3D World issue 69

Special anime issue: exclusive interviews with Japan’s leading animation studios and detailed tutorials for creating your own anime art

Recreate our cover star
Turn the DAZ model on the CD into this month’s fiery cover star with the help of our Poser 6 masterclass. Plus: better ways to simulate anime-style shading in Maya

Exclusive interviews
Co-director Takeshi Nozue talks candidly about Advent Children, Square’s first full-length movie since the ill-fated Spirits Within, while Studio Ghibli’s Mitsunori Kataama (quite literally) deconstructs its follow-up to Spirited Away, the imposing Howl’s Moving Castle…

The secret history of anime
It may look hand-drawn, but Japanese animators have been flirting with CG for over 20 years. Anime historian Jonathan Clements looks back on two decades of digital art

Who killed Henson’s Creature Shop?
As the legendary studio closed its London offices, other 3D studios were quick to blame the current UK tax regime. 3D World takes up the cause

Tips and tricks
Rig hydraulic joints in Cinema 4D, simulate bullet impacts in 3ds Max, get started with LScript, and work with HDV footage at 16:9 in After Effects. Plus tips for ZBrush, Blender, Bryce and messiah:animate

On test this issue
Specialist 3D workstations: what does £4,000 buy you? Plus industrial modelling powerhouse solidThinking 6.5, new visualisation tool Antics Pre-Viz, and Genetica 2 - a better alternative to tiling textures by hand?

Plus
First glimpses of Maya 7, XSI 5 and 3ds Max 8; Made in Terragen: how Digital Domain adapted the popular freeware landscaping tool for use on Stealth; and your chance to win Autodesk software, ATI graphics cards and DVDs worth over £7,000!

On the CD
Poser 6 (trial)
Sample Poser 6’s powerful new lighting and rendering tools. This brand-new trial version is available for the first time on any magazine CD

DAZ anime content worth $120
A selection of pre-built clothing, morphs, maps, poses, hairstyles and props for DAZ Productions’ popular Aiko 3 Poser character, also included on the disc

Digital Fusion training and more!
Two supplementary video tutorials on using noise layers in this powerful compositing package, 35 JPEG textures, and project files for all our tutorials