Jack Greasley, Mari Product Manager, and Bill Collis, CEO of The Foundry, talk to FX Guide's Mike Seymour and show of Mari. Mari is a brand new 3D texture painting tool from The Foundry. Originally developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded by Avatar, Mari was designed as a full 3D paint tool with a responsiveness and feature-set that puts even the best dedicated 2D paint systems to shame.

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After six months of intense one-man development, it is finally released. Sculptris is a new sculpting and painting application, and it's free!

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iSculptor™ is a complete 3d modeling application for iPhone, iTouch, and iPad, that allows you to create and modify 3d objects.

You can import and export 3d models into and out of iSculptor™ (using the Wavefront OBJ file format).

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It's time for glimpse of the ZBrush 4 beta. Pixologic have put together a funky little video giving us a teaser of what is to come in the next release.Watch Video

For all of you who can't wait any longer to watch this film, here is a little treat to make it easier. Grab this FREE poster and marvel at one of Marvel's character. Get Poster.

Pixar has opened it's new facility in Canada. Aptly named "Pixar Canada", it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios and they are looking to hire staff.

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Check out this great new video work by Patrick Jean. It's great to see some of the old great simple pixel games take over the world in such original style.

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We had a demo of this software at work and from a texturing point of view I was very impressed! Looking forward to taking it for a test drive. The application allows hundreds of production textures to be painted on a model, but rather than be limited to just a static neutral pose, you can import an animation sequence and still interactively work on the texturing. 

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Sony has just announced that they will be bringing Popeye to life in 3D. The film will be released under the Sony Pictures Animation label, with Sony Pictures ImageWorks handling the computer animation. Avi Arad, who teamed with Sony to turn Spider-Man into a powerhouse franchise, is producing. Scribe Mike Jones is in negotiations to adapt.

Toot-Toot! Now where's me spinach!

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We are very proud to announce the first annual Computer Graphics Student Awards - 2010. This new event aims to provide you with an amazing opportunity to showcase your creative and technical skills to the top production studios in London, England. Prizes for this event include over $67,000 worth of Internships, software, and hardware... and all you have to do to enter is upload a single video. Read More...