Renderosity COUPON: 20% Off Until Sunday 28 Feb (Read more...)

Apply coupon code 022810B20P20 to your order at the time of checkout, and you'll get 20% off of your purchase of $20.00 or more.

This coupon expires February 28, 2010 at 11:59pm (CST) Renderosity system time, so take advantage of these sweet savings today.
During checkout, be sure to enter the coupon code above in the box marked "COUPON" and hit the apply button to see your savings.  Coupon discount CANNOT be applied after checkout.

In addition, don't forget to share the love by adding Renderosity to your favorite social networking sites. Doing so means you could win! We are also sharing the love by giving you Render Rewards if you spend $25 or more in the month of February!

And now, for aviation model lovers for Poser and DAZ Studio, this is another suggestion, that of course includes my model Ace Of The Skies, is only $17.80

And to reach the $20 and get the 20% Off, you can buy this fantastic SteamPunk - Hat Set

All DAZ Platinum Club Items Now $1.99 For Everyone (Read more...)

DAZ has completely gone nuts and they sell all the items for DAZ Platinum Club for $1.99. For Platinum Club Members, it is even cheaper, from $0.97 to $1.39.

Run, it is only through February 28, 2010 --- IT ENDS THIS SUNDAY!

Go here and get the items!

Connect Frenzoo With Facebook (Read more...)

Frenzoo has made some improvements in their platform in the last weeks that add very valuable features and make their virtual world stand out.

1. Facebook Connect

New users can now create accounts using Facebook Connect, and avoid the annoyance of creating another user/password. In addition, this ads increased security for you. 

It's a choice for users to decide if they want to connect their real life with their virtual life. So Facebook Connect is optional, and also when you use it you have the option to display real life info (age, name) or not - it's your choice. 

2. Mini-Machinima

This is a really fun little feature, which allows users to take animated snapshots.  Think of it as directing a 3 second machinima video, that your can take with a single click (no extra software needed), and create an animated gif movie.

You may want to check the winners of a special contest, judged by Koinup's CEO, that showed the best works.

3. New Chat System

Now you don't have to have a separate popup to manage, it's all on the page, and accessible via a chat bar on the bottom of every page.  You can jump in, out and between chats and the rest of the site easily, and the chat continues, or close all chats with a button.

4. New Pro 3D creator tutorials

There have been a number of new user tutorials created by the community lately: http://www.frenzoo.com/beta/forum.php?section=viewforum&f=72

If you didn't, test Frenzoo, a new virtual world that in my opinion has a good balance of playability and fun.

3DVIA Scenes: Embeddable 3D Scenes (Read more...)

3DVIA is a community for 3D creators very feature-rich. You can read a detailed review by Bruce Lehmann, in this article, to know more about all that you can find there.

Their latest development is 3DVIA Scenes, a very powerful online virtual environment creator that anyone can use to create realistic 3D worlds usable in a web browser.  Only requiring a simple browser plugin, users can drag-and-drop 3D models from our warehouse of over 20,000 models to create realistic 3D scenes. It’s free.



You can add content to scenes in many popular formats, from COLLADA to 3DS and VRML. In addition, users can work together, create and collaborate in the building of a world, and move objects.

All public 3D models are published under Creative Commons License. Keep this in mind if you make your world public. This usually means that people can embed your world in their pages. You just copy an embed code and place it in your website.

You can start your design from some pre-defined base sceneries, and later fill them with your stuff. The environments allow the presence of avatars and chat.

The best feature that 3DVIA Scenes has is that it supports the most popular 3D file formats, so building a world here is as easy as importing them into your scene and placing them. Thus, the reuse of your models can't be easier.

http://www.3dvia.com/scenes/

Koinup's 3D Wallpapers: Virtual World Photos in Your Mobile (Read more...)

Koinup just announced a big project: 3D Wallpapers, a Koinup mobile app that will bring the most awesome contents of the website and the most amazing images of virtual worlds into Nokia mobile.

This paid mobile app that brings the most amazing virtual worlds screenshots and avatar art collections directly to your Nokia mobile. The app will be soon released on the Ovi Store, the Nokia Mobile Application Store.

All the Koinup members can enter the hall of fame and get their images featured in the app. Join the contests and if you will be picked, your images will be included as wallpapers in the application.

Join these contests to get your photos featured in the app:

Avatars
http://www.koinup.com/group/avatars/
Second Life
http://www.koinup.com/group/second-life-snapshots/

While waiting for the announcement of the release date, Koinup members, virtual worlds users, 3D artists can join a series of contests that we launched to aggregate the best images / artworks inspired by virtual worlds and to select a few of them for the mobile app. You can read more about the 3D Wallpapers project and about the contests, here.

The Judges for this first round of competitions  are Torley Linden - Linden Lab documentation team, Poid Mahovlich - Koinup blog editor, Luca Spoldi - SLnn.it founder, Simon Newstead - Simon CEO and founder).