Siggraph 2011: watch the five-minute rundown
All the highlights from the world's premier CG show, condensed into a handy coffee-break-sized info burst
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Mudbox's new Gigatexel engine
User video shows textures being painted in real time on a model with over 1,000 2k maps already applied.
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Autodesk releases fun free iPad sculpting app
123D Sculpt offers basic sculpting and photo-based texturing tools. No option to export the model, though.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: see the new tools in Softimage 2012.5
Watch Autodesk's movies of the new modelling and simulation tools in the upcoming Advantage Pack update.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Imagination shows off Brazil 3.0 beta
Render engine returns from a string of buyouts rebuilt and repositioned as an SDK for interactive raytracing.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: peek under the hood of the new Houdini
Check out Side Effects' videos of the turbo-charged new geometry engine and simulation tools in Houdini 12.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Big Buck Bunny stars in 3Dconnexion mouse ad
Open-source movie mascot comes out of retirement to endorse native Blender support in 3D input devices.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Autodesk inks licensing deal with Disney
Gains five years' exclusive access to XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology used on Bolt and Tangled.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Vicon demos 'mobile mocap' cameras
New lipstick-sized cameras could make facial capture as portable as with markerless capture systems.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Eye candy: cool new Houdini 2011 demo reel
Watch a range of things exploded, deformed or transformed in Houdini from recent games and movies.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Pixar unveils RenderMan for Maya 5.0
Forthcoming update to overhaul raytracing and add 'physically plausible' shading, radiosity cache.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Maya to get native Bullet physics
New Advantage Pack also adds support for the Alembic data interchange format, new Node Editor.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: videos of the upcoming 3ds Max update
Check out State Sets and iray running in an ActiveShade window - both due in the new Advantage Pack.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011