OSCAR WINNERS!

From OSCAR.com:
http://oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/

The best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
The best visual effects & makeup & art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons
The animated feature film: Well-E
The best sound editing: The Dark Knight


奧斯卡獎出爐了，由Slumdog Millionaire(台譯：貧民百萬富翁)奪得最佳影片等八大獎項。
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons(台譯：班傑明的奇幻旅程)奪得最佳視覺特效、最佳化妝及最佳藝術指導。
Well-E(台譯：瓦力)奪得最佳動畫片。
The Dark Knight(台譯：黑暗騎士)奪得最佳音效。當然，最佳男配角也是非小丑莫屬啦！

Autodesk Softimage 7.5

From Autodesk Softimage 7.5:
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/default.aspx
New Features:
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/new_features/default.aspx
Discuss from CGTalk:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=733790

My work "T-Rex" is putting in CGArena aug-sep 2008 magazine!

Hello! This is surprised for me and I am too late to detect it.^^|||

My work "The king of jungle_T-Rex" is putting in CGArena aug-sep 2008 magazine!

This issue↓

and my work is here↓

Dominance War IV First Mini Challenge Has Begun!

From CGTalk:
3D:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=732414&utm_medium=plugblock&utm_source=cgtalk
2D:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=282&t=732416

This is from CGTalk forum, you still can participate another forums.



第一個迷你DWIV比賽正式開始了，全球共有12個主要論壇，有興趣的人可以自行選一個喜歡的加入，這樣就可以參加比賽了。

Open beta for Turtle 5.0 released

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Long time no upgrade. Illuminate Labes announce their new version of Turtle.
Turtle is a rendering plugin for Maya. It is a very fast and quickly for rendering, and now, is for fifth generation.



許久沒有跟新版本的Turtle，Illuminate Labes現在終於宣布Turtle 5.0的Open beta版。
Turtle是一個for Maya的render引擎外掛。他標榜著"時間就是金錢"(Time is money!)的宣傳口號，以快速render著名。自4.0版本後，逐漸將軟體定位在遊戲製作上，尤其是在bake各式各樣的textures，而5.0看來依舊是強化這一點。畢竟品質面仍舊有mentalray這類的巨人擋在前面，不如換條跑道。

Free CrazyBump for layoff victims

Original posted by Ryan Clark from Polycount:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=60951

FXGear: Qualoth & FXHair

http://www.fxgear.net/index.asp

Half Life 2: Escape From City 17_A Live-Action Short Film

Discuss from CGTalk:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=729876

Independent filmmakers the Purchase Brothers have released the first episode of a live-action short film series based on Valve's Half-Life 2 called Escape From City 17, and the results are nothing short of spectacular.


知名遊戲Half-Life 2(台譯：戰慄時空 2)翻拍成小電影了。這是一部獨立製作、低預算成本的短篇電影，但其畫面品質倒一點也不差。

3Ds Max 2010_100+ new modeling features

From Area:
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_shane/blog_detail/100_new_modeling_features/

New additional tool--Graphite Modeling Tools(well, that is PolyBoost Tool(version 4.1))

3Ds Max Design 2010 Announced

From Area:
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_ken/blog_detail/announcement_3ds_max_design_2010/
Older posted:
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_ken/blog_detail/mystery_images_and_video_posted/

Modo 401 Partial Reveal

From:
http://www.luxology.com/modo/401.introduction/
Discuss from CGSociety:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=727015

In this time, Luxology reaveal some features that about Fur, volumatric Lighting, Replicators.



Luxology透露出一些關於modo401的新特色，包括Fur, volumatric Lighting, Replicators。
其中我覺得最驚人的就是Replicators啦！不同於以往的instance，Replicators可以快速又大量地創造出數量驚人的畫面，尤其搭配modo的realtime render，居然可以即時地觀看Replicators的Render結果(啊不知道他們的電腦是怎樣的電腦....)。

Benjamin Button FX

From:http://www.benjaminbuttonfx.com/

36th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2008)

From Annie Award:
http://annieawards.org/foryourconsideration.html

The best animatied feature is "Kung Fu Panda".

CGSociety Special Feature: 3 VFX Oscar nominees

From CGSociety:
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4900

The three films up for visual effects Oscars in 2009 share one thing in common:
an amped up attention to reality.

hm~ This is interesting phenomenon. But these films make so good!


3項奧斯卡VFX提名電影，由CGSociety進行專訪，在開頭就寫到這三部片的共通點即是特別關注寫實。我覺得這個現象值得討論耶，還滿有趣的，如果未來有人要朝這塊領域去發展的話。

Terminator Salvation_Concept Art

From:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/terminator-dire.html

There are some concept art of Terminator Salvation.
and...
I raelly like this poster:
so cool design! ^^ Los Angeles!


這裡有一些Terminator Salvation的概念原畫。很不錯喔。

Section 8 Official Trailer

Watch from Gametrailers.com:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44753.html

This trailer is created by Blur Studio. Their works are so cool~!


由Blur Studio所製作的Section 8預告片。不管哪一部，由Blur Studio所製作的作品都很讚耶~！(真想去那種公司見識見識)

ZBrush_Nick Zuccarello latest Free hi res model download!

From ZBrushCentral_Nick Zuccarello:
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4624676709605277734
You can download here:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/32144/3D-Model/Human-Male-Athletic-Final-Model-(Free-Download!!!)
So many thank Nick Zuccarello!
This model has 6 level, and the wirefram is fitting for animation, that's so great!


來自ZBrushCentral的Nick Zuccarello，分享了他最新的免費高解析度模型，真的是很了不起啊這種人！這個模型的佈線還是適用於作動畫的佈線喔。

Transformers2 - SuperBowl Teaser Trailer

Discuss from CGSociety:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=725271
more photo and video are from Transformers 2 Trailer:
http://transformers-2-trailer.blogspot.com/

Wooo~~This one the boss look like very~~BIG!^^


Transformers2的最新影片已放出了，這次的頭目會不會太大了點啊.....
藉著超級盃，一堆的影片趁勢推出新的預告片，真是有夠大規模的。

Some making of videos about "The Curious case of Benjamin Button" Part2

Original Source: http://www.benjaminbuttonfx.com/
username:sfx
password:buttonsbuttons