Meet Sparta: it's like ZBrush, but for particles
Lyouta Koduka's intriguing tool for 'sculpting' Maya, Softimage and 3ds Max simulations enters free beta.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
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Gnomon ships innovative environment sculpting DVD
Check out David Lesperance's Environment Production Workflow: Tips, Tricks and Concepts today.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
xoio releases more free photographic cutout people
Updated again: another 330MB of stock visualisation images have just gone up on the xoio-air site.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
Eye candy: Autodesk's new post and VFX reel
See recent work created with Autodesk's 3D and finishing tools, including some great spots from boutique studios.
Friday, September 14th, 2012
Tutorial: sculpting realistic clouds with fluids
See 3ds Max VFX guru Allan McKay's 45-minute video on fast-rendering dynamic clouds in FumeFX.
Friday, September 14th, 2012
Sneak peek: real-time clouds in Lumion 3.0
Next release of the visualisation tool to include cool new volumetric cloud system: watch it in action here.
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
PipelineFX ships Qube! 6.4
Renderfarm management system gets new reporting and admin tools, plus MobileView smartphone app.
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Eye Candy: Wreck-It-Ralph Trailer #2
Disney unleashes a new and improved trailer for their new video game based adventure!
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Digital Domain files for bankruptcy
Legendary effects house sells out to private investment firm; looking to secure jobs of LA-based staff.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Mikros Image open-sources Puli and ColorTribe
Leading French VFX house releases Maya/Nuke renderfarm manager and colour-management tools for free.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
GarageGames to open source Torque 3D
Source code for version 1.2 of the venerable indie game engine to be made available for free via GitHub.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
LuxRender 1.0 released
Updated: Open-source physically based render engine for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Softimage hits 'official' release.
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Adobe announces Adobe Anywhere
New streaming tech lets Premiere Pro and After Effects users work on files from anywhere in the world.
Monday, September 10th, 2012