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3D Movie Posters

A whole new era in print media advertising is fast approaching - the advent of 3D movie posters is now! The claim is that these next-gen 3d movie posters are more advanced than the lenticular movie posters that movies such as Spiderman 3 (featured here) and The Chronicles of Narnia have used.

The lenticular movie posters appear animated and 3 dimensional when you look at the poster from different angles. With the new 3D movie poster, the images seem to 'pop out' at you. The company responsible for this is XYZ RGB, and through XYZ Imaging, characters and objects are brought to life!

The poster of the Terminator character you see above was presented to Terminator 2 director, James Cameron to which it was met with much amazement and awe.

Just a note about lenticular movie posters - although they are highly attnention grabbing, film studios do not create lenticulars very often. This is because they are more expensive to produce, they require (for best results) being backlighting , and most importantly, smaller details (such as text) are more difficult to read.

Let's just hope that those factors don't stop too many studios producing these cutting edge 3D posters!

-Dan

Gogofrog.com new promo

Another funny promo for Gogofrog.com

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A new cute mini promo for Gogofrog.com

Have Yourself a 3D Desktop

2 words: Xgl and Compiz.

Xgl is a hardware accellerated X server created by Novell. Compiz is the first compositing Windows manager. These power tools combined enable the 3D Desktop. (Unfortunately for those of us using windows, this software is only available on Linux.)

Some effects you can create with the Xgl/Compiz combo are:

Scale function:

The scale function allows you to see all the screens you have open, except for when it's minimised, in which you would use the traditional Alt-Tab function.

 

The Cube:

This function enables you to treat the desktop as a cube where each side is a virtual desktop. This makes it easier to remember which application is located on which virtual desktop and it helps to organise the running applications better.

Check out this website for installation details:

http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/xglcompiz-in-mandriva-2007-free/

Check out this cool feature below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTx9RdeJGaU&eurl=

 

Animoids 3D Movie Maker

Animoids is a program that enables you to build and animate your own 3D models. You can teach them behaviours so that they can act out a 3D movie scene which can be viewed in QuickTime, AVI or Animated GIF format.

Integrated with an online database of 3D art with hundreds of free downloadable sounds, textures, models, behaviours, movie sets and movie scenes, you'll be your own Steven Spielberg of the 3D world!

You can easily cut and paste between models, use tools to stretch, shape, colour, or texture your models, or edit individual node points to get down into the nitty gritty of things (if you have the eye for details).

Download this exciting program here.

-Dan