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This offer is primary for talented Terragen 2 artist with experiences or someone with serious interest in gaining such experience. Planetside Software gets requests from people looking for skilled Terragen 2 artists. As an answer on this request they started a Terragen referral program. Idea of this program is creating a referral list, where project manager can looking for candidates and artists can offer their services. 

MakeHuman is a free facial expression system developed under open source. The software is still in development but already the results are impressive and the authors also updated their exporter so it can generate MHX Rigify checked character. For the macro-expressions the developers didn’t used Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System which according do 2 facial actions a "merge" of the muscles that are in both the actions. Instead of this the authors developed a different type of actions that can be summed without problems in generic CG system.

Digital artist magazine has teamed up with Corel to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Painter and the release of the latest version, Painter 12. On this occasion they started a contest, in which is possible win one of five copies of the standard edition or one of five copies of the 20th anniversary limited edition of Corel Painter 12 - complete with a Wacom pen. 

Juraj Molcak was asked by 3DTotal.com to make a „making of“ of his new image called „The Warehouse“ which won an Excellence Award in their Concept Art category. Juraj made this image not for commercial purpose but as a training to practice his skills and used for it Photoshop and Corel Painter. In the making of he describes his first ideas for the image and also his idea to merge a real environment with a digital paining in Photoshop. He took a real image of a warehouse with as he said „industrial environment“ which was fitting to his idea with both lightning and colors. In the making of he describes next his workflow from starting a sketch in Corel Painter.