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MyToons Launches Digital Portfolio System

MyToons.com, the world’s first and only online animation community to offer HD animation, today announced the launch of its ground-breaking Digital Portfolio System. Using the Digital Portfolio System, artists and [...]

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Pepakura Squidoo Lens

Pepakura is really taking the 3D community by storm. There are just so many magnificent paper craft using Pepakura that I had to do a lens on it! I’ve included some interesting videos and more pictures of Pepakura paper craft there. Please visit it at http://www.squidoo.com/pepakura. For the uninformed, Pepakura Designer is a really amazing software [...]

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Pepakura

I’ve written a post on this amazing software called Pepakura before. Basically it’s a software that allows you to print out blueprints from 3D source files. Using these blueprints you would be able to create paper models. A gentleman called Mark Stewart would like to share this video that shows what some people have been doing [...]

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Virtual Realities in Mobile Phones

It is normally texting, talking, e-mailing and clicking pictures that are associated with cell phones, but now, you can access or even display 3D virtual reality simulations or animations on them. Researchers have created a new approach based on outsourcing all the heavy number crunching required by CG and virtual reality simulations to servers, by merging [...]

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3D Animation on IPhone

Animator David OReily created a 3D animation that looks like it is jumping off the screen of the iPhone. The animation utilizes the iPhone’s built-in gyroscope to help create the awesome animation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCOhUHBS8s

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Gates VS Jobs

What could be greater than a lightsaber duel between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? A lightsaber duel where YOU get to control one. And what could be the next best thing to seeing the two big men squabble ‘live’? An animation of them bringing it onto each other! Mr. Jobs is depicted more like a gruff [...]

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Who Says Rome Can’t Be Built in a Day?

CityEngine Generates Rome in One Day Procedural Inc. Ships New Urban Modeling Solution, CityEngine, Allowing Mass Creation of City Models 10 Times Faster for Film & TV Production, Game Development, Architecture and City Planning; Free Trial Version Available For Download. (Zurich, Switzerland, July 21, 2008) At this year’s SIGGRAPH, a spectacular 3D recreation of ancient Rome (A.D. [...]

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A 3D Journey into the Center of the Earth

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RESCUES FILMGOERS IN NEW 3-D FILM By Robert Philpot McClatchy Newspapers Although they get a lot of hype, movies shot in 3-D have historically been a bit of a headache. You’d put on a pair of flimsy cardboard glasses with red-and-blue gel lenses that looked like they might rip during a strong sneeze, and [...]

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Google Tries a Second Life with Lively

Google’s Lively is a Web-based project similar to Second Life. This shows a re-creation of Google headquarters, complete with the T. Rex skeleton. Google on Tuesday plans to unveil an online 3D social arena called Lively, the Internet giant’s take on Second Life. But Google wants it to be part of your first life. Second Life requires [...]

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Disney Launches Programmable Toy Robots

Disney is launching a series of programmable robotic toy products! In conjunction with the launch of WALL-E - the new animated feature from Disney and Pixar starring an adorably dorky robot - in summer this year, Disney will be releasing an innovative line of robotic toys. Amongst them are the iDance Wall-E dancing boombox, the Ultimate [...]

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Fancy Being an Animated Star? Gizmoz Makes it Possible!

Ever dreamt of being an animation star yourself? Apparently a company called Gizmoz has made this possible in a simple way through a proprietry technology that is able to manipulate your photos to form a series of animated expressions. You could then create a series of voice messages that sync with these expressions to send [...]

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Step Aside Tamagotchi, Here Comes Machicara!

You might remember that many years ago in 1996 there was something called Tamagotchi which took the world by storm. It was the first cyber pet to be introduced to the world and came in the form of an electronic device with a simple LCD screen and a few buttons to manipulate with. The goal was [...]

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Club Penguin the 2nd - The Race is On!

Not so long ago, Disney procured Club Penguin - a virtual world for kids between 6 to 14 - for a cool $350 million and the deal also allowed the founders an opportunity to make another $350 million from now till 2009. The website was barely 2 years old when it was procured. At the time [...]

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