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Di-O-Matic is a software development company based in Canada specializing in character animation software and plug-ins for 3D artists and production studios all over the world. Their solutions cover plugins for the most popular 3D applications such as 3ds max, maya and softimage together with famous standalone software Facial Studio, LipSync MX and Maskarad. About this and a lot more you can read in our interview with LaurentM. Abecassis, President and founder of Di-O-Matic. If you are curious where Di-O-Matic products were used, check the gallery at the bottom of the interview with a small showcase where you could see their products in use.

In this interview we were asking questions the founder of Evermotion, Krzysztof M. Kundzicz. The questions were pointed on the group, they products but also on the future of this fabulous group of CG artists. Evermotion was founded in 1998 in the Polish city of Bialystok. From that time the portal unites CG fans and Professionals and become one of the largest CG resource sites in the world. They are well known for their high quality models from the Archmodels series where they already broke the release of more than one hundred different packs. Moreover Evermotion started the developing of their renderer with the name NOX render and recently started a new website “http://evervfx.com” with a showcase of services which they can provide.

CGArena published the first issue of their CG magazine in this year covering April – May 2012. As usually the magazine is full of interesting articles covering the CG industry, interesting Making Of in Cinema 4D and ZBrush, tutorials and advices to the users. On 73 pages you will find interview with David Lesperance, a Senior Environment Artist in Microsoft at 343 Industries where he is talking about his 3D workflow such as his work as VFX supervisor. The magazine is free of charge and you can download it from the link below after you register to CG Arena.

CGarchitect.com is hosting the 9th annual Architectural 3D Awards. The competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery, animations and real-time projects done in 2011/2012. This year's awards will be divided into five categories: Image (Commissioned), Image (Non-Commissioned), and Film/Animation (Commissioned), Film/Animation (Non-Commissioned) and Real-Time. From the submitted entries a panel of expert judges will select the top five nominees in each category. The winner of each category will be awarded the exclusive CGarchitect.com 3D AWARDS trophy during the Mundos Digitales Conference.