February 26, 2013
New version of the facial motion-capture retargeting system to debut at GDC 2013 next month. Read More »
February 25, 2013
Real-time mocap solver for Maya now supports OptiTrack hardware; new, more advanced constraints. Read More »
February 22, 2013
New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops. Read More »
February 14, 2013
Mental ray rendering toolkit gets new Light Select and Diagnostic passes, better architectural light shader. Read More »
February 7, 2013
Former Mac Guff lighting TD's new plugin speeds up common tasks for rendering Maya scenes in V-Ray. Read More »
February 5, 2013 | 3 comments
Imagination Technologies thinks so. We explore why its new raytracing cards could change how you work. Read More »
February 4, 2013
Updated: new free Lite edition of the iOS app lists keyboard shortcuts for key 3D, VFX and graphics packages. Read More »
February 1, 2013
Updated: New trial version available of the vegetation instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D. Read More »
January 31, 2013
Innovative new dedicated hardware gives real-time raytracing for the price of a high-end pro GPU. Read More »
January 29, 2013
Maya crowd-simulation tool adds support for Arnold renderer, new automatic texture-variation system. Read More »
January 25, 2013
Gnomon's new live online courses make its legendary VFX tuition available anywhere in the world. Read More »
January 24, 2013
Lots of free tutorials for 3ds Max and Maya, but only a couple for Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage. Read More »
January 22, 2013
Mark Jackson's Red9 Studio Pack brings big-studio pipeline tools to small studios without R&D teams. Read More »
January 18, 2013
Nifty Boolean-based rig mimics the look and motion of a claymation character, in all its wobbliness. Read More »
January 17, 2013
It's aliens vs Skynet in Kaleb Lechowski's incredible one-man short, created in seven months in Blender and Maya. Read More »
January 15, 2013
Updated: Pricing and release date (kind of) set for neat rigging plugin. Pledge your support via IndieGoGo. Read More »
January 14, 2013
If you're using one of the last three releases, at any rate. Some SRPs and maintenance prices also up. Read More »
January 10, 2013
Free set of utilities gets new Geo Locator tool for constraining objects to surfaces. Works well with vehicles. Read More »
January 9, 2013
Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold. Read More »
January 2, 2013 | 3 comments
Get 31 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen. Read More »