Thinkbox Software releases Krakatoa MY
New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
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Eye candy: Quantic Dream's PS4 real-time facial demo
