e-on releases free PLE edition of The Plant Factory
Learning edition has the tools of the $1,495 Producer edition, but renders are marked and export is limited.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Free Resources
Get a free anatomy reference app from MARA3D
Take a photo of yourself using one of the developer's apps and get another of your choice for free.
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
10 questions for... God of War concept artist Izzy Medrano
The designer and illustrator reveals his workflow and tells us why concept art is "bullshitting with visual aids".
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp
V-Ray for SketchUp 1.6 beta becomes full-point release, adding proxies, V-Ray RT, need for dongle.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
10 questions for... creature creator Dominic Qwek
The Blizzard star and veteran of Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm faces our questions about his 3D workflow.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
Ephere ships Lab for 3ds Max
Interesting new tool lets non-coders create their own standalone 3ds Max plugins by wiring nodes in a graph.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Autodesk launches pay-as-you-go pricing for Max, Maya
Cost of rental may appeal more to studios than freelancers, but user feedback has been broadly positive.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Ricoh launches $399 spherical panorama camera
The Theta captures 360-degree images in a single click - but is the quality good enough for CG pros?
Friday, September 6th, 2013
10 questions for... ILM's Ryan Calloway
The creature artist and veteran of Rango and Pacific Rim runs our gauntlet of tech and career questions.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Lagoa launches Lagoa 1.5
Cloud render platform adds physical sky, background rendering, option to embed scenes in web pages.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Abvent releases Artlantis 5
Architectural renderer gets new UI, material catalog and preview options, plus tools to build VR objects.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Eye candy: RealtimeUK's War Thunder 'Heroes' teaser
Russian aerial combat MMO gets unexpectedly great trailer courtesy of UK cinematics stars.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013