Mari is The Foundry’s new 3d paint and texture tool. Originally developed by Weta’s R&D department, It was used during the production of Avatar, King Kong and Lord of The Rings. This 3d texturing program can handle 32K textures without slowing down and will soon be available with a price tag of $750.

Mari Painting dinosaur textures

Mari 32K textures Terminator

Mari 4K animated textures on an anvil model

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The folks at editshare have recently acquired the non-linear editor Lightworks and are in the process of releasing it as opensource download, you can sign up for it at this location

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Fans of Cloverfield got to see the trailer for the new JJ Abrams movie, “Super 8″, during the screening of Iron Man 2. Luckily, for those who have not yet seen Iron Man, you can now watch a bootleg of the teaser on youtube:

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