Animate food and win a seat of Houdini Master
Enter Side Effects' Cook-Off contest to win Houdini licences, plus content from Stash and cmiVFX.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Free Resources
Download six 'Smart IBL' HDR sets for free
HDR Labs makes six sets of HDR images for faster image-based lighting available as free downloads.
Monday, June 13th, 2011
New app lists hotkeys for (almost) every CG package
Gfx Hotkeys 2.0 shows keyboard shortcuts for over 30 VFX and 3D tools, for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Skillset releases free guide to essential VFX skills
Real-world 39-page guide to today's job market should be essential reading for all wannabe artists.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
e-on software updates Vue PLE to version 9.5
Free edition of landscape generator gets new cloud-editing, relighting and EcoSystem painting tools.
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The Foundry ships Mari 1.3: now with Ptex support
Latest update to 3D painting tool also adds displacement preview, environment mapping.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The Bakery to release free viewer and comp toolkit
Developer to release playback and compositing tools for its Relight interactive relighting software.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Autodesk trials cloud-based photogrammetry service
Upload reference images to Project Photofly to convert them to a free, downloadable 3D model.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
DAZ 3D ships DAZ Studio 4
New version of the free figure posing and animation tool offers unified rig for all characters, from kids to trolls.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
e-on launches LumenRT
Vue developer begins shipping new $295 real-time visualisation tool for SketchUp and SketchUp Pro.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
VoluMedic 3.0 for LightWave to go GPU-accelerated
Volumetric rendering app used at Zoic Studios to gain fully GPU-accelerated preview renderer, new interactive editing tools.
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
MachStudio Pro 2 made available as free download
StudioGPU releases $3,999 GPU-accelerated renderer for free; aims to make money from support and training.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
BlenRig 4.0 adds automatic skinning to Blender
Juan Pablo Bouza releases new version of his free automatic rigging and skinning system for Blender 2.5x.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011