Get into SIGGRAPH 2011 for (almost) nothing
Become a student volunteer and gain entry to Siggraph Vancouver in exchange for 18 hours of work.
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Chaos Group announces 'world tour' for V-Ray 2.0
Promotional trip to span four continents over coming months: but is there a session near you?
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The Foundry releases free open beta of STORM
New tool speeds up rough cuts and playback of digital footage 'like REDCINE-X on steroids'.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The Pixel Farm releases free colour-grading tool
Get AirGrade and control all your colour grading operations on set from the comfort of your iPhone.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Act-3D releases Lumion real-time rendering tool
Now shipping: new render tool offers intuitive-looking UI and relatively modest €749 price tag.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
ZSwitcher: use Maya shortcuts inside ZBrush
Now shipping: new dRaster plug-in enables users to adopt Maya and Mudbox workflow in ZBrush.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Eye candy: Destiny - epic cinematic-style animation
Check out this gothic trailer for an imagined game. Could you help fund a longer version?
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Planetside Software releases Terragen 2.2
Landscape generator gets new display options, cloud tools and raytraced atmospheres.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Get Gear: new open source Softimage rigging system
Replace the classic biped and quadruped rigs with StudioNest's new modular rig-creation system.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Get Oscar-winning video editing software for free
Public beta of EditShare's newly open-sourced Lightworks video editing software now available.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Video: How Blizzard created the new Cataclysm intro
Short making-of shows the creative process behind last month's teaser for the new WoW expansion.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
How MPC created Deathly Hallows' seven Potters
Nicholas Aithadi explains how Mova's Contour facial mocap system helped MPC create the sequence.
Friday, November 26th, 2010
New free beta tools add Ptex support to 3ds Max
Mankua's Stripes plug-in suite adds support for Disney's UV-less texture format inside Max.
Thursday, November 25th, 2010