
The voting has opened for the 2011 Autodesk Masters, Autodesk’s annual gongs for exceptional people working with the worlds of 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Mudbox. There are two categories „Autodesk Master“ and from this year also one new category „Junior Master“. Every candidate in Autodesk Master Category has to produce work that reshapes and redefines the boundaries of technology, art, digital entertainment and visualization using Autodesk 3D software. They find new ways of doing things and to see the world through a different lens.


Maxon announced today immediately availability of a new plugin for Adobe® After Effects® CS5 and CS5.5 that allows motion graphics artists to export projects directly into Cinema 4D R13. According to Maxon this new plugin will allow the domination of Cinema 4D’s as the industry-leading 3D motion graphics toolkit with seamless connectivity to popular 2D motion graphics and compositing tools. The export using the new plugin will appear directly inside After Effects® containing 3D layers, cameras, lights, solids, nulls and footage. All major layer attributes are included in the export including animations (rotation, position, parameter, anchor points, POI, etc.).