Blender Institute to oversee full-length animated movie
Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
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Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta
Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.
Monday, November 4th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Sneak peek: the new features in V-Ray 3.0
Next release to boost brute force raytracing and much more, VRay.info reports from End User Event 2013.
Monday, July 1st, 2013
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2013's technical papers
Our pick of the best CG research covers hair capture, smoke sims - and even fixes for bad handwriting.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Video: how to build a digital chimpanzee in Softimage
See The Mill's painstaking muscle and skin simulation work on its new ad for animal rights charity PETA.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Lagoa.com adds support for hair rendering
Cloud render service now lets users upload hair data in ASE format. Check out some amazing images.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Ezequiel Mastrasso releases eze Shader Suite
Free collection of 3Delight and RenderMan shaders simplifies the process of lighting hair and fur.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
pmG ships messiahStudio 6
Updated: Extra videos show the cult animation and rendering tool's new Skelevision interactive rigging view.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Autodesk Labs unveils Project Pinocchio
Work-in-progress system creates fully rigged 3D characters in your browser for export in FBX format.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Blender 2.66 adds Bullet physics, Dynamic Topology
Impressive update adds high-end rigid-body dynamics, true claylike sculpting to the open-source app.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013