There's a new dedicated blog for Poser and DAZ Studio, edited by MyClone! http://www.jurn.org/dazposer/ 
A detailed but swift Elder Scrolls: Skyrim "install and optimise" guide, for those with older gaming PCs. 
Google's massively popular online video sharing platform YouTube has announced that the total number of playbacks on the site during 2011 was more than 1 trillion. 
Submissions for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards open December 7th. People get ready! 
Neo-Victorian, a new steampunk experiment in machinima and freeform roleplay. Collaborative website for the role-players and film-makers of the NeoVictoria SIMs of Second Life. Moviestorm 1.5 is now available! We promised we’d get it to you by the end of the year, and here it is. Moviestorm 1.5 includes a lot of new features. You can find full details in the release notes, along with the main bug fixes. Here are just some of the highlights... 
Can a video game change the world?At the "Minecraft" convention in Las Vegas, crazily costumed obsessives say yes... The UK's RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is running a short film competition. Animation is accepted. Entries worldwide are accepted. 
My conversion for iClone 5, and more subtle and convincing retexturing, of KARE's 75437 Armchair. Low poly, at 25k faces. Useful for steampunk scenes, 'swinging 1960s'... 
Here's my free iClone conversion of InfameDavid's new Creative Commons LowPoly Robot. Edit it in iClone with the Motion Layer (it's all articulated, including fingers — you'll figure it out after... 
New documentary feature announced, PuppetVision: The Movie. "For the past several years as I’ve been filming interviews with and performances by puppeteers in different cities and different... An interesting looking new paperback from Pakt, Google SketchUp for Game Design: Beginner's Guide. It's aimed at the indie game-designer, but the focus is on building low-poly assets with a free tool... |
A useful round-up of H.P. Lovecraft 3D resources for DAZ/Poser and iClone users... MotionPoems..."a short film (usually less than 3 minutes in length) that treats a great contemporary poem as a script."... 
Kang sent over his 22-minute-long "Eye of the Storm" mini-movie and included some information as to just how arduous the film-making process was... 
IKinema announces WebAnimate Public Beta, the new browser-based animation service. WebAnimate’s built-in toolset allows users to fashion rigs, manipulate bones, retarget/ customize motion capture data and animation all very quickly. Based off the same IKinema technology that major studios like Framestore and 20th Century Fox trust, independent studios and individuals working on games, films, and mobile projects can now realize realistic and believable animation at a price they can afford. Free in beta. Thereafter, a pay service. 
Bethesda has announced that 10 million copies of Skyrim have now shipped. The game is the most played of 2012, and has taken over 24 "Game of the Year" awards. Bethesda has announced that they will ship the free Creation Kit for Skyrim during January 2012, furthering machinima creation with the game. Having already taken $650m in sales, Skyrim could bring in $1bn by Q1 2012. 
As Kenyan tech companies push for their vision of a "silicon savannah" in this East African nation, local animators say their industry is set to ride the high-tech wave toward becoming an animation powerhouse. Kenya's animation industry began to blossom with a series of U.N.-sponsored training programs from 2004-2006, which brought Kenyan animators together with artists from around the world. Now they sell series to the BBC. 
Let’s take a step back and look at the year in machinima, by reflecting on the plethora of talented contestants that participated in the UWA MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists Challenge. Such participation shows the growth of the machinima community and the maturity of the art form in and of itself. I would venture to conclude that it was a wonderful year for virtual filmmaking in Second Life. This is the keynote speech given by academic Henry Lowood to open the 2011 Machinima Expo, 19 Nov. 2011, in Second Life. Ricky Grove directed the machinima capture... 
Chuck & The Neighbours pack now available on the official iClone store. You also get a natural base (i.e. nude) version of the new G5 characters that ship free with iClone 5. $99 until 31st Dec... 
Sen has just placed two nude G5 avatars on the Reallusion Marketplace, at a mere 200 points. She has found a way to remove the clothes in the new G5's that ship with iClone 5, and has also taken off... 
Animated games for kitty cats. Just make sure you get a claw-proof cover for your iPad or Kindle Fire... "Earlier this year Whiskas cat food launched three games aimed specifically at the cat market." 
Here's my free iClone project file, for the iClone 5 'pencil sketch' render demo that I showed when iClone 5 was first released. The .zip also includes the step-by-step instructional... |
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