Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
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IDV releases SpeedTree 7 Studio and Cinema
Plant-generation tool gets support for Sub-Ds, Alembic, animated growth and seasonal changes.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Unity 4.3 adds new 2D tools and blendshape animation
Updated, now shipping: there's a new markerless facial mocap plugin and the Unity Cloud program, too.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Eye candy: Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm cinematic
Watch characters from StarCraft beat the snot out of those from Diablo in the teaser for the upcoming "hero brawler".
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Get 15 different grass clumps in MAX, OBJ and FBX format
Download architectural visualisation pro Mischa Winkler's useful free asset. Licensed for commercial use.
Saturday, November 9th, 2013
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013
Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Gnomon ships Realistic Skin with ZBrush and KeyShot
Blizzard artist Dominic Qwek's ground-breaking tutorial reveals how to sculpt and render fine skin details.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
Video: the Expresii digital ink simulation system
See ink 'running' under gravity when a Cintiq is tilted in this beautiful demo for the work-in-progress technology.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Southpaw updates Tactic asset-management system
Open-source tool gets better database and version-control integration. Source code on GitHub.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Maxon upgrades Cineware as part of After Effects update
Use Cinema 4D's Physical renderer inside the AE viewport as part of the After Effects CC (12.1) release.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta
Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.
Monday, November 4th, 2013
Blender 2.69 ships
Updated: Open-source 3D tool gets option to import FBX files, plus new hair shader and plane tracking.
Monday, November 4th, 2013