes like a licensed copy of Curvy 3D.
Curvy 3D is an awesome modeling suite that has powerful features like image-based modeling and sketch-based modeling tools, 3D painting and much more.
The magazine's Premier Issue will be available both in print and downloadable PDF on April 7th.
The contest at 3D Hobby Magazine consists in making the cover for their next issue. The first place prize is a licensed copy of Curvy 3D, and in the list of prizes you can also find Emma Alvarez’s product:
"Return To The Earth", by Emma Alvarez
This illustration was created by Emma Alvarez with the product Photoshop Space Brushes, that you can win in this contest.
Visit the contest's info and rules here: http://www.3dhobbymag.com/contests
The deadline for entries is April, 25th. You may use any 3D program to create your art. Post work is allowed.
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