Out Of This World Savings In Graphics Software At Content Paradise (Read more...)

Groboto is just $49.99. That's over 35% off the regular retail price ($79.99). It’s an amazing software to make awesome fractal mechanisms that can be animated and look rich in detail. A really strange software that can create stunning effects that you see something in the most famous digital artists.

Anime Studio is at the ridiculous price of $19.99 …

Anime Studio is a software that allows to create animation movies with 2D comic characters that can be articulated and posed like in Poser. If you’re an animation artist, a web comic author, or whatever, you’ll love Anime Studio, plus it will save you lots of hours of work.

And ArtRage less than $30!! ArtRage is a natural painting program, that allows to make digital painting, this is, apply traditional techniques to digital canvas.

Koinup And Moviestorm Present "The 1 Minute Machinima Contest" (Read more...)

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.

Massive Trade Shows In Immersive 3D With 3DXplorer (Read more...)

Today Altadyn announced the support in 3DXplorer of AmazonEC2’s cloud platform that enables massive trade shows with an audience of over 50,000 attendees in full immersive 3D.

AMAZON EC2 servers were used in a first place recently during CloudSlam’10™, a global conference on Cloud Computing held on 3DXplorer in March 2010, with thousands of participants from around the globe.

 

"Altadyn's platform helped our conference to introduce new products this year, 3D virtual exhibition and networking lounge, adding more business value for both exhibitors and attendees."
-Commenting on the conference success, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov

Now, 3DXplorer supports AMAZON EC2 web services, and offers standard pre-configured instances with their plugin-less browser-based solution for virtual meetings. Customers just have to acquire these services for their virtual events, that as said before can host over 50,000 attendees.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier and more accessible.

"High Performance, Reliable, Flexible, Inexpensive, Accessible, Highly Scalable and Easy-to-set-up, … all the criteria are gathered for using AMAZON EC2’s web services for virtual events. Very large Virtual Tradeshows can now be scaled up at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions, while offering full immersion and interactivity, thanks to the replication of 3DXplorer spaces over the cloud. ” - Darius Lahoutifard, Altadyn's CEO.

Mid-size publishers, conference organizers and tradeshow professionals of any size can now develop high-end 3D immersive virtual events solutions, without spending for costly infrastructures. They can use the high-end platform tailored exactly to their needs, with reliable and performing servers in the right geography (East Coast US, West Coast US, Europe, Asia), for just a few days (duration of the event).

http://www.3dxplorer.com/

Genetica Texture Pack 6 and Viewer 3.5 (Read more...)

Spiral Graphics Inc. has released its sixth free seamless texture pack, with 136 path and plant textures that can be used royalty-free in game, movie, and other art-related projects.

The new pack makes extensive use of the texture synthesis ability recently added to Genetica 3.5.  Texture synthesis allows artists to easily create seamless textures from photographs.

  

Genetica Viewer, Spiral Graphics' free texture rendering tool, has also been updated to version 3.5.  The updated Viewer is able to open texture files created with version 3.5 of Genetica, meaning that it too can now render textures based on photographic sources.

Texture Pack 6 is available at http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/

Genetica Viewer 3.5 is available at http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/viewer/

Spiral Graphics Inc. is a software development firm focused on creating innovative software tools for the computer graphics community.

If you didn’t, read the review about their fantastic texture creation suite: Genetica 3.5

Write For A Book About Your App (Read more...)

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.