Video tutorial: master texturing workflow in Mari
Watch a 45-minute walkthrough from Brandon Fayette and Jake Raymor of Bad Robot Productions
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Blender accepted into Google Summer of Code
Student coders to be paid to help develop the popular open-source 3D package this summer.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Thinkbox Software ships Frost for 3ds Max
Former Frantic Films developers ship cool new meshing plug-in: check out the new tutorials here.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Monday freebies: 9 free iOS-ready low-poly models
fatBOX software releases a set of low-poly cars and characters, suitable for mobile development.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Monday freebies: 33 free video-editing plug-ins
CoreMelt releases 'CoreMeltFREE' sampler pack of its After Effects and Final Cut Pro video FX plug-ins.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Monday freebies: nearly 100 free Photoshop actions
Boost your post-processing toolkit with this diverse set of one-click effects from XPro Software.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Video: Max 2012 viewport 'destroys' 3ds Max 2011
User video points up differences in performance between "beast"-like 3ds Max 2012 and "joke"-like 2011.
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
New app lets you render animation via Facebook
RenderWeb taps the power of Facebook friends (and distributed rendering) to get jobs done faster.
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Gnomon Workshop ships real-time games effects DVD
Splinter Cell veteran Maxime Deleris provides expert training for 3ds Max, UDK on key games effects tasks.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Review: GPU acceleration in Adobe Creative Suite 5
CS5's GPU-accelerated features speed up workflow - but your choice of card isn't as crucial as you think.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Pixar art director launches Japanese relief fund
Donate to the Artists Help Japan Fund via Dice Tsutsumi's blog: over $16,000 received so far.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Gnomon School announces Best of Term award winners
Check out award-winning 2D and 3D art from the leading school's students for the Fall 2010 term.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Eye candy (ish): see five minutes of Source Code
Not terribly VFX-related, but still cool. Opening of Duncan Jones' follow-up to Moon now available on Yahoo!
Monday, March 14th, 2011