Friday, August 19, 2011

Latest Animation News

U.S. Postal Service to issue Pixar stamps
The U.S. Postal Service is releasing new first-class stamps featuring a few of Pixar’s most popular characters, including Lightning McQueen and Mater from “Cars” and Remy the rat and Linguini from “Ratatouille.”



First Look at Superman Costume!
As filming begins on Man of Steel, Warner Bros. have released an image of Henry Cavill in full costume as Superman (minus pants?!) giving us our first look at the actor suited up and seemingly tearing off a vault door of some kind…














Iconic animation studio Pixar celebrates its 25th Anniversary!

Blender 2.59 Released
The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.59. This is the third stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years of redesign, development and stabilizing work.

We name this version “Stable” not only because it’s mostly feature complete, but especially thanks to the 1000s of fixes and feature updates we did since the 2.5 beta versions were published.

The next 6 weeks we will merge in changes from some of the Google Summer of Code projects and evaluate improvements which are currently developed for 2.60.













Pixologic unveils ZBrush 4 R2 at SIGGRAPH 2011 Vancouver


Pixologic, Inc., makers of the award-winning ZBrush software attended SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver over August 9th – 11th where they unveiled their latest version – ZBrush 4 Release 2 – to packed audiences.


ZBrush 4R2 introduces many significant new features, as well as major enhancements throughout ZBrush.

New features can be seen in two ‘sneak preview’ movies for ZBrush 4R2 at ZBrushCentral

Sneak Peek #1
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=127664

Sneak Peek #2
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=152654