Interview: LightWave VP and Avatar veteran Rob Powers
The man behind Avatar's virtual art department talks about his role in the development of LightWave 10.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Free Resources
Exotic Matter ships Naiad
Innovative fluid simulation software used on Avatar and Dawn Treader gets full commercial release.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Get Automatron 3ds Max animation plug-in for free
Download the rigging and animation tools created for Andy Murdock's classic short LOR: Lots of Robots.
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Get Clarisse: intriguing hybrid 2D/3D graphics app
New free alpha enables users to modify renders by dragging models, lights around within image itself.
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
New website offers 30MB of free textures daily
10 Ravens offers registered users chance to download textures and reference images for free.
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Animate a sheep and get seen in cinemas worldwide
Animate one of the sheep from Dygra Films' feature Holy Night, and see your work in the credits!
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
New plug-in puts cloud rendering inside Blender
Developer of innovative GreenButton plug-in now working on versions for 3ds Max and Maya.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Chaos Group's PhoenixFD moves into liquid simulation
New 1.2 update adds liquid-simulation toolset to promising new 3ds Max smoke and fire engine.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Free Maxwell update adds interactive renderer
Maxwell Render 2.5 gains Maxwell Fire preview renderer, updates to subsurface scattering and scripting.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
cebas releases packed 3.5 update to its Max renderers
finalRender 3.5 and 3.5 SE gain overhauled GI and stereo camera rig from Alice in Wonderland.
Friday, December 10th, 2010
CityEngine Vue: instant 3D cities for just $299
New low-cost edition of powerful procedural city-modelling app brings instant urbanity to Vue users.
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Video tutorial: sharper shadows with HDRI in V-Ray
Discover how to preserve crisp shadows in your V-Ray renders in Matt Guetta's exclusive tutorial.
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
New OnLive demo shows Maya running on an iPad
Games streaming service broadens horizons to serve 3D software to mobile devices over the cloud.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010