Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Blender gets new user interface team
New team to streamline current UI development efforts. Blender Guru's Andrew Price included as designer.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Next Limit announces new tools in Maxwell Render 3
Discover a new feature a day every day this week on the mini-site for the physically based renderer.
Monday, November 18th, 2013
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.6
Unbiased renderer gets shadow catcher material, spherical camera, better integration with 3ds Max.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Insydium announces X-Particles 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Powerful particle plugin adds new Fragmenter object, particle painting, plus wet maps, spray and foam.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Gnomon announces Master Classes 2013 line-up
Learn from 14 of the world's leading games and VFX artists in the online classes, from 16-31 December.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
IDV releases SpeedTree 7 Studio and Cinema
Plant-generation tool gets support for Sub-Ds, Alembic, animated growth and seasonal changes.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Unity 4.3 adds new 2D tools and blendshape animation
Updated, now shipping: there's a new markerless facial mocap plugin and the Unity Cloud program, too.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Eye candy: Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm cinematic
Watch characters from StarCraft beat the snot out of those from Diablo in the teaser for the upcoming "hero brawler".
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Get 15 different grass clumps in MAX, OBJ and FBX format
Download architectural visualisation pro Mischa Winkler's useful free asset. Licensed for commercial use.
Saturday, November 9th, 2013
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013
Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Thursday, November 7th, 2013