Category Archives: Spotted in the News

Steampunk magazine now has a new section devoted to art, which some readers here may be interested in. Judging by the editor’s existing taste, I’d say straight bald 3D renders might not make the cut. They’d probably need to be over-painted or tooned, or heavily Photoshopped.

Daz/Poser toon specialists 3D Universe have given their website a makeover. It looks as though it’s configured for an iPad now…

Some bits and bobs appear to have been lost in the move, like the free Mimic files for Noodle the Cat. Plus, their webmaster broke all their inbound product Web links with a new page URL system — and is wasting all that prior traffic by just serving up a “404 not found” notice for the broken links.

The official Renderosity annual user survey is underway. There’s one version for content vendors, and one for buyers.

Interesting consumer news from Europe…

“Users of digitally downloaded software can sell it on secondhand, providing they deactivate or delete the original copy from their hard drive, the European Court of Justice has ruled.”

“The ECJ said that software owners exhaust their rights to control the sale of their copyrighted products when they first sell them within the EU, regardless of whether the sale concerns a physical product or one downloaded from the internet.”

This presumably includes DAZ Studio or Poser content models. Tired of that cute “Fluffy the Cat” character? Burn it to a DVD, uninstall it, and it seems you can now legally sell the DVD. Only the one time, though. This legal ruling (by the EU equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court) would seemingly also allow a relative to legally ‘gift’ or ‘bequeath’ their entire 3D content and software collection to their relatives, on their death.

Templum is a new digital arts magazine, now inviting submissions for the second issue. Quite painter-y, but probably open to those who overpaint their DAZ Studio and Poser renders.