Autodesk to go subscription-only by 2016
Perpetual software licences to be phased out over the next 12-24 months, leaving only maintenance and rental options.
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
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The Making of Transformers: Age of Extinction
Free two-hour event at Gnomon's Hollywood HQ on 11 October reveals how the movie's FX were created.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Shade3D Co buys rights to Shade 3D from e frontier
Key product staff spin out new firm to develop veteran Japanese 3D app. New English release planned.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Gnomon releases six-hour indirect lighting masterclass
Frederic Durand's Final Gather in Maya & mental ray explores fixes for blotches and flicker when using FG.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Ambiera releases CopperCube 5
3D authoring tool for WebGL, Flash and mobile games gets terrain generator, new physics options.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Ephere ships Ornatrix V3
3ds Max hair tool adds option to model hair with standard poly tools, improved Nitrous viewport preview.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3
Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Gnomon releases Photo Collage Prototyping
New DVD from Quixel's Ryan Hawkins reveals the secrets of creating rapid Photoshop concepts.
Friday, September 26th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.1
GPU-based renderer gets option to export render passes, new undo system, up to 30% speed boost.
Friday, September 26th, 2014
Southpaw Technology ships five new Tactic apps
New extensions of the open-source asset-management system include dedicated app for VFX studios.
Friday, September 26th, 2014
Download the free Mery character rig for Maya
Check out the Mery Project's impressive free rigged character. Ideal for student and demo work.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
SolidAngle releases Arnold for Houdini
New Houdini to Arnold plugin now available to download alongside the Maya and Softimage versions.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
e-on ships Vue 2014.6 and PlantFactory 2014.6
Updated: Non-commercial Personal Learning Editions of both apps now available for the 2014.6 editions.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014