daily akcsam
monday afternoon edition - 08. September 2008
computer graphics
Maya tutorials
Autodesk has a great series of free video tutorials for Maya 2009 on site right now.
Interview: Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena of AnimationMentor
I caught up with Shawn and Carlos again at this year s SIGGRAPGH in Los Angeles. We discuss some changes and milestones at AnimationMentor as well as what it s like to work at a big studio....
Open Game project in Montreal, Canada
STUDIO XX, Feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique, is hosting their own Open Game project from October 2008 to June 2009 in Montreal, Canada. The program is built...
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SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
From Global Illumination to Jiggly Fluids to Perception and Hallucination. Find them at ....
It's not funny, It's art
A great short film by Dutch director Joris Oprins. Check it out!...
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design
35 Beautiful Examples Of Rain Photography
Most photographers do not feel comfortable in taking photographs in bad weather. Yet bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of our skills. In particular, in the beginning of autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to capture wonderful photos. Shooting in rain produces dramatic atmosphere and soft romantic scenes.
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Designing for the iPhone: Resources
37 Signals once said about designing for the iPhone: Designing for the iPhone is like a hybrid of print and web design. The web we all know is rife with uncertainty. We dont know the viewers screen size or resolution, we dont know the gamma of someones screen, we dont know if theyve got a certain typeface
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development
Bullet 2.71 Physics SDK released: Disney Maya Plugin, CUDA experiments
Bullet 2.71 Physics SDK has been released. Walt Disney Studios contributed their in-house Dynamica Maya Plugin for Bullet physics simulation. This Dynamica plugin has been used for their upcoming 3D animated movie Bolt. Furthermore some initial work n integrating a btCudaBroadphase has been introduced, to accelerate Bullet performance using CUDA n NVidia GPUs.
Game AI Roundup Week #36 2008: 8 Stories, 2 Jobs, 1 Video, 1 Event
Weekends at are dedicated to rounding up smart links from the web relating to artificial intelligence and game development. This week, as always, there are some good articles and blog posts for you to read. Remember, theres also lots of great content to be found in the forums here! (All you have to
An Examination of Outsourcing Part 2: The Contractor Angle
Recently, Gamasutra spoke with developers and publishers to find out the requirements and advantages for outsourcing -- but this time we take another look at the story, from the perspectives of the outsourcing companies themselves.
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Ca3D-Engine source code licenses available!
A new version of the Ca3D-Engine has just been released. The Ca3D-Engine is a modern game engine and game development kit with 3D OpenGL real-time graphics and multi-player network support for Windows and Linux.
Maestro 3D Dental/Desktop Scanner is now available
Maestro 3D is a Three-dimensional scanner for dental and desktop applications, open and integrable in third party CAD/CAM solutions, complete with S.D.K. (Software Development Kit).
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technology
Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent (wk36)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, superhero week, as Iron Man and "Batman" top the chart.
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Ipernity Media Sharing Site Embraces BitTorrent
A site dedicated to the sharing of all kinds of media, from blogs, through photos and video, has embraced BitTorrent. has been in operation since 2004 and has just finished work on a 'secret project' - to implement the sharing of bulky media on the site via BitTorrent and their own tracker.
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from the past
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