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Alex Roman has created these inspirational, fully CG architectural visualisation videos, using 3dsmax, Vray, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. Very different from the usual arch viz stuff I see, and come to think of it, very different from the arch viz stuff I make :) I like Alex's approach very much - very cinematic. More info can be found at his website: http://www.thirdseventh.com/ T&S Teaser 1 from Alex Roman on Vimeo . T&S Teaser2 from Alex Roman on Vimeo . T&S Teaser 3 from Alex Roman on Vimeo .

I'm loving this Gran Turismo 5 demo video, the car, the graphics, the camera moves, I like it all. More info and screenshots available at http://www.gtplanet.net

I found out about this great plugin on the official V-ray forum link It's called OceanWaves, and it creates an animated 3D ocean surface for you automatically. You can adjust quite a few parameter - (wave height, choppiness, speed, seed etc. and you can make the animation loopable.) You can even tile the ocean surface! The ocean surface is quite small though (8m x8m), so you have to be creative when tiling it so you don't see the patterns repeating too much. I created this test render with OceanWaves and V-Ray 1.5: Not perfect yet, but I think it has great potential The best part about this plugin though, is that it's free! You can get it at it's creator's site (CharlesHollemeersch) I tested it on 3ds Max 2008, but officially he has versions for Max, Max 9 32 bit and Max 9 64 bit. Try it out for yourself :)