Blender Foundation to launch pro networking site
New Blender Network website to act as 'online directory and social network' for Blender professionals.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Free Resources
Find free HD stock video footage via Videezy
Find reference, effects and B-roll footage on this new web community from the folk behind Brusheezy.
Friday, July 20th, 2012
Video: high-quality facial scanning with your DSLR
Or 18 DSLRs, at any rate. See the impressive results possible with Ten24's video of its capture process
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Eric 'Mootzoid' Mootz releases emReader for modo
Import RealFlow, Softimage or Maya animations for rendering with the cult Softimage coder's first modo plugin.
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Autodesk to acquire social video developer Socialcam
Could the $60 million deal mean that you soon have an Autodesk effects app on your smartphone?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Holomatix ships SprayTrace mental ray viewer for Maya
Updated: new plugin provides interactive preview of a mental ray scene - now with Mac OS X support.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Gnomon releases four-DVD Alex Alvarez Maya tutorial
Mammoth new release features nine hours of training on Creating Plants in Maya/Mental Ray.
Friday, July 13th, 2012
Autodesk Labs rolls out Project Geppetto 2
Update to the work-in-progress 3ds Max crowd simulation system adds realistic characters, motion synthesis.
Friday, July 13th, 2012
Jorge Rodriguez releases SMAK 2.0 for free
Fast, lightweight tool for baking hi-res models into normal, AO and cavity maps goes open source.
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Valve releases Source Filmmaker machinima tool
Updated: In-house movie-making toolset now out of closed beta and free to anyone with a Steam account.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Autodesk unveils Scaleform for Unity and mobile
New releases to bring the games UI-design tool to Unity and Flash developers, for $295 per seat.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
ArtVPS adds cloud rendering to Shaderlight 2.2
Send jobs to the cloud directly from within SketchUp with the plugin's new one-click online rendering system.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Get into Siggraph Asia 2012 for nothing
Sign up as a student volunteer to get full access to Asia's premier CG festival without paying a cent.
Friday, June 29th, 2012