Category Archives: General

doing low resolution models for a game and want to have a better viewport? use ofusion. it works especially good together with ogre, an open source real time 3d engine.

i friend of mine just pointed me out to some neat freeware called poseray which i never heard of before and definitely should be mentioned as a little swiss army knife 3d tool: if you don’t need it for …

pixar offers a great ressource for animators and cg-artists, but also for explorers in 3d math. let’s hope this library will be constantly maintained by its authors.

a nice and free monthly ezine (pdf) can be downloaded at cgarena. the general topics are: postproduction, 3d content creation, challenges and several other cg related stuff. nice read to look what others are doing and how they’re doing …

from time to time i’m looking into various landscape generation packages to find an ideal solution for the creation of impressive backgrounds for image compositions. the market is covered with a lot of tools which all have their specific …

e-on software, creators of the fabulous vue d’esprit software, just launched an interesting competition which a think i want to contribute something to. where’s my sketchbook? i already have some neat ideas.

3dplants.com offers a huge repository of textured plant models for most 3d packages available on the market. very low price, medium to good quality – worth the buy if you’re in a hurry modelling a nature scene.

neat plant materials (models, generating software, textures) from greenworks. some of them have been featured in pixar’s ‘the incredibles’. they also provide a free plugin for 3dsmax (although they’re still talking about the integration their xfrog into 3dsmax version …