NEWS ARCHIVE
 
Previous updates to VR Boboland and other old news. For latest news, go here.
 
2007
2007/09/06: StudioDaily.com posted three Camtasia tutorials recorder by Bobo on the day before Siggraph 2007 Expo opened its doors.
2007/09/03: Frantic Films Software added two new pages to the Krakatoa documentation:
2007/08/31: Frantic Films Software added 3 new advanced tutorials to the Tips and Ticks section of the documentation dealing with controlling Particle Color and Density using Particle Flow Tools Box #3 or Scripted Operators (written by Bobo):
2007/08/13: Frantic Films Software releases Krakatoa for 3ds Max version 1.0.1.29090 including new features and minor bug fixes.
2007/08/5-8: Frantic Films Software demonstrates Krakatoa for 3ds Max at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego.
2007/07/31: Frantic Films Software Releases Krakatoa for 3ds Max version 1.0.0.29022
2007/06/6: Autodesk SIGGRAPH Master Classes announced. Yours truly will be talking about "The Quest For The Make Art Button".
 
2007/06/6: CG Workshop MAXScript Fundamentals 2 announced, led by Michele Bousquet and assisted by Bobo.
 
2007/04/21: Beta Version of the completely rewritten DIMaster 2.0 toolset for architectural and technical dimensioning available for free.
 
Links Of Interest
Ongoing KRAKATOA Volumetric Particle Renderer discussion on CGTalk.
2007/04/07: Early Preview of the completely rewritten DIMaster 2.0 toolset for architectural and technical dimensioning.
 
2007/01/24: Frantic Films made the cover of Winnipeg Free Press for working on two of the three Oscar nominated movies for Visual Effects. Story here.
 
2006
2006/12/19: CGSociety announced the MAXScript Fundamentals CG Workshop starting January 29th 2007, taught by Michele Bousquet and featuring Bobo.
 
2006/12/03: The Autodesk 3December Event page has a video of the full Masters award ceremony from Siggraph 2006.
2006/12/03: The Autodesk 3December Event page has a rather long interview with Yours Truly after the Masters Award ceremony among other visitor's voices.
 
2006/12/03: After 11 years online, I decided it is time for a partial website facelift using frames and a slightly darker color scheme.
 
2006/11/25: Added new How To ... Fit UVW Mapping Gizmo page to the 3ds Max 9 section. Code works in ALL 3ds Max versions.
Added new MAXScript for 3ds Max 9 section to the MAXSCRIPT ZONE below.
Added a link to the new Work In Progress DotNet Reference.

 
The AREA, Autodesk's new community site, posted an interview with Yours Truly about Life, the Universe, and everything.

 
At the Autodesk User Group event on July 31st in Boston, Bobo was awarded one of the three 3ds Max MASTER awards.
A BIG THANKS to each and everyone of you who voted on the Autodesk site last month!

You can get a glimpse at the celebrations on CG Cociety's website.

 

Superman ReturnsSuperman Returns to cinemas across North America on Wednesday, June 28th
(go see what I have been working on in the last 18 months!)

 

Frantic Films article in Winnipeg Free Press, June 24th

 
Autodesk has finally released the DVD from last year's Siggraph Master Class entitled
"MAXScript Secrets Revealed".
It covers among other things the drawing and display of data in the viewports,
the development of a simple fragmentation script, mesh-based collision detection
and procedural particle generation from colliding objects.

You can buy it here.

 
Scriptspot.com has a new interview with CG-Academy and Yours Truly about the making of "The Matrix: Explained" DVD!

You can read it here.

 

 

 

Good News Everyone!

Bobo's new Advanced MAXScript DVD entitled
"The Matrix: Explained"
was officially released by CG-Academy on March 8th, 2006.
You can see details about the content and order the DVD here.

You can still order my previous Intermediate-level DVD MAXScript For The Masses from the CG Academy's web store, or the boxed set with the Introduction To MAXScript DVD by my good friend and colleague Laszlo Sebo.

 
CG Cannel has an Interview with Kevin Tod Haug, Visual Effects Supervisor on the movie "Stay".
While not mentioned by name, Bobo was involved in the integration of Dr. Baily's Spore with 3ds Max and was responsible for automating and managing the rendering of the billions of particles per frame.