3D World issue 77

Hot new animation and more in our latest issue, on sale now

3dw77cover200IN THE MAGAZINE

Young animators of 2006
From the brooding, abstract 90 Degrees to the playful surrealism of our cover movie, Clik Clak, our pick of the 10 best student animations of the year should amuse, enchant and enthrall in equal measure.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Blue Sky’s sequel to its 2002 box office smash features complex squash-and-stretch animation, new fur and fluids simulations, and vegetation… lots of vegetation. So how on earth did the studio complete the movie in just nine months?

Liquid genius
Impressed with RealFlow? You ain’t seen nothing yet. As the processing power of new graphics hardware increases, we investigate a new wave of simulation tools that may allow artists to literally choreograph the movements of fluids

Tips and tricks
Our new three-part series of tutorials on creating a disaster movie-style effects shot kicks off with a look at how to set up a VFX pipeline in 3ds Max and Combustion. Plus cinematography tips for 3D animators, and Q&As for Maya, XSI, LightWave, Cinema 4D, After Effects, EIAS, messiah:animate, Bryce and DAZ Studio

On test this issue
Best DVD writers; trueSpace 7 – long awaited but still lacking polish?; FrameForge 3D Studio 2, boujou bullet 2, FaceGen Modeller 3.1 and Twixtor 4.5 for Softimage XSI on test; Cinema 4D hair solutions: Hair and Fast&Fur go head to head

Plus…
Win a Gypsy5-Torso mocap suit and full copy of MotionBuilder Pro or one of two half days at motion capture studio Animazoo in our incredible $20,000 competition!

ON THE CD

Carrara Studio 2.1 (full)
A full copy of Eovia’s popular 3D modelling, rendering and animation package for both Windows and Macintosh. As originally sold for $399.

Silver-Wings.co.uk models (as sold for $500)
Three high-quality models of aircraft, licensed for use in commercial projects, and complete with textures. Each comes in 3DS, MAZ, C4D and LWO formats

And much more!
Other disc contents include handy texturing utility UVMapper Classic (PC/Mac) and ten tiling textures. Note: due to limitations of space, the supporting files for our Q&As this issue can be downloaded from the Stop Press section of the site.