3DS Max 8 Review By VFxWorld ***

3ds Max 8: Addressing 3D Speed/ Performance/ Efficiency Needs

- Ryan Lesser reviews the newest tools available in Autodesks 3ds Max, including pelt mapping, render UVW template functionality, skinning, modeling and animation. Now that Autodesk has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias — its been a long time since I have seen every artist at my company freak out over the same thing — the long-held Max vs. Maya debate is going to take a very weird turn over the next 12 months. Just whats going to happen to the fate of these two packages? Will they eventually merge, even though the two companies swear they won’t? It would seem weird to keep them both alive since they are so similar, but time will tell. In the shadow of this big news, of course, comes the release of 3ds Max 8...........Read Review!!
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Explosions Rocks Capital - New Delhi (OFF Topic)

More than 30 killed in explosions at crowded markets in Capital (off Topic)
Picture by Manish Swarup / AP

- A series of explosions shook New Delhi on Saturday, tearing through markets jammed with shoppers ahead of an upcoming Hindu festival- DIWALI. As many as 20 people have been killed in an explosion in Sarojini Nagar market and 15 others have reportedly been killed in Paharganj.Red alert declared in Delhi following explosions in Paharganj, Sarojini Nagar market and Govindpuri.Most of those injured or killed in the explosions were ordinary people out shopping in the festival season. According to latest reports, RDX was used in the blasts.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a statement from Kolkata said the blasts are a clear case of terrorism.
(Source: Various)