To mark the 100th issue of 3D World magazine, CGSociety has joined with the 3D World team to find the 100 most influential 3D movies of all time.

The shortlist contains 150 VFX movies and 3D animated features. To qualify for inclusion, each movie had to be at least 60 minutes in length and include a significant amount of 3D work. You can pick up to TEN movies from the list, the ones that had the most influence on you as a 3D artist.

Yesterday night, closing Art Futura, has been celebrated the awards ceremony. CG-Node has been awarded as the best spanish 3D forum/community of 2007. We are very proud of receiving this award, but it’s just the users who really won it. To all of them, I want to say thanks from here(since I know that many of you read this blog).

Click the image to read the notice right at CG-Node. There is also a video to download and some pictures of the event, don’t miss it!

Comet Digital, LLC has just announced that Autodesk, Inc. has acquired the cMuscleSystem plug-in and technology.

Existing cMuscleSystem customers with Autodesk Maya Gold Subscription, formerly Platinum Membership, will now be supported by Autodesk Product Support. Follow the link on the image to read the full notice.

Via: CGTalk

Autodesk has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Skymatter Limited, the developer of Mudbox 3D modeling software. On August 6, 2007, Autodesk announced an agreement to purchase Skymatter’s assets. This acquisition expands Autodesk’s offering for the film, television and game market segments, while providing additional growth opportunities for other design disciplines, such as 3D automotive and industrial design. Mudbox is now complementary to the Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya software products, providing artists with an additional suite of tools for modeling, prototyping and detailing.

SIGGRAPH Encore is an online collection of presentations from the annual SIGGRAPH Conference. You can download presentations for a fee, but for a limited time, until Oct. 31 you can watch them online for free!! It’s a great oportunity to see more than 1100 video presentations from SIGGRAPH 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007! Click the image to go to their website.

Via: BlenderNation

Shipping late november, EXOTIQUE 3 brings together the world’s most beautiful CG characters in genres ranging from science fiction, fantasy, anime, to photo-realism and stylized realism. Featuring 292 pieces of artwork by 197 artists from 45 countries and printed to the high standards that Ballistic Publishing is renowned for, you’ll be completely inspired by the original character art in EXOTIQUE 3!. Follow the link on the image to see a Flash preview of the book!

San Mateo, Calif. — Oct. 8, 2007 — Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, yesterday announced that Pixar Animation Studios and Luxology have finalized an agreement under which Pixar has licensed its Subdivision Surface Patents to Luxology. The agreement covers key Pixar proprietary computer graphics technology that will enhance Luxology’s products. Luxology is making no specific announcements as to when this technology might be incorporated into future Luxology software offerings. The specific terms of the agreement are confidential.

Artbeats has partnered with Adobe to bring you 15 high-quality, full-resolution royalty-free stock footage clips. These clips, available in NTSC and PAL, were chosen specifically from Artbeats’ award winning library to help expand your creative options. All you have to do is click the image above and then, enter the Serial Number of your Adobe® product on their special registration page to receive the clips absolutely free.

At TDT3D they’ve got a comparison table with cons. and pro. for the most know today top industries 3D applications. The table isn’t intended to be complete with all softwares features available but try to surround the common today 3D cg artist tasks.

All softwares listed in the table were deeply tested during a total of about 12 months, trying to make the same work with all of them

3DVF launches CGJobs.eu and CGJobs.fr for employers and jobseekers in France and in all europeans countries. Still on beta, it’s a website for seeking cg-related jobs.