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

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

The Hunter model has been made for the Hellgate London cinematic , made by Blur Studio. Later on, Alessandro Baldasseroni (character modeling at Blur Studio) decided to make an illustration for fun, using some additional models previously done.

You can read an interview with Alessandro here.

Submitted by: Stryker

The first trailer for Igor has finally debuted online after originally showing at the New York Comic Con. Igor is an animated movie starring John Cusack as the voice of Igor. In a world filled with mad scientists and evil inventions, one talented evil scientist’s hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair.

Click the image to watch the trailer and read more about it on FirstShowing.net. You can also watch the trailer in HD here (under “Other formats” section).

Igor Movie is scheduled for this fall, about September 19th.

Via: 3DM3

Eat3D.com presents to its customers “Unreal Materials: An Introduction and Application” DVD. All content is dedicated to explanation of materials creation process for Unreal Tournament 3 scene. 3DM3.com performed a review of this product

Submitted by: Stryker

I’ve just run across this: Picasso’s Guernica recreated in 3D! Worth to have a look!

Via: Alt1040

CGSociety has published a new article about Iron Man movie, go check it following the link in the image above.

RayFire Tool 1.33 Plugin for 3ds MAX 9 , 2008 and 2009 has been released.

RayFire Tool gives you the ability to shoot, destroy, demolish, ruin, break down, make havoc, blow up, burst, detonate, explode and do other similar things you have always dreamed of to do in Max.

Wow. Check it by yourself clicking the image above. Once there you can also download HD versions of the trailer. Really waiting for this movie!

Via: Hot Air

Check out the second trailer for this Dreamworks’ movie, scheduled for June the 6th!

Via: CGTalk