Gnomon ships Mechanical Character Design
Three-hour training video by Blizzard concept artist Joe Peterson explores how to create cool, realistic mechs.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
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Forget polygons: create animation with atoms
IBM scientists create world's smallest stop-motion animation using ultra-powerful microscope.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Ezequiel Mastrasso releases eze Shader Suite
Free collection of 3Delight and RenderMan shaders simplifies the process of lighting hair and fur.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
See Fabric Engine's Horde do real-time crowd sims
New videos show the work-in-progress previz and VFX tool in use within both Maya and Softimage.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships Stoke MX for 3ds Max
Interesting new 'particle reflow' tool helps users layer small sims from many sources to create bigger ones.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
e-on software releases Vue 11.5 Infinite and xStream
Environment-creation tools get new collision options for EcoParticles, new Color Channel Editor.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Eye candy: Pacific Rim's WonderCon trailer
Updated: New footage of Guillermo del Toro's epic robot-on-alien smackdown posted on YouTube.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Planetside releases free edition of Terragen 2.5
Free limited-resolution edition of the landscape tool gains FBX support, new Card node for billboards.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Eye candy: real-time visualisation in CryEngine 3
Beautiful new showreel from French visualisation studio Enodo proves CryEngine does more than games.
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Umolab launches web store for ultra-realistic 3D models
Need an accurate model of a real household appliance? Check out this collection of hand-vetted assets.
Friday, April 26th, 2013
7 things we learned from creating Flight in the cloud
Atomic Fiction was the first studio to render all the VFX for an A-list movie online. Co-founder Ryan Tudhope shares his tips.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
One to bookmark: The Mari Channel
Peter Aversten's texturing and look dev training blog includes videos on Maya, RenderMan... and yep, Mari.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Eye candy: the Ratchet & Clank movie trailer
You won't see much of the plot, but Rainmaker's teaser for the movie of the game is a neat animated skit.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013