For a limited time, anyone who registers interest with Hyperfocal’s VM store and purchases one or more copies of Maxwell 1.0 from us will receive either a free iPod or VisMasters Points that can be redeemed for anything in our store! If you’re not up to speed on Maxwell, check out the …

Hyperfocal Skies 2 features 51 photographic, hemispherical sky textures averaging 12000X4000 pixels. No 180 degree panoramas or single row panoramas, just full hemispherical sky textures with enough resolution to allow completely unrestricted camera movement in all directions. Our sky textures include a wide range of times of day and weather conditions to suit …

arstechnica has a great article on Valve’s HDRI technology, including word on DoD, Lost Coast and Valve’s “road to HDR”.

VisMasters currently hosts an online gallery, “Image of the Week” email, online forum community, and store containing the best products in the design visualization industry. Complimentary Content Channels hosted by VisMasters provide textures free of charge, delivered automatically every business day. VisMasters solutions provide everything the design visualization professional needs in one convenient location. VisMasters brings …

Ed Harris has a write up on the new features in Softimage XSI 5.0

CGSociety has a great feature on Yafka Studio, where they outline their usage of Hyperfocal’s HDRIs, among other things. Yafka CGSociety Article

First: LDRI To easily explain what HDRI is, we can compare it to an every day LDRI (low dynamic range image). LDR images are what we use commonly for photographs, the web, in print, 3d graphics, and on TV. As their name describes, they have a low dynamic range, which …

Battlefield 2 is an online multiplayer game developed by Digital Illusions and published by EA for the PC. Digital Illusions used a range of sky textures from both the original Skies collection and the new Skies 2 collection. The developers have taken each sky texture and modified it to work …

This is a somewhat old article now, although the information is accurate and provides a valuable comparison of HDR vs LDR in games. For the current state of HDR in Valve’s games, look at this wiki. While this latest iteration of Day of Defeat is now graphically up to scratch …

*this is quite an old article now! The AHDRIA links are down/broken, I assume due to software like DSLR Remote and other similar, user friendly options becoming available.   An interview with Sean O’Malley By Jay Weston Can you introduce yourself to our readers? As for my background, I have …