Back to work goodies

Emil Mujanovic

Hopefully you all had a great and productive weekend, but it's back to work and back to being a grown up. But to make that seem less sucky we have some goodies for you.

• Over 100 free hi-res female ref images
• 3D Video capture with Kinect
• Holographic sheets.

More after the jump.

 

 

CGChannel

So your next model is a female, but looking for reference images just yields a lot of porn (I'm sure some of you don't mind). Well how would you like over 100 hi-res female reference images for free? Yes, for free!

I caught this over CGChannel and I thought I'd share it with the rest of you.

All you need is a facebook account, head over to the Ten24 facebook page, 'like' the profile, then go to the Free Downloads tab, and it's all yours!

 

YouTube

If you're still undecided about the whole Microsoft Kinect, check out this cool video showing off some of the different tech capabilities the Kinect can be used for.

Sure it's a little ghetto, but if you had two of more of those devices, you could get some pretty rad results.

Props to gauss for posting this on facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A

 

 

Finally, here's a quick video from Zebra Imaging showing off their 3D Holographic product. This isn't exactly new tech, as I remember having basketball cards with 3D holographic display. However, the concept has been refined and the end result gives you a much clearer image and a wider range of view.

This opens up a whole range of applications and it just simply looks cool.

Thanks to PatrickL for this video (originally posted here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp7BP00LuA4

 

 

Related Links:

• CGChannel: 100 free female reference images
• Ten24 facebook page
• YouTube: 3D Video Capture
• YouTube: Zebra Imaging Holographic Sheets

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fearian

Do I smell a cheap 3d scanner?! :P Would be nice to scan in an object and use it as a guide when starting a model. You could quickly mash something out of playdough, scan it, bring it into max and model over it.

Froyok

A facebook account to get free images ?
Sorry, without me... :

VidGameDude

^---same...i got to much pride to use facebook in order for images of 3D practice |=P

Habboi

Very kind of them to give away all those female images. We all have to help each other out

jimmypopali

Both videos are great.

dregoloth

the images might be useful, but I'm not subjecting myself to facebook to get them.

Muzzoid

I dont wanna be all grow'd up and working... I want to play in the sandbox making sand fortresses again dammit!

Purplepaint

oh god stop tempting me to spend moneys on teh kinects!

adam

haha @ facebook, the evil empire

mparis

Facebook is virtually painless, minus the giant metal jack they stick into the back of your head.

dpixeel

Not necessary to use facebook to get free female reference images. All you need just go to their web site and join their mailing list and confirm the email then you are free to go.

Dim

Saw those holographic plates displayed and the Montreal International Game Summit this year and they were pretty cool. The limited field of view was a little obnoxious though...I suppose my expectations were a little too high, it's still really cool.