Compare Vulkan to OpenGL ES in 'gnomes per second'
Imagination Technologies' demo of graphics APIs draws 40,000 gnomes in real time on a PowerVR G6430 mobile GPU.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
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INTiMATE will let you talk to characters to control them
IKinema's new technology aims to enable devs to build simple text and voice controls into tools like Maya.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Sneak peek: Fabric Engine 2 for Modo
Video: See the upcoming integration between Modo and the CG tools dev framework, due in beta this month.
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
Sneak peek: see the new features in RealFlow 2015
Updated: Watch videos of all the key features, including the new GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers and OpenVDB meshing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Download the assets from the Unity 5 Blacksmith demo
Get two characters and two detailed environments in FBX format, plus lots of bonus tools, all available free.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.5
Updated: Voxel sculpting package gets new PBR materials system, Photoshop-compatible layer groups, new UV options.
Friday, May 29th, 2015
Escape Motions releases Rebelle paint package
Updated, now shipping: Nifty $60 tool mimics how real watercolour and acrylic paint flows and blends.
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
Eye candy: Square Enix's Witch DirectX 12 tech demo
See four Titan X GPUs push 63 million polygons around in real time to create some gorgeous visuals.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
3Dflow releases 3DF Zephyr Lite
University of Verona spin-off ships new $199 image-based modelling tool with built-in Sketchfab export.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Download the assets from Epic Games' UE4 Kite demo
Free Open World Demo Collection asset pack includes 42 rock and tree meshes, 138 hi-res textures.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Download Nvidia's bizarre new PhysX FleX demo
Fire bananas at flags, pour goop on armadillos and melt bunnies in this real-time multiphysics test scene.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Fabric Engine 2.0 to add visual programming system
Updated: Create high-end VFX tools by wiring nodes together, Softimage ICE-style. See a demo video here.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action
Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015