3D World issue 85

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Aardman’s first CG movie
Co-founder Peter Lord explains why the legendary stop-motion studio has swapped Plasticine for pixels for Flushed Away: its first full-length 3D feature

Web 3D for fun and profit
Discover how to use the full copy of WireFusion 4.0 on the CD to create a virtual online gallery for your artwork: more stylish than a standard portfolio!

Master RealFlow
Former MPC Technical Director Gus Sánchez Pérez provides his workflow tips for the exclusive new version of the leading fluid simulation package included on the CD

Tips and tricks
Creating cars for next-gen games: this month, texturing the model and preparing it for export; Simulate an ocean surface in Blender; Software covered in our Q&A section includes 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave 3D, Cinema 4D, XSI, Carrara, Houdini, MotionBuilder and Photoshop

On test this issue
Best monitor colour-calibration devices; Cinema 4D 10 – fantastic for animators, okay for all-round users; inexpensive modelling and rendering package Cheetah3D 3.4; boujou 4; Strata Foto 3D; nifty Poser-to-Cinema plug-in interPoser Pro

Plus…
LIDAR scanning: no longer just for big studios; Legal advice for machinima film-makers; The Brothers Quay discuss life, art and Polish jazz…

 
ON THE CD

WireFusion 4.0 Professional
Full commercial software, as sold for $995: create virtual online worlds with Demicron’s powerful web 3D authoring package

RealFlow 4 (Special Edition)
An exclusive new learning edition of Next Limit’s industry-standard fluid simulation software: as the commercial version, but with a maximum particle count of 50,000

Plus…
Ten Content Paradise Poser 6 assets: clothing sets for Miki and Koji plus five standalone insect models; 11 architectural models; 15 Realword Imagery textures