If is the fourth studio album by New York group Mindless Self Indulgence. It was released through The End Records on April 28, 2008 in the UK and on April 29, 2008 in the US.

As technology evolves, the tools and requirements for creating current-gen game art are constantly changing. In this tutorial we will learn the current game art workflow in its entirety, from the low-poly model all the way to final game-ready asset. We will create a realistic grimy dumpster suitable for any urban setting.

This mammoth video training series features over 194 minutes of video instruction on all aspects of game art creation, including creating the low-poly and high-poly models, the UVW unwrap, baking normal maps from high-poly, and creating diffuse, specular and detail bump textures.

The concept of this artwork was inspired by the famous movie Bladerunner in which, you can see amazing futuristic cityscapes. I always was fascinated by huge cities with thousand of buildings everywhere. When, I went in New York City last summer for Vacations after the Siggraph Convention in Boston, I decided to go on top of the empire State Building with my digital camera and I took hundreds of photos, from different angles. I finally chose 3 photos from of the West view of Manhattan to do this personal project during the winter season. My first idea was simply to increase the height of the foreground buildings by adding towers and antennas, but as I was working, I switched my mind and decided to add ships, far cities, bridges and new rivers.

FumeFX: Essential
Effects specialist and Autodesk Master Allan McKay has created a brand new training DVD for users interested in coming up to speed with the powerful Autodesk Certified Animation plug-in FumeFX. This DVD demystifies the various controls for making believable FumeFX simulations. You'll be amazed at what the FumeFX engine is capable of, creating everything from animated burning paper and huge fiery explosions to bubbling caudrons and dirt/dust effects.

Fume FX: Advanced
The sequel to the highly acclaimed Fume FX: Essentials, which is has made its way into practically every major visual effects studio around the world as their primary resource for fluids and Fume FX, as well as utilized during the development of many big Hollywood visual effects films. With over 10,000 units sold, this makes the Fume FX: Essentials the most popular fluids training resource for 3D Studio Max in the world!

In this tutorial Waniek will try to explain some techniques and show you how to bake and create normal maps, which become very popular in this days, specially in game industry.

Software used: zBrush, zMapper, Photoshop CS2

ActiveSMART is a realtime hard drive health status monitor. It utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is timely detecting and anticipating any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

I have spent a long time finding these 3 particulary hard to find packages. These are the 3 key plugins required to push the limits of your photography into the HDR realm, I hope you find them of use.

High Dynamic Range Images - or HDRI for short are the lighting technology for truly realistic 3D-Design. The extra illumination info of a scene which is wrapped into the HDRI-surround image gives your radiosity-scenes a degree of realism so far reserved for Hollywood …

A collection of sound effects from the Lucas Film collection. 585mb of effects to use in your animations or music, enjoy!