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Topic of this competition is to create an image related to this theme. It doesn`t matter if will be person diving under water or divers examining the cave. It must be created with Blender. You may use any external renderer you wish. Photographic elements are allowed, but must not be a central part of the image (eg. sky backgrounds are okay) and etc. For all condition follow the link at the end of the article. Prize for winner is Any item from the Blender e-Shop + $500 donated to a charity of your choice + a permanent spot in Winners Hall of Fame. 

Goal of this contest is to showcase CityLIFE in two different seasons – Summer, Autumn, Winter or Spring. You can join in three different categories, Still image, Concept art and Real Time. The entries will be judged according to overall accepted standards of architectural visualization: composition; 3d modeling; lighting; materials and textures, concept (original approach), addressing the architectural interpretation of the city, technical skill, emotive value and participation in WIP threads.

Portal 3Dtotal released a book in to the series The Digital Art Master: Volume 5. This is the fifth book in the series and it’s featuring articles and work from 60 talented artists working in the Computer Graphic industry. This is common knowledge for everyone from CG world. But now3D Total is giving away a sample chapter of six pages from the book and you can download it, for FREE!

ClockStone® FBX Viewer is a free* software tool to view numerous different 3D file types as used by Autodesk® 3ds Max, Maya, AutoCAD and others: FBX, 3DS, DXF, DAE (Collada), OBJ. The viewer is based on ClockStone's DirectX 11 engine and supports a large number of advanced real-time features, such as rendering coloured soft shadows for any type of light source, applying post-process filters, etc. If you want to download it or see all features, please follow the link at the end of article.