Our techies have been at it again, you can now download the new Learn 3D Application Form, complete it and e-mail it right back to us.

The new form allows you to indicate your preferred interview date, as well as save all your information within the PDF itself.

Just remember, you need to e-mail us the completed application form (either using the button inside the PDF or manually attaching the completed form to an e-mail)

Once we have confirmed your interview date, remember to check out the requirements at the top right of the form when you come through for your interview.

Download the new form HERE!

Learn 3D is proud to announce the Learn 3D "Home Grown" games competition. All you have to do is download the awesome games* created by our super students, practice and then vote for your favourite on The Verge's Facebook page for your favourite game.

There are some awesome prizes like a Sony PSP, games and look 'n Listen Vouchers up for grabs!!

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Learn 3D will be giving free 2D illustration classes (4 students per class, no previous experience needed) at our stand during rAge 2011, but people will need to book in advance through our website for them.

Click here to learn more

Chris, Garth, Gustavo and Cobus survived more than 54 hours flying there and back to attend this year’s Siggraph in Vancouver, Canada.

Gustavo actually celebrated his birthday landing in two countries and three different cities on that day!!

Besides attending software presentations, checking out company exhibition booths and watching the latest and greatest in computer animation, Cobus also successfully completed his Autodesk Instructor Certification workshop, joining our growing family of internationally accredited instructors.

Here are some of their snapshots!

Our very own Kim Bussiahn became this July the first South African accredited Toon Boom trainer after successfully completing an advanced Harmony course in Montreal, Canada, at the Toon Boom head office.

She also had the opportunity of experiencing first hand a world-class production facility when she visited Oasis Studios. Check out the photos from her trip!

Check us out at the Dome, this time at the Mediatech Africa Advanced Technology Trade Fair on July 20 to 22.

Following the success of the previous years, the biennial trade exhibition will again showcase cutting edge technologies and services from industry leaders in:

• Broadcast, Film, Production & Post Production
  
• Animation, New Media, Mobile & On-line
  
• Musical Instruments & DJ Equipment
  
• Computer Music and Production Tools

See you there!

The organizers of rAge have confirmed dates for the next expo: September 30 to October 02.
And Learn 3D will be there again!!

Come along and visit us on Stand 23

Keeping the tradition of the past 10 years, we had another awesome end of the year party with the students.

Between Paintball and off-road Go Karting, we had all an awesome time celebrating the end of another term at
Learn 3D, while cementing friendships built during the year.

Chaos Group has just made an official announcement about the long awaited V-Ray 2.0. Starting on November 1, 2010, you will be able to upgrade your existing copy of V-Ray for 3ds Max 1.5 or Pre-Order a new copy.

V-Ray 2.0 will include three products in one: V-Ray for 3ds Max + V-Ray RT on CPU + V-Ray RT on GPU. V-Ray RT GPU is fully integrated within Autodesk 3ds Max and allows up to 30 times faster rendering and real time interaction with the virtual environment. This highly scalable rendering solution offers a number of new features like real time shading and lights set-up, distributed and cross platform rendering, progressive path tracing and many others.

The release date is scheduled to be
6th Dec 2010.

For the 5th consecutive year Learn 3D will have a stand at the rAge expo , happening at the
Coca-Cola Dome on 1 / 2 / 3 October.

If you want to have a taste of what 3D animation is, come visit our stand where we will be giving short lessons on 3ds Max and Maya for free!

View pics of last year's rAge to the left.

See you there!!

rAge is South Africa’s leading powerhouse computer, gaming and technology expo. This annual event brings together the most popular and cutting-edge games, technology, gadgets and gaming-related products under one roof. The expo allows visitors to get some hands-on time with, and a close-up look at the things they love and desire most.

This year's Siggraph was held in Los Angeles, California. Gustavo was able to attend it once more, where besides networking with other people from Autodesk and the animation industry he leaded an instructor certification workshop as an Autodesk Certified Evaluator.

Click here to check out what happened at this year's siggraph.

nVidia announces the new Quadro family of 3D Accelerated Graphics Cards
27 July 2010

NVIDIA® today launched the era of the ‘computational visualization workstation’ for designers, engineers, researchers and animators by introducing its Quadro® graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the Fermi architecture, and the new NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro solution. The new Quadro GPUs deliver performance that is up to five times faster for 3D applications and up to eight times faster for computational simulation1, shattering previous graphics benchmarks.

Paramount Pictures' latest film, "The Last Airbender," features extraordinary battle visual effects created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), with the help of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics technology.

For more information check out:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-fermi-home.html

Tedi Kirova and Rusko Ruskov, from the Chaos Group team, made their first South Africa Tour to present the latest on V-Ray and the new additions for 2010. Local V-Ray users had the opportunity to enjoy a presentation on the latest of V-Ray for 3ds Max and Maya, Pdplayer as well as the upcoming V-Ray RT for Maya and the new fluid dynamics system Phoenix FD.

Learn 3D also hosted an advanced V-Ray training for 3ds Max, given by Rusko to a full class.