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Digital-Tutors Releases Complete Guide to Animating Cartoon Characters in Maya® 
New training provides artists with an advanced guide to creating cartoon character animations and learning time-saving animation techniques in Maya.

BALLISTIC PUBLISHING ANNOUNCES - EXPOSÉ 6 
THE FINEST INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF DIGITAL ART

DAZ 3Ds Hexagon 2.5 Delivers Enhanced Toolset for Detailed 3D Content Creation 
Powerful 3D Modeling Software Offers New Features for Artist-Friendly Customization; Includes Additional Export Feature for Second Life

Allegorithmics ProFX and MaPZone Selected by WhiteMoon Dreams for Next-Generation Games Pipeline 
Procedural Authoring Tools Save Time with Unique Approach; MaPZone and ProFX Chosen to Develop Upcoming XBLA Games

NVIDIA and CGSociety Announce Winners of NVArt Architecture and Landscape Digital Art Challenge 
Award Winners to be Displayed at NVISION 08 in August in San Jose, California

Luxology Sponsors International Furniture Design Competition with Skuuma  
Contestants Are Invited to Develop Original Creations; Contest Runs Through Late July

Hollywood veterans build digital-age studio 
Building a new kind of studio that taps into an aspiring community of moviemakers on the Web to cultivate the next great talents.

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Creative 3D Books
Modeling Digital Dinosaurs
by Ken Brilliant
The book is not software specific and Ken gives a list of software that can be used in conjunction with the tutorials and these include Lightwave, Maya, C4D, Amapi, 3DSmax etc.
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Digital Beauties
by Julius Wiedemann
I have to say that on more than one occasion I have been heard to say `wouldn't it be nice if one day someone put all these images from renderosity into a book it would sell a million`. Well, Taschen got someone to do it, or at least something very similar.
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Inside Lightwave 7
by Dan Ablan
Dan Ablan pulled out all of the stops and made an excellent book better. He went beyond a simple rewrite of his previous book in that he invited some outstanding and well-known Lightwave artists to co-author and contribute entire chapters to this book and thus presents the reader with an even more interesting and valuable learning experience.
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Lightwave 6.5 Magic
by Dan Ablan
Dan Ablan's Lightwave 6.5 Magic will be a useful addition to any LW-related user library. The book supports existing texts and documentation, but it is not one from which to learn Lightwave per se.
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3D Graphics Tutorial Collection
Editted by Shamms Mortier
By gathering twenty of the top authors in the domain, Shamms Mortier was able to put together a good all-around collection of tutorials.
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Inside LightWave 6
by Dan Ablan
This book is definetly in invaluable addition to any Lightwave users reference library. The combination of Dan Ablans considerable talent with New Riders flawless publishing results in a no brainer recommendation to buy this book! .. full review
 
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