Video: Crytek's tasty new CryEngine tech demo
Engine update shows off physically based skin shading, automated LODs, procedural GPGPU weather.
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Free Resources
Motiva releases Exposure Control plugin for V-Ray
Handy free plugin lets 3ds Max users simulate real-life film stocks and bleach bypass effects.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
The Lone Ranger: the best VFX you never noticed?
Forget the plot: the backdrops are out of this world. ILM explains how it created the film's CG environments.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Planetside ships Terragen 3
Updated: landscape generator gets better GI, Linux render nodes. Both commercial editions now shipping.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
The Leap Motion: control Maya by waving at your screen
Early users say both the Kinect-like controller and its Maya app are potentially powerful, if still frustrating.
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.5
Maya crowd-simulation system gets option to scale crowd agents dynamically, new auto-avoid option.
Friday, August 9th, 2013
Autodesk Labs releases Project Memento
Free tech preview provides simple, semi-automatic tools to clean up laser scan and photogrammetry data.
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Videos: destruction FX with Particle Flow in 3ds Max 2014
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of free training on particle-based destruction and fluid effects.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
VFX breakdown: Moo Studios' new Blue Moon spot
VFX supervisor Sebastiano D'Aprile explains how 'Brewmaster's Inspiration' blends stop-motion and painterly CG.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn festival announces speakers
ILM, Pixar and Blizzard artists to speak at world's best-named CG event in Portugal this September.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
moma for Mari: render Mari scenes in Modo's renderer
Jacobo Barreiro updates his two-way bridge between Modo and Maya to support The Foundry's paint package.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
e-on software releases Vue 11.5 PLE
Learning edition of the environment tool gives access the full feature set of Vue 11.5 Infinite and xStream.
Thursday, July 25th, 2013