3dsMaxScript.com

3dsMaxScript.com is a new web site (Turkish) for MAXScript tutorials.

ZBrush 4R2b

Yesterday Pixologic announced ZBrush 4R2b

More details:

the 4R2b features page
the 4R2b tutorial movies
the Z4R2 feature list
video tutorials demonstrating Z4R2's features
artwork created by Z4R2's beta testers

Form for 3ds Max

Form is a new (more human beings) modeling system (similar to zspheres) for 3ds Max by Marius Silaghi. Read more here.

Power ScanToNURBS

nPower Software has released Power ScanToNURBS, a new plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max that imports 3D scans as NURBS-based meshes. Read more.

Miauu's Script Pack

Kostadin Kotev (the author of RTTassist, Miauu's Work Plane, and many other favourite scripts) recently release a set of scripts that automate many common and tedious tasks in 3ds Max.

The Miauu's Script Pack include:

Visual Pivot Placer
In-Volume Scatter
Orbit viewport Around Picked Point
Nested Isolation
Multi Dirs Save
Clone Between
Align Tool

More details available at his web blog.

Using SoX audio utility in 3ds Max

SoX is a cross-platform command-line audio utility (more info, docs, downloads), mostly used for audio file format conversion but it also armed with enough effects for quick composing. SoX is a very welcome tool to all batch script lovers, its free, still in development, and can be used with any program that can dump data to text file.

This blog article show nice introduction on how to use SoX in 3ds Max for quick audio sync composition to our animation, also show how to add some additional audio effects.

A global day of protest against ACTA

February 11 is a global day of protest against ACTA.
Read more here, here, here, ... or just do serach.

Brazil 3.0 development

A good news for all Brazil renderer lovers (like me too), I found at MaxUnderground.

Interesting, I still using Brazil but not remember my last visit of their forum.
Will keep an eye open from now ;)