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The Blender Foundation has released the first official turntable of the lead character for the the forthcoming Durian project.

Ultimate Unwrap3D Pro now has the ability to import model directly into CS3/CS4.

The Plugin is enables the user to save a model in the native Unwrap3d file-format (.u3d) and import it directly into Photoshop with all textures and lighting intact.

Ultimate Unwrap3D Pro 3.19 has been released.

The dedicated UV unwrapping application has included many new features and bugfixes.

3dup.com have recently put up a hyper real movie short created by Alex Roman.

The HD movie was created in Max and rendered within VRay and shows a perfect example of photo-realistic work.

Pixologic has released a detailed overview on the best practices to use when sculpting in HD mode, whilst using Zbrush.

FurryBall is a realtime GPU based renderer for Maya that is currently in Beta.

The fully integrated GPU based solution promises upto a 200% improvement in render times with production quality results.

Sjoerd "Hourences" De Jong, of The Ball fame, has released an illuminating tutorial on using the new UDK Lightmass global illumination feature within Unreal Engine 3, which he has published on his website

The tutorial explains how to illuminate a world with the new UDK feature and goes over such topics as lightmass importance volumes, light emitting objects and advanced Lightmass properties.

Chris Tate has created a tutorial for CGTuts+ that goes through creating a roof hatch in Max.

The tutorial give step by step instruction on creating the roof hatch and contains a whole host of valuable techniques which are sure to be of great use to any 3d student or hardsurface modeling lover.

e-onsoftware have announced that Vue 8 Studio and Esprit have now been released for public  consumption.

The entry level versions of the industry standard natural environment creation software can now be purchased from e-on for $199-$399.

Every now and again a really useful plugin comes along and you wish that you had thought of it first.

Enter Wrapit 1.0,

The Plugin, which is currently in Beta, automatically wraps a selected mesh around a target object and conforms to its shape...for something like re-topology this could be a real time saver!