How to Use Vray for Sketchup to create an Animation

Below is a great video tutorial on how to use vray for sketchup to create a fly thru animation:

For more video tutorial from Azri3d checkout her Youtube channel

Book: 100 ways to Photography - The Expert Advice

100 ways to Photography - The Expert Advice is a new book by Choo Meng Foo. The book is about photography and reveals 100 ways to capture and explore those amazing moments. Its about exploring beyond the limits of the camera, touching on increasing the photographers' sensibilities, courage and humility. A book for those who want to go beyond the technical and technique. Learn and understand the relationship between you and your camera.

Here is a video by the author revealing more about the book:

To Purchase the book visit lulu.com
and to download the Preview Book Click HERE. You can also purchase the book through Blurb or
now available in Amazon.

About the Author: Choo Meng Foo

Choo Meng Foo has been a photographer since he was fifteen years old. At sixteen, he won an overall best print (student section) for Asian Salon competition and his work got exhibited in the National Musuem, National University of Singapore and abroad. He went on to shoot for Tennis and Squash circles. Most recently his work was featured in Aisan Geographic Magazine, Silverlining, Wave, and One. his subject interest includes theatrical performance, portraiture, cityscape and anthropods. He has also given seminars and workshops on photography and digital post processing techniques.

Vist Choo Meng Foo's Flickr and Profile for further information.

RenderWeb | render animations directly within Facebook

RenderWeb is a new platform that allows friends and communities to share
computational resources to render animations directly within Facebook. Once the
projects are rendered, the animations are available for the entire community to
watch and tag.

Click HERE to Read More

HOW TO: Combine Facebook and Twitter for Live Chat

There aren’t a lot of solutions that connect Facebook friends to Twitter followers. In general, these two groups are separate, but there a lot times where we want to bring them together – i.e. to chat about a new business idea. When you have a group, you want to create a chat, but getting people from both sides together (and spreading the word about it) isn’t easy.

Enter SavorChat. Created by Marc Stedman (a co-founder of Savor the Success), the new social media discussion tool is the one of the most elegant group chat solutions we’ve ever come across. Its selling point? Facebook () friends and Twitter () followers can chat with each other seamlessly. Try it out for yourself in Mashable’s SavorChat.

First, its core feature: you can log into the chat either via Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth. This simple and elegant solution works almost seamlessly. Once you’re logged in, all your chat updates will have your profile picture and an icon indicating whether you came from twitter or Facebook. Clicking on the picture takes you to a person’s profile page.

As a room creator, you have a lot of control over the room’s feel. Primarily, you can set set a chat duration and, best of all, you can set a Twitter hashtag that will be tweeted out anytime someone tweets fro mthe room. You can choose to send any of your chat updates via the microblogging tool by clicking a simple checkbox.

We’re fans of anything that better connects people across the web. Alone, the chat interface is great, but its integration with both Twitter and Facebook gives it a personal feel and make it accessible to practically everyone on the web. Now when you want to chat with Facebook and Twitter friends, you’ll have a quick and easy solution.

Via Mashable