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Here’s a great video for both Purchasers and Suppliers of 3D content.
For a purchaser, this is a useful guide to the inner workings of a 3D project from start to finish. It’s a good insight into why you can’t change content ad-hoc as a project progresses.
From a suppliers point of view this is [...]

The Tender3D software is almost fully integrated and we will be putting live projects through it over the next week or two to make sure that there are no bugs and to iron out any very obvious errors.
Our team has put a lot of thought and hard work into creating a system uniquely designed to [...]

I’m happy to update that we have finally put together a showreel of some of the suppliers that have signed up for Beta testing when www.tender3d.com goes live next month. We got a great reponse so unfortunately not everyone who sent in material could be included in the showreel. We wanted to keep a balance [...]

I came across this animation today. Starts off as another cutesy French styled animation (even though Blaas is from Spain) but finishes with a disturbing twist for our dainty protaganist. Well worth a look.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Medical device animations are often commissioned during the very early commercialisation stages of a project, perhaps in the latter stages of regulatory approval. It goes without saying that most of these technologies and processes are highly technical. Most modern construction or industrial products are also technical- however it has to be recognised that there is more to it when it comes to depicting life science technologies using 3D animation. It can often be quite simple to create a usable model of the device, which can be surprisingly simple geometrically and often already modelled in 3D. Also- very often the producer will be able to source good quality models of biological objects from stock libraries – although they some customisation will probably be required. The real difficulty and skill is in understanding and accurately depicting exactly how this device will interact with the human body, and how the different biological/ technical processes interact with each other. Content such as this has to be absolutely correct, and getting this right will take a lot of time and know-how.

I stumbled across this animation by Alex Roman on motionogapher the other day and thought it was worth noting. Superlatives don’t really do it justice but sublime/ beautiful/ amazing go some way to describing a piece of 3d animation that is not only technically incredible but also composited with such grace that I found myself [...]

To someone not familiar with CGI/ 3D content then it can be hard wrapping your head around what it is and what way it can help you and your business. CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery and 3D is another description for this. It is in the main the creation of three dimensional images, still [...]

The implications of this are enormous for the 3D industry at large. It means two things, deadlines and margins will become tighter but the volume of work out there is likely to explode in a world dominated by 24 hour news from an almost infinite amount of sources.

I knew renders were going to take a while as we were pushing V-ray to the limit with some of the things we were asking it to do. After struggling for the best part of the week we realised that our own renderfarm wasn’t up to the job of getting the project done in time. Now we could have toned down the settings or tried to hold out hope that we could just about make it but we decided to take a hit in terms of the profitability of the job and outsource the rendering to Dann Stubbs over at RenderKing.com, a small but very dedicated Cinema 4D renderfarm in the states. I am just waiting on the last few renders as I write this.

We’d like to thank you for showing interest and patience while we build what will hopefully be a really great software application that will meet your needs. As is sometimes the case in the world of software development we are a few weeks behind where we would like to be.
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