Spill.com Transformers 3 review

Those guys have hit it, exactly! "Some `ol bullshit" :)) Loved their ideas of chinese take-away stand transformer, mexican mowing machine and cashier box transformer!! You have to see it. Plus Michael Bay behind camera turned on shooting Rosie H-Whiteley (only caricature!)
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btw. THOR got Full Price, which I think it really deserves. Quite underestimated movie which surprised by how well the comic book was converted into film (trailer).

Digital Domain CG feature

Digital Domain reveal info on their first CG feature project:


http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/digital-domain-reveals-first-animated-feature.html

Maya 2011 bug fixes

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/maya2011fixedcustomerissues.pdf

Disney elastic collision skin deformer

This is simply awesome. Volume preservation and collisions, even with built in dynamics. And I guess not too difficult to setup. An algorithm developped by Disney in collaboration with two universities.

Which editor for Python programming?

Here is quite exhaustive discussion about best editors for makig python scripts:
linkedIn_discussion

My favourite is Eclipse Juno with PyDev extension. It makes programming in python really fast and also has either SVN or GIT versioning support if you have a repository.