Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2011
Affordable camera-tracking solution moves out of beta testing and into customers' hands.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
World gets first sub-$2,000 Ethernet mocap camera
NaturalPoint's new OptiTrack S250e camera weighs in $101 short of convenient pricing watershed.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Toy Story 3 tops Oscar tips for Best Animated Feature
Other 14 movies in contention on Academy Awards long list snubbed by mainstream news sites.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Eye candy: Alex Roman's amazing new photoreal ad
The Third & Seventh's creator posts sumptuous new spot for Silestone worktops. Those are not real fruit.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Pixar cuts 40% off price of RenderMan Pro Server
Cost of industry-standard render tool slashed to $2,000. RenderMan for Maya pricing unaffected.
Monday, November 15th, 2010
New hack turns Kinect into low-cost mocap camera
Cool videos show US researcher demo Microsoft games peripheral as basic 3D capture tool.
Monday, November 15th, 2010
See Dennis Muren's on-set photos of classic ILM films
The VFX legend shares behind-the-scenes snaps of life on Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and Star Wars
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Eye candy: Rockstar Games' LA Noire debut trailer
Hardboiled title showcases facial motion captured with revolutionary new markerless technology.
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Video: free 90-minute Houdini networks tutorial
Includes 66-page PDF, scene files and best user comment ever: "It is pleasure like sex with beautiful wife"
Friday, November 12th, 2010
The horrors of VFX contract negotiation exposed
But no, we don't have to pay you overtime, because we have you classified as a technician.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Get over 100 hi-res female reference images for free
Join Ten24 on Facebook and download 186MB of reference images, plus some very good character tutorials.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
HDR Light Studio 2.0 offers real-time HDRI design
Update to Lightmap's HDRI-design software provides real-time lighting tools to users of Autodesk products.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
V-Ray 2.0 beta now shipping
Users with pre-orders get their downloads today. Full commercial release to follow in a month's time.
Monday, November 8th, 2010