Eye candy: The Brute's Passion
A medieval torturer falls in love in René Hoekstra's comedy short: like Pepé Le Pew with thumbscrews
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
CGschool releases free 90-minute Onyx Trees tutorial
Create vegetation with the OnyxTREE STORM, Onyx2Max and OnyxGRASS plug-ins for 3ds Max.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Make yourself look like Steve Jobs in Blender
See curiously disturbing digital make-up tests from Mango, the new Blender Foundation open movie.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Oramyst launches royalty-free character design site
Buy or download royalty-free character concept art, complete with orthographic reference images.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 3.0
New version of real-time custom HDR design tool gains new blending modes and falloff controls.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Watch the making of the 10 best VFX ads of 2012
Discover how the year's greatest TV spots were put together with fxguide's comprehensive run-down.
Friday, December 30th, 2011
ZBrush 4R2b update to add new FiberMesh hair system
Brush-based system for growing and styling hair to be included in Pixologic's upcoming free patch.
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Enter the Lollipop Shaders snow shading contest
Celebrate the latest updates to the RenderMan shader library with your chance to win two of your choice.
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Miguel Winfield ships MGtools 2.5
Latest version of Maya animators' toolkit includes automated real-time scene-recovery system.
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
RandomControl releases Arion 1.6
Second major update to software in three weeks offers support for rendering scenes of infinite size.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
New site offers users 100% profit from model sales
Now out of beta: pay a flat fee to sell models through CGTrader, and pocket the rest of the profits.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Review: Autodesk's 2012 entertainment software
Jason Lewis assesses how Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage and Mudbox 2012 perform in the real world.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Read excerpts of Jamie Cardoso's new book for free
Arch viz artist posts extracts from 3D Realism: Practical and Easy Workflows on his blog.
Monday, December 26th, 2011