Jun 17

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Stan Winston, an Oscar-winning visual effects artist, has died at age 62.

Winston died at his Malibu home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio.

“Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family,” a spokeswoman said.

Winston won four visual effects Oscars and earned multiple nominations. His first Oscar was for James Cameron’s “Aliens” (1986). Winston later won two Oscars for “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1992) (visual effects and makeup) and 1993’s “Jurassic Park.”

A long list of films are left for audiences to admire Winston’s work:

The Thing (1982), Friday the 13th Part III (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Monster Squad (1987), Predator (1987), Leviathan (1988) Pumpkinhead (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Batman Returns (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Congo (1995), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996), T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996), Ghosts (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), Lake Placid (1999), End of Days (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), A.I. (2001), Jurassic Park III (2001), When Darkness Falls (2002), Big Fish (2003), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Wrong Turn (2003), Constantine (2005), Iron Man (2008), Avatar (2009) and Terminator 4 (2009).

Via: CG-Node

May 22

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From May 22th to October 15th, IT’S ART will be organizing a contest called “We Humans.” In either 2D or 3D, you must try to describe what sort of situation, real or imaginary, these few words can inspire you to create.

The best submissions will also be featured in a special dedicated book and/or in an IT’S ART Issue.

More than $21.000 prizes!

May 20

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CGArena has published a new making of where Max Edwin Wahyudi explains the process of creating this image. Used Maya, Mental Ray and Zbrush.

Submitted by: Ashish Rastogi

May 20

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Plamen Iliev explains how he used 3ds Max 9/2008, ZBrush 3.1, BodyPaint and Photoshop to make his image “Assasin”.

Submitted by: Stryker

May 16

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This week The Gnomon Workshop is releasing two new titles:

May 15

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A REAL version of Wall-E has been seen wandering the streets of LA! It’s really funny, watch the video following the link on the image or click on “Continue reading” to watch it right from CG-Today!

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May 15

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In this making of, Aziz Mahsoon explains the lighting, texturing and rendering steps/settings taken for creation of this image. 3ds max + Vray

May 15

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Follow the link on the image or click here to watch Hulk Trailer #3.

Via: 3DM3

May 15

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GameRecruiter has announced its online 3D art contest, Battle of the SuperModelers! As part of their 20th anniversary celebration, GameRecruiter has designed this contest to support and promote 3D artists in the games community, professional or student. Here’s your chance to create an original real-time character model of a monster, creature, robot or alien that might be found in a fantasy, sci-fi or horror game and win fantastic prizes, totalling US$50,000!

Via: CGSociety

May 13

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CG Arena has posted a new making of, this time about a character mixing Gears of War/Unreal and Starcraft. Check it following the image link.

Submitted by: Ashish Rastogi