KeyShot to get native support for 3ds Max, Maya
New plugins will let easy-to-use real-time renderer to play nicely with DCC software, not just CAD apps.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
LuxRender team launches new developer blog
We're not dead: we just need to talk about the new features more, admit creators of open-source renderer.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
The Foundry ships Mari 1.4
Latest update to 3D paint tool adds support for layered PSDs, triplanar texture projection and OpenColorIO.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti: new fur plugin for Maya
Powerful new tool offers topology and texture UV-independent grooming for use in VFX pipelines.
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Xfrog Inc. releases Xfrog for Cinema 4D 5
Plant-generation tool updated to work with Cinema 4D R12 and R13, ships at temporary 30% discount.
Monday, November 28th, 2011
NFB releases PixStop: free stop-motion app
Child-friendly app offers iPad owners basic stop-motion and pixilation capabilities.
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Quixel releases nD02: new normal mapping tool
Generate and preview normal and AO maps entirely inside Photoshop with this intuitive new plug-in.
Friday, November 25th, 2011
e-on software ships entire Vue 10 product line
Update to landscape generation software features new tools for routing roads and placing rocks.
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Autodesk calls for entries for its 2012 demo reels
Send in still images and videos to feature on its best of games and film-TV-and-interactive-media reels.
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall by 50%
Temporarily, at least. Purchase the GPU-based Maya renderer before 12 December and save $670.
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Next Limit releases new one-hour RealFlow tutorial
Discover the joy of working with nodes in this live recording of the first RealFlow 2012 webinar.
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Eye candy: Hooked
An undersea beatboxing session goes awry when the star becomes calimari in Cybertime's quirky short, created using Cinema 4D R13.
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Marius Silaghi releases TopoRelax for 3ds Max
New modifier relaxes meshes without altering their volume: handy for sculpting and morph targets.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011