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Now for the first time in
the history of animation ADA creates a professional league among animators,
similar to those of NFL, NBA, MLB.
ADA divided the planet into
4 divisions and each division will consist of 30 professional teams!
In order to select the best
teams there will be held a 16-week Championship starting on 7 October. The main
prize is $100,000 but every week you will also have a chance to win $10,000.
Absolutely anybody who
created an animated clip and uploaded it to www.adasport.com can take part in
the Championship.
Animated clips can be in any
animation genre and the duration should be from 15-60 seconds.
The animated character in
the clip sh...
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Hello All,
We are in the process of making a major switch to our sites.
Highend3d.com and Fxshare are going to merge and become www.creativecrash.com .
CreativeCrash is an entirely new platform that has many new focus areas. While Highend3d/Fxshare were mostly known as download sites in
the past, and the new platform extends the download capabilities greatly; each
file now has forums, feature requests, bugs, image viewer, tags, and
more. However, when you log into CreativeCrash you will be at your dashboard.
Your dashboard is now a focal point of the site, which combines social and
business networking into one location. Much like facebo...
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REAL PETS RESCUE SNOW-BOUND SHOPKEEPER IN DDB CHICAGO'S
BUD LIGHT "SNOWED IN" BROADCAST SPOT FROM DIRECTOR PHIL JOANOU
HOLLYWOOD
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Animators Are Some of the
Happiest Workers in America,
Survey Finds
Third-party survey commissioned by
AnimationMentor.com reveals career
trends in the animation industry
Emeryville, CA October 16, 2008 AnimationMentor.com (Animation Mentor), the leading online character
animation school created by animators for animators, today unveils key findings
from an animation industry survey that shows a vibrant and healthy workforce
with a bright future. Animation Mentor
commissioned independent research firm Knowledge Wave International to conduct
the survey to gain insight into an insiders view on industry trends, job
titles, job satisfaction and salari...
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Highend3d announces the winner from our February Character Rig Submission Contest.The winneri is: Ryokukitsune who submitted the Renamon CharacterThe winner was select by random from the database of all users who had submitted character rigs to all sections on highend3d.com. He has won his choice of 5 DVDs from thegnomonworkshop.com.Congratulations Ryokukitsune and thank you to all who submitted character rigs and were entered into the drawing.There are now over 50 fully rigged characters on highend3d free to download for all users. Character rigs can be found in the respective download sections of Maya, XSI, and 3dsmax. We are looking forward to seeing this resour...
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With todays traditional workstation model pricing, many organizations can only afford to deploy professional graphics solutions to select designers and engineers, leaving a significant portion of the workforce with sub-optimal products. This is about to change as NVIDIA Corp. announced today NVIDIA Quadro FX 470, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 Low Profile (Quadro FX 370 LP), an entry-level Quadro graphics boards for small form factor systems.
Honoring NVIDIAs commitment to tailor its Quadro professional line to the specific needs of the end user, the Quadro FX 470 and Quadro FX 370 LP GPU deliver high performance and flexibility at...
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We are pleased to release version 2.0 of our Digital Dictionary. The HIGHEND3D 3D/Fxshare digital dictionary is one of the largest
online digital term dictionaries specifically targetted at computer graphics helping to index computer graphic
definitions and software terms.
By teaming up with Bob Pank (Digital Fact Book, Quantel) and Ron
Brinkmann (Author Art and Science of Digital Compositing Book, Apple) we have taken two of the largest digital dictionaries and
compiled them into one source.V2 of of the dictionary adds wiki type tools to allow users to submit new terms, edit current terms, and submit images into the descriptions.You will now see these definitions linked from articl...
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You can now select Maya 8 and 3ds max 9 in the version support area of all uploads in their respective sections.
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We have added new Character rig download sections to our 3dsmax, maya, and xsi sections. You can now download, share and host your character rigs. You can also upload new versions by updating your rig file. Owners have the ability to create a forum and respond to user comments and suggestions as well.These rigs can be used to learn animation techniques, create quick previz ideas, learn how to use new features, and scripts from the site.If you have any rigs to share go to the respective section and on the top right click on "upload your character rigs":Maya Character Rig SectionXSI Character Rig Section3ds max Character Rig SectionThese sections were created by request. Any o...
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Melbourne, Australia June 30, 2009 Parry Animation Studios, founded by Jack Parry and Marianna Parry, in association with Screen Australia has released its latest CG-animated
short, Calypso.
The
film is the result of the collaboration between Parry Studios and the multi-award winning Australian Animation/Director/Producer Sarah Watt, one of Australia's most celebrated animators. Calypso, which is Directed
by Jack Parry, and Produced by Marianna Parry is the story of an old man's escape from
dying. In the not-so-distant future our elderly are left to be cared
for by machines. George, an abandoned, terminally ill man, has been
left to end his...
