New Wacom pen saves your sketches in digital form
Doodle in your notebook with the new Wacom Inkling and have the results saved as a PSD or JPG.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Design armour for Deep Realms and win $1,000
Get your concept art into the next update of Playdom's Facebook RPG and pocket a grand in cash.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Eye candy: Next Limit's new RealFlow demo reel
See a lot of great commercials work done using the fluid simulator, plus Batman looking mopey in the rain.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Sneak peek: ZBrush 4R2's new DynaMesh feature
True digital clay comes a step nearer with Pixologic's new auto-retopology feature, due next month.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Watch the making of Shane Acker's Plus Minus
See inside the 9 director's new short, co-created with Meni Tsirbas and students at Gnomon Studios.
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Preview: the fall's 10 biggest VFX movies
AWN runs down the list from Anonymous to Real Steel, and speculates about the first VFX-enhanced sex scene.
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Eye candy: the Blender Siggraph demo reel
The leading open-source app gets a demo reel to match its commercial rivals - and pretty cool it is too.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Autodesk buys Numenus raytracing technology
Company acquires staff and code from the developer of the RenderGin NURBS rendering software.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Autodesk releases free Mac OS X video effects app
Warp video in real time or control fire and smoke with your body movements with the new Motion FX.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Video: Houdini's Siggraph user group presentation
Watch Side Effects Software's Jeff Wagner demo some of the cool tools coming in Houdini 12.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Epic releases new Unreal Development Kit beta
Monthly update to the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 adds new in-game movie capture, better material editor.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Michael Gibson releases beta version of MoI 3
Easy-to-use NURBS modeller to get new Flow feature for deforming one 3D object over another.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Red Giant ships Trapcode Suite 11 for After Effects
Particle tool Trapcode Form gets a major upgrade in the latest update to Peder Norrby's VFX plug-ins.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011