CGToolbar, an extremely useful and must have tool for CG Artists, Animators, VFX and 3d professionals get Extreme makeover. Its now loaded with fresh Icons and few new'n'useful link has been loaded including the latest online CG portal "AREA" by AutoDesk

Di-O-Matic, a leading developer of character animations software, announced today the official release of LipSync MX v2, the newest version of the award winning lip synchronization assistant software. LipSync MX takes a single audio file and turns character drawings into talking character animations. The software analyzes the audio file and automatically animates the character in almost any language, including English, French, Japanese and German. LipSync MX is essential for Flash animators and web designers who wish to speed up their production and create quality lip synchronization animations

Luxology LLC announced that Massive Entertainment, a studio in Vivendi Games' Sierra Entertainment division, is using modo for "World in Conflict" the upcoming Cold War strategy game for the PC due in spring 2007. modo's flexible user interface and powerful UV tools dramatically increased the Swedish developer's production of detailed realistic models and was used to produce more than 90 percent of the title's in-game models.

Friends at 3Dm3 just posted a great making of the Mayback car modeling texturing and rendering done by Ali Ismail.

Artbeats announced its participation in the Avid 2006 Back to School Industry All-Access campaign. All qualified students who purchase Avid Xpress Pro Academic,SOFTIMAGE|XSI Academic, or Pro Tools Academic before Sept. 30, 2006, will receive a 30% discount on any Artbeats collection priced USD $399 or higher, and a free broadcast quality clip worth USD $199, both of which will be available for immediate download from Artbeats' website.

Luxology LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, announced today its flagship product modo earned "Best OS X Graphics" at the 11th Annual Apple Design Awards at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) held in San Francisco.

3DM3 reviewed Duber Training DVD's. This is nice modelling and texturing of girl head tutorial.

MAXON proudly announces its second free update for CINEMA 4D this year. Release 9.6 has more than 40 improvements over R9.5. Most of the improvements have been made to OpenGL display speed, compositing functionalities and the Content Browser.