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Highend3d.com, one of the world's largest 3D resource communities, and iZ3D, globally renown for its
22" Widescreen 3D monitors, have joined to create a new contest for 3D artists!
One talented winner will receive a brand new iZ3D 22" Widescreen 3D
Monitor. iZ3D has turned to the creative community at highend3d.com to
create an exciting animated banner utilizing 3D graphics for its new
marketing campaign.
The 22" iZ3D is an advanced video monitor capable of displaying
impressive into-screen and out-of-screen 3D images with passive
polarized glasses. iZ3D is designed to replace standard two-dimensional
monitors while maintaining commercial image quality and di...
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We had a bug with our spam filter that has seemingly eaten a lot of emails sent through our comment form on the site. This is now fixed.If you have sent us a mail in the last 30 days and have not gotten a response, please resend your query to us in our contact us form
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Hello Everyone,To anyone that is subscribe to any of our list servers with a yahoo mail address you probably have not seen any mail come through since the 13th. Apparently yahoo has put us on a temporary ban. We have filled out all the necessary forms to get to the bottom of this. Hopefully this problem will be resolved asap. In the meantime you may want to resubscribe to any lists with a non yahoo account.Thanks,will
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Highend3d.com and Fxshare.com are pleased to announce our new 5 minute fully hosted tutorial system.
This system allows any user who has text, screen shots, movies, or existing tutorials, to easily publish a multi page fully hosted tutorial on our sites within 5 minutes for free. The system uses our proprietary wysiwyg editor which allows users who know no html to easily create a formatted tutorial containing graphics, movies, and even scene files all hosted directly on our server. Users can also create a forum for every tutorial with just one click. A forum allows readers to share their ideas and create new conversations about the topics submitted.
The owner of the tutorial also ha...
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Ecosystem simulation in Houdini
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Now that Maya 8.5 has python built in we have now added a python scripting forum and python faq sections to highend3d:Maya Python Forum:/boards/index.php?showforum=723Maya Python FAQ:/maya/faqs/python/Python scripts can also now be uploaded to our Mel Scripts download section If there are any python experts out there who would like to be forum leaders on the new forum please contact me.If anyone has any other suggestions for python related resources needed on the site please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.Will
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A52 and Raul Ortego Add New Dimensions to Nike Golf Campaign
from Wieden+Kennedy and Smuggler Director David Frankham
HOLLYWOOD
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Professionals searching for oil, diagnosing illness or styling the next high-performance luxury vehicle all have one thing in common, the need for advanced visual computing solutions. NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today unveiled the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800.
The size and complexity of data is growing at an exponential rate. The challenge for todays professional is to make sense of the mountain of data by distilling it into a form they can comprehend, analyze and use to make impactful decisions, said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA. At stake can b...
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PHIL TIPPETT OF TIPPETT STUDIO TO KEYNOTE AT THE //ADAPT 2007 CONFERENCE IN MONTREAL
//ADAPTs Special Feature Presentation Program to Showcase Creative Works from Industrial Light & Magic and DisneyPixar
(Montreal, Canada) Thursday, June 28, 2007 Today, Digital 04 Studios is thrilled to announce additional speakers to the //ADAPT 2007 Conference line up. Opening the conference will be award-winning visual effects supervisor and animation pioneer, Phil Tippett as the Keynote speaker. The //ADAPT 2007 conference will also feature Todd Vaziri from Industrial Light and Magic, who will present segments from Transformers, and Michael Fong from Pixar ...
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Hey Everyone,There are lots of things going on at and around siggraph that do not really fit into news or events section so I created the SIGGRAPH 2007 Forum. Feel free to post anything related to SIGGRAPH there.If anyone is attending and interested in blogging about your experiences, please contact me at will@highend3d.com. Thanks,Will
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Two Powerhouse Packages - One Dynamic WorkflowThe Power Integration Tour presents free seminars demonstrating how you can enjoy increased speedand efficiency in your production pipeline by combining the power of Adobe CS3 Production Premiumand MAXON CINEMA 4D. The Adobe/MAXON workflow is the proven choice for top motion design studiosworldwide.The Power Integration Tour will demonstrate how combining the power of Adobe Creative Suite 3,Production Premium and MAXON's CINEMA 4D can produce stunning 3D motion designs faster and easierthan ever before. Attendees will be taught how to create dazzling 3D broadcast designs.Representatives of MAXON and Adobe will cover an array of motion graphics...
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Announcing the Highend3d.com February Character Rig Contest sponsored by The Gnomon WorkshopAny user that submits a character rig from today until March 8th, 2007 will automatically be entered into a drawing to receive their choice of 5 DVDs from The Gnomon WorkshopRules:Submit any character rig to any of the following character rig sections on highend3d.com:Maya Character Rigs - Submission LinkXSI Character Rigs - Submission Link3dsmax Character Rigs - Submission LinkContest date ends March 8th, 2007* Any users that have submitted character rigs previously they will automatically be entered into the drawing.About Highend3d Character Rig SectionsHighend3d.com provides the ability ...
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NVIDIA Corp. further demonstrates its commitment to break through visual computing performance barriers with todays introduction of the new NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2200 S4 Visual Computing System (VCS), the worlds fastest 3D accelerator for remote graphics visualization and rendering. Designed to address the most demanding remote graphics and offline rendering challenges, the Quadro Plex 2200 S4 VCS is available in a standard 1U form factor for large-scale server deployment delivering unprecedented performance and visual compute density for oil and gas exploration, medical imaging and styling and design applications.
The Quadro Plex S4 2200 is our biggest generational leap in mul...
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We've now added version support for Maya 2008 and 3ds max 2008 to the site. So you can add and update your files to reflect this.Will
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nVidia will present the latest on hardware andsoftware rendering with a special screening of thefirst in their new series of animated shorts PlushLife and will provide a Mental Mill Presentation. Topics will cover Gelato and MoCA, Fx Composer 2 andPerf Tools.DAY / DATE / TIME:Tuesday, January 8, 2008 6:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.PROGRAM:6:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. - Social Hour & Hors d'oeuvres. (Social Hour may be outside, weather permitting, sodress warm)IMPORTANT NOTE: Food and Water will be provided atno charge. Barnsdall will run a Cash Bar, with Beer, Wine, CoffeeandSoft Drinks.7:30 9:30 P.M. Program Presentation.ADMITTANCE:6:30 P.M. - Priority admittance for Members only....
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Check out the review here
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I just wanted to wish everyone who celebrates a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone and their families.I hope everyone can take a bit of a break and be ready for another great year of CG refreshed and renewed :)Will
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Hey Guys,I am looking for beta testers for a new blog system we have in place. If you are interested in having your own blog and helping to test, please send me a pm.Thanks,Will
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Hey Everyone,We fixed the problems with the submission. If you had submitted something anywhere on the site (aside from the forums) in the last few days please resubmit it.Sorry for the inconvenience.Will
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We are currently upgrading our servers and software. We are still working on the bug that is preventing new registrations.We are aware of skin problems in the forums.You may have experienced problems uploading files or submitting articles/news. If you have we did not receive your submission: please submit again. Those problems should be resolved now.Thanks for your patience.Will
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Happy New Year Everyone!I wanted to wish everyone the best for this new year. May all yoru plans, hopes, animations and effects be better then last!Thank you all for another great year. In 2006 we hit 51,000,000 downloads - more then I ever thought possible now 10 years ago when the site was first started. I hope I can continue to make all your jobs easier and lives around 3d and effects a bit more fun in '07.So here's to another year... Cheers.Will
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We are hiring :)Highend3d.com and Fxshare.com are in need of motivated part time staff to help with all areas of the site.Please take a look at the job requirements if interested
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Last month was fantastic for www.highendcareers.com . Over 600 paying jobs posted from major studios around the world. You will now see these jobs rotated on the left hand side of the page under "Latest Jobs" . If you are in a specific section such as Maya or Shake, you will see jobs respective to those applications listed. If you are in the global section you will see all jobs.HighendCareers now offers the ability for an advanced search so you can search by location, industry, job title, and list all jobs by any specific studio.You will also see our new top bar at the top of the page so you can easily jump to different sections on all of our sites; highe...
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Warren Grubb describes the process of their facial animation rig in Maya on character Delgo from the feature film./maya/tutorials/character/276.html
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ARTVPS and mental images collaborate on new raytracing solutions
The field of ray tracing visualisation is set to see further developments in 2006, heralded by the announcement of a partnership between two of the sector
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We are looking for users of Nuke, Final Cut, Motion, SoundTrack, DVD Studio Pro, After Effectcs, and Combustion to help with new communities. If you have any tips, tutorials, scripts, want to help with reviews, write columns or think you can contribute in anyway, please contact me.my address is will@ (the web site you are on) Thanks,Will
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Fixed a mail problem that stopped list server mail, message board mails, registration mails, etc.Spam these days causing so many problems :(
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We added nuke download sections and tutorial sections.ok you few guys out there, share what you got :)
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We had a bug that causing problems on submissions that is now fixed. If you submitted a gallery image, dvd, or news in the last few days, please submit again.
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