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Eye candy: Exodus

Cool glows rule supreme in Magnus Östergren's unique freeform short, created with After Effects' Mir plugin.

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Grab the latest version of Ali Torabi's plugin for designing complex parametric arrays in 3ds Max.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

And unlike Photoshop CS2, your copy of this painting and image-editing package is definitely legal.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Updated with another new video: see the new FLIP solver, scene graphs, and support for Alembic and Field3D.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Free set of utilities gets new Geo Locator tool for constraining objects to surfaces. Works well with vehicles.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Despite what you may have read on CNET or Gizmodo, or the fact that the download links are still live.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Updated: Physically accurate renderer based on Intel's Embree kernels becomes available for Mac as well as Windows.

Friday, January 4th, 2013

Get 31 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Updated: intriguing video shows the new tools in use to turn a DynaMesh sculpt into a hard-surface model.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Fans claim the $75 app's new OpenEXR support and 32-bit linear workflow make it a viable pro tool.

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Last update: 28 December. Read our list of the best holiday offers available for CG applications.

Friday, December 28th, 2012