yet, virtually fascinating...

delusion, deception, disappointment...

Hồ Chí Minh / Dạy 3Dmax ở HCM

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Hitman Absolution Characters Part 1.

"After I finished working on Hitman Blood Money back in 2006, I started working as Lead Character Artist on Hitman Absolution. I worked with the talented programmers at IO Interactive to develop the entire production pipeline for characters and created 100s of characters for the game. The work displayed here is just a small part of the work I did for IO Interactive between 2006 and 2011."

"Images rendered in 3ds Max using Mental Ray and V-ray."

Full article:  Hitman Absolution Characters Part 1.

by TOM ISAKSEN

Virtual survival

James, a young Briton of twenty years, was diagnosed with cancer of the liver. Having only a few months to live, he contacted a charity, the Willow Foundation, which enabled him to achieve his greatest dream: meet the developers of the video game series favorite Total War.

 During his visit to the studio Horsay (Sussex), last July, James was able to discover the exclusive brand new installment of the series: Rome II. "James came to see us the day after the announcement of the development of Rome II," says community manager of Creative Assembly studio on his blog. "We let him play the mission" The Siege of Carthage '. 
In fact, James was the first person in the world to have played in Rome II. "

Moved by the passion of the player to the saga of Total War, and his joy behind the scenes of its development, one of the creators of the game people proposed the model of James. "It took several pictures and measurements of the young man. This allowed him to create an absolutely amazing representation of James, which will appear in the final version of Rome II.

What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games | Smashing Magazine

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"Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like. If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and credibility points are given to the winner. It’s a ranking system that accumulates and unlocks more and more features within the system. It works because of the psychology of achievement and game mechanics and thus encourages interaction. This raises the question, what can a Web designer learn from games, or — more specifically — video games?"

In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you start out in prison and must escape through an underground cave, fighting rats and the occasional small goblin along the way to learn the basic controls of the game.

Most Insane Immersive Movie Experience ever, Part 1

How to play and help science

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Des joueurs en ligne résolvent une des énigmes du sida: lefigaro.fr

Game business is taking over (as expected)

Global games business to hit $112B by 2015

Spending on video games around the globe will grow from $74 billion in 2011 to $112 billion by 2015, according to market researcher Gartner.

In 2011, Gartner estimates that spending will be up 10.4 percent compared to $67 billion in 2010. That represents a healthy level of growth, despite the fact that some of the traditional categories of games, such as consoles, have seen slower growth recently...

Read more: venturebeat.com

‪Head tracking‬‏

Head tracking in Half-Life 2 (FaceOff Paintball v2)

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Panoramic gaming

Because one screen is never enough! We set our sights on finding the best multiscreen setup for gaming.

 Samsung’s MD230X6 brings a whopping 5760x2160 resolution to the table.

Full Article:

Multiscreen Madness: We Test Four Incredible Display Setups

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Here he comes! stop drooling..

Duke Nukem Forever Extended Gameplay Footage

"We've added additional footage to this video shoot. At PAX East, though slightly forbidden, we were able to steal some video footage of the infamous and forever anticipated Duke Nukem Forever. Finally set to release in May 2011, this is early in-game footage of actual game play." HotHardwareVids hothardware.com

Leaked In-Game Footage: Duke Nukem Forever

"This morning at the PAX East show in Boston, MA -- though slightly forbidden, we were able to steal some video footage of the infamous and forever anticipated Duke Nukem Forever. Finally set to release in May 2011, the folllowing is early in-game footage of actual game play. Ready to kick ass and chew bubblegum ("and yeah, he's all outta gum"), Duke is actually looking pretty slick and the baddies, well, they're looking bad, as you'd expect..."hothardware.com


3D TODAY: (Saturday, January 22, 2011)

He is back!!!

Duke Nukem Forever Reveal Trailer 

CryEngine 3 GDC 11 | All in one imaging techniques

3D games, Movies, digital special effects, synthetic imaging, all are merging progressively in one global technique...

CryEngine 3 GDC 11: Exclusive Tech Showcase HD

Interesting Links:

crymod.com

You guys must have seen it by now? The new Sandbox for CINEMA. 

If not then have a look here : gametrailers.com

Getting closer to realism L.A. Noire

Getting closer to realism...Of course the characters' movements are still suffering from "string puppets" effects. But the expressions are quite strong. It seems that soon, games will feature a perfect definition. Then what will the films become? Obsolete since they cannot allow interactivity.

Watch it right now above and in high-definition at the official L.A. Noire website or at RockstarGames.com. 

 rockstargames.com/lanoire

He is back!!!

Duke Nukem Forever Reveal Trailer

Creative Gaming Kinect Hacks

Skeleton Calibration Pose

Call of Duty FPS on Kinect Hack with Wiimote

This Hack uses FAAST, OpenNi/Nite and GlovePIE to bring COD to Kinect, WiiMote and Windows 7.

Doom on Kinect Hack

Legend Of Zelda on Kinect Hack

LOL L4D mod

 Zombies replaced with teletubbies (at last!)

The movie Industry is Ready to Clone the Deads

George Lucas

George Lucas Plans to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars

According to Mel Smith—friend of George Lucas and director of Radioland Murders—the creator of Star Wars is "buying up the film rights to dead actors." He says that Lucas plans to resurrect them in future movies using 3D technology:

"..George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today's stars."

gizmodo.com

George Lucas wants to resurrect the dead?

According to comedy legend Mel Smith, George Lucas wants to round up a bunch of dead actors and resurrect them onscreen.

 ”...George is obsessed with [CGI] [...] He’s been buying up the film rights to dead movie stars in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside today’s stars...”

thehollywoodnews.com

Games You Ough To Know

Top 20 PC Games that You Should Play Before You Die gamingbolt.com   (http://bit.ly/eLoMnV)

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3D Technologies R&D us Leica and modo to scan and model the Piusa Caves | SolidSmack.com

Scanning the cavern with the Leica HDS 3000 laser scanner.

"After you shut down a dangerous cave system to allow a hibernating bat population to thrive, there’s only one thing left to do… scan it with lasers..."Josh

"The caves are presented as interactive real-time 3D model where visitors can hover around using 32“ touchscreen. Cave walls, sandstone colours and minor details such as inscriptions on the sand wall made by the past visitors are observable in the computer model. Visitors can read additional information about the caverns and can take virtual tour inside the caves."

Check this very interesting site out!

3solidsmack.com