The Gnomon Workshop have released  two new titles in their wildly popular “Behind The Scenes” series which gives an in-depth look at the creation of a game cinematic sequence. Produced with the cooperation of Producer Emmanuel Fragelus, Art Director Mark Goerner and Director Louis Bolivar, this series follows a team of artists as they demonstrate their production techniques from concept phase to final rendered animation. Each DVD includes actual production meetings with Art Director Mark Goerner as he goes over the existing designs and lends direction to the project.

This Photoshop tutorial is about completely transofrming a photo and everything that was originally there. Yo will get to learn how an artist creates a digital matte painting in photoshop using various stock photos. This awesome Photoshop tutorial has been created by Andrew of Indonesia at CGArena.com. To learn more about the Photoshop tutorial please go here

Digital Raster Inc. has released new version of its Maya plugin “NEX“…..NEX is a unique plugin for Maya that includes a set of tools designed to increase the speed, accurracy, and efficiency of your workflow. Frequent actions like of manipulating components within Maya become more natural thanks to the unique integration of all NEX selection and transformation tools. Arduous jobs like resurfacing meshes can actually be fun using the NEX Quad Draw tool. Common polygon modeling tasks like Splitting faces, Connecting edges, or beveling have been reworked with maximum efficiency and interactivity in mind. Best of all, NEX does all this without leaving any custom nodes in your scene, or introducing any scene plugin depdendencies.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended, the highly awaited, latest editions of the software for digital imaging. Providing a fluid user experience, complete creative control and higher efficiency, Photoshop CS4 integrates the raw power of the latest hardware to extend imaging possibilities and offer faster, more flexible ways to fulfil main tasks like image adjustments and masks. Most of  these features and more can be found in Photoshop CS4 Extended, which serves users with advanced motion graphics functions, phenominally expanded 3D visualization capabilities and accurate image analysis.

Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended will be available as stand-alone applications or key components of the Adobe Creative Suite® 4 family .

AMC, Inc. has just updated GPS2CAD-08, a powerful Windows application that enables users to bridge the gap between the GPS unit and AutoCAD. In todays street smart world this is very essential. The Version 1.3 is now available. This new version adds some important capabilities to the program.

This is available at gps2cad.com

If you are looking for a good collection of free 3d models of livingroom furniture, bedroom furniture, home accent objects and so on go to archive3d.net, where there are scores of 3d models for free. You can download them and use in your computer graphic work. The models are provided in *.3DS and *.GSM formats. The basic ways of use are 3D Visualisation, Interior Design, Architectural Visualisation, Landscape Design, 3D Animation and 3D Art.

At any time in your 3d work or some graphic art, have you felt the need to include a 3d flag? If you did, here is the perfect place to find professional quality flag pictures, clip-art and animations for the flags you want. Most of the 3d is free  may be used free of charge when accompanied by credit and a link back to 3DFlags.com. For all your free 3d flag needs go to 3dFlags.com

If you always wanted to create the Ultimate 3d texts and banners and were wondering how to do them, here is help at hand. It’s an online 3D text banner creation tool.This unique tool is completely on-line — nothing to download or install. Create your own 3D text banners! Choose a font, colorize it, size it, and jazzercise it — then save it and take it with you. You name it and you can do it!

Avaiable for free at 3dtextmaker.com

This plugin/maxscript combination performs UV Unwrapping based on Least Squares Conformal Maps. It is based on the blender3d implementation by Brecht Van Lommel and Jens Ole Wund. You will set the uv-seams on the object, and the unwrapper will compute uv coords and minimize distortions.
The script now supports proper relative scaling of UV chunks so that it tries to preserve a common texel/unit ratio. Download this 3dsmax plugin HERE

MEL Studio Pro is a Maya plug-in written for MEL script developers. If you know the power of this scripting language and you spend a lot of time using the built-in Maya Script Editor, you are probably aware of some of its limitations. And now MEL Studio Pro is compatible with Maya 8.MEL Studio Pro offers a new development environment for Maya Embedded Language with many features beyond what the built-in script editor offers. Some of the features of MEL Studio Pro include the following:

* Highly integrated into Maya user interface
* Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
* Find/Replace functions
* Unlimited Undo/Redo
* Colored comments, keywords, MEL commands, strings and uncompleted strings, to allow better code understanding
* Error checking on () [] {} pairs.
* Declared procedures list.
* Expressions creation and editing.
* Current line highlighting
* Lines number visualization (to the source code side)
* Current line number visualization (in the Status Line)
* Splittable Editors
* Go to Line number function
* Jump to correspondent Bracket (or parenthesis) function
* Drag & Drop source code to/from the shelf
* Execution of entire code and of selected parts
* Advanced Auto Indentation, to simplify complex code writing
* ReIndent Selection, automatically re-indent code using indentation criteria
* Quick Help - quick-link to the MEL commands documentation
* Complete Command - MEL commands auto complete

Download DEMO..