Chaos Group announces beta of V-Ray for Maya 2.0
Free beta program brings GPU-accelerated rendering to Maya users. Full release later this month.
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Free Resources
Monday freebies: 9 free iOS-ready low-poly models
fatBOX software releases a set of low-poly cars and characters, suitable for mobile development.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Monday freebies: 33 free video-editing plug-ins
CoreMelt releases 'CoreMeltFREE' sampler pack of its After Effects and Final Cut Pro video FX plug-ins.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Monday freebies: nearly 100 free Photoshop actions
Boost your post-processing toolkit with this diverse set of one-click effects from XPro Software.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Get an(i)ma: a crowd sim system for just $339
It's specifically designed for architectural visualisation use, and works with 3ds Max and Cinema 4D.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Joe Alter to ship corrective sculpting plug-in for Maya
Shave and a Haircut veteran releases free beta of LipService hybrid sculpting/animation tool.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Thea Render hybrid engine gets commercial release
Innovative - and inexpensive - hybrid biased/unbiased renderer gets first commercial release
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Video: Check out the new features in Mudbox 2012
3D paint package to gain support for Ptex format, large production data sets, character posing workflow.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Stylized Character Modeling for Production with Alessandro Baldasseroni
Awesome new character modeling training available for download.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Get the new unlimited-use trial version of finalRender
Output is watermarked, but its functionality is identical to the full version of finalRender 3.5 SE.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
GroBoto 3 gets real-time Boolean editing features
New release positions funky organic art tool as a 'more pragmatic' general-purpose modelling tool.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
OptiTrack announces two sub-$2,000 mocap systems
Optical mocap firm to show two new budget out-of-the-box tracking systems at GDC.
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Di-O-Matic releases sub-$1,500 facial mocap system
New Maskerad system promises to extract detailed facial performances from a single reference video.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011