RE:Vision Effects ships RE:Match for Nuke, Fusion
Formerly After Effects and Premiere Pro-only color-matching plugin suite now available for OFX compositors.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Trimble ships SketchUp 2013
New branding, new library of pattern fills, new online Extension Warehouse - but too much else.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 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
Microsoft announces specs for Xbox One
As Microsoft unveils its rival to the PlayStation 4 and Wii U, we round up the key info for games artists.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Caustic Visualizer 1.1 for Maya adds batch rendering
Real-time raytracing plugin gets option to batch-render animations. Can be set to mimic the look of mental ray, too.
Tuesday, May 21st, 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
Unity makes Android and iOS add-ons free to use
Pricing for the game engine's mobile add-ons cut from $400 to nothing if you're an indie developer.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Eye candy: Blur's Batman: Arkham Origins cinematic
At nearly five minutes, the gorgeous first teaser for the Batman prequel is virtually a short in its own right.
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Back HitFilm for Mac and save on HitFilm for Windows
Fund FXhome's Kickstarter campaign to bring its low-cost FX tool to Mac and save $150 on the Windows edition.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
DAZ 3D ships DAZ Studio 4.6 Pro
Free figure-posing and animation tool gets OpenSubdiv and Ptex support, new subsurface shader.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp
Try this major update to the renderer while it's in open beta and use $800 of software free for three months.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
See 3ds Max 'running' on a MacBook Pro
Demo of Otoy's ORBX technology shows Max being streamed from the cloud to Firefox on a Mac laptop.
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Video tutorial: beyond key frame animation in 3ds Max
Watch a free one-hour tutorial from Chris Murray on using controllers, contraints and wire parameters.
Thursday, May 16th, 2013