U2-3D: The world’s greatest rock band go 3D. The band have taken on third dimension, and have just released the worlds first 3d live action movie, which was shot during their 2005-6 Vertigo tour in Mexico City and Beunos Aires. The movie is directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington.

Somewhere between racetracks filled with Ferraris and Porches, thirty story buildings of Monaco the long running event of Imagina resides. The event has in the past been primarily focused on CG images and 3D in films and video games. Over the past couple of shows however, it has also introduced the growing architectural visualization market

When you use a piece of software most of the day, you get to know what’s great about it and also the things that drive you mad. Let’s have a look at some of the new features of Max 2008 and see which can be useful for day to day use. 

If you have tried to make a furry or hairy character in an animation, you know the problems involved and you realise why you generally only see the larger studios use it in their films.

Introduced in 2002 at the SIGGRAPH, this plug-in has been a revolution for most 3D companies looking for a light, fast way of doing fully 3D realistic trees. Easy to install and as easy to use, it includes Speed Tree CAD Lite that allows you to create your own customized trees in addition to the large library available.