The giveaway of 3D Covers Pro -fastest way for creating 3D eCovers- which was announced last week has ended today. The winners are selected and announced below.

Here is a short reminder on "what 3D Covers Pro is" in case you missed:

It is an advanced yet easy-to-use set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs quickly.

They are Win + Mac OS X compatible and support creating the following items with each having more than one designs:

• binders (3 designs)
• magazines (10 designs)
• DVDs (7 designs)
• brochures (3 designs)
• books (13 designs)
• spirals (6 designs)
• boxes (15 designs)
• CDs (11 designs)
• business cards (4 designs)

The winners

• k19s (comment #392870)
• Michael Kaiser (comment #392452)
• Niju mohan (comment #393242)

Congratulations and thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.

Whether it is web or print, 3D eCovers are popular design objects for illustrating products with boxes, books/magazines, cds, brochures, etc.

3D Covers Pro is a professional set of Adobe Photoshop action scripts and smart objects for creating such 3D outputs in no time.

And, they are giving away 3 licenses ($37/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers (details can be found below).

The bundle includes Photoshop action scripts (PS CS2+) and smart templates (PS CS4+) that are Win and Mac OS X compatible.

Using them is pretty easy and straightforward. Whether you use the smart templates or the action scripts, just placing our designs and waiting for them to get a nice 3D look is almost enough.

3D Covers Pro works for creating the following items with each having several different designs:

• binders (3 designs)
• magazines (10 designs)
• DVDs (7 designs)
• brochures (3 designs)
• books (13 designs)
• spirals (6 designs)
• boxes (15 designs)
• CDs (11 designs)
• business cards (4 designs)

How to join the giveaway?

Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected with the query below on 14 September 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2451 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all!

rotate3Di is a jQuery plugin that makes it possible to perform an isometric 3D flip or 3D rotation of any HTML content.

The plugin uses CSS3 transforms and also helps creating any custom 3D effects.

There are various options offered like the position of the element in degrees, duration/direction of the animation and callbacks on every level.

CU3OX is a free software (for Windows or Mac OS) that enables you to create beautiful and 3D Flash image sliders.

It has support for multiple transition effects like cubic, bounce or elastic where each of them can be customized with:

• the number of pieces
• tween type
• z-distance
• distance
• time
• delay and more

Besides adding images locally, it can get them from Flickr or PhotoBucket and upload with the built-in FTP engine.

Once creating the slider is completed, the software simply generates the code to be inserted inside the web page.

In order to edit the gallery, it is not required to use CU3OX again, updating XML files will be enough.

The output of the software is very similar to CU3ER, the popular 3D Flash image slider where the main difference is "this being a desktop version".

JpGraph is a feature-rich PHP library for creating good looking charts.

It has support for almost any chart type including bar, line, pie, scatter, radar, field, stock and much more.

Some of the charts have the option to be created in 3D and they are all web-friendly (usually 2-3 kb).

The library is very flexible, any number of plots can be drawn in every chart, objects can be rotated, etc.

JpGraph has built-in images for plot marks including 3D rendered markers like diamonds, squares, bevels, balls and pins.

And, a very original feature, it has a pre-defined function to create flags for 200+ countries.

To sum up, the library is really an impressive one and it is free to be used in non-commercial, open-source or educational projects.

This is a set of 3D social bookmarking icons that are placed over a platform like statuettes.

They come in a pretty big size (435*424px) which can be scaled to a custom size preferred and the format is transparent PNG.

Icons in the set are: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Picasa, RSS, Yahoo and Yelp.

They are free to be used in personal and commercial projects (no backlinks are required).

The only limitation is that they can not be re-distributed. Please mention this URL if you share them on your website, and thanks very much for that.

Piecemaker is a free and open source Flash image slider that displays images with 3D slice effects.

It can be completely configured from a XML file like setting the tween type, distance, time, delay, etc. and doesn't require working with the .FLA source file.

The slider shows images almost instantly due to the external image loading feature and supports JPG, GIF, PNG formats.

Once hovered, it displays prev-next buttons and a play/pause option for easier browsing.

Images are defined inside the XML file and a description text for each of them can be mentioned (including links).

It is also possible to customize the styles of these descriptions via CSS.

Piecemaker can be downloaded from Activetuts+, a high-quality Flash tutorials community, which also shares the detailed story of the slider.

Blender is an open source 3D content creation suite.

It is an all-in-one package for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, and gaming.

User interface of Blender is formed of boxes, where all of them can be moved for the max. flexibility for not being blocked by the UI.

Advanced animations & the integrated game engine can be controlled with Python scripting which also makes developers a part of the game rather than only the designers.

A very detailed feature list can be found here.

The software has a large community & is very well-documented which makes it easier to improve your skills.

An open source game built with Blender:

Yo Frankie! is an open source game built with Blender & its integrated game engine.

The game is also like a source of information (as you can download the source files) for anyone planning to develop games with the application.

P.S. Anyone into 3D design is probably aware of Blender but this post is published considering it may be helpful to fresh 3D designers.

This is a 3D Flash gallery built with Papervision 3D.

It uses a XML as the database for image information & displays the images with a nice effect.

You can check a demo of the gallery here.

The download package includes the source files which is good for improving it and/or taking a deeper look to the use of Papervision 3D.

Update: Tutorial on creating a Papervision 3D gallery can be found here.

10 days ago, a post was published at WebResourcesDepot announcing a giveaway of 3 3D Wall Pro licences.

To remember:

3D Wall Pro is a Papervision3D powered, very good looking & interactive wall that can display:

• Images
• Youtube & streaming videos
• SWF files
• Flickr images

And, here are the winners:

• Matio (comment #15635)
• Pablo Pasqualino (comment #15529)
• Kitten (comment #15709)

Thanks to everyone for contributing & keep following WRD for fresh web resources & giveaways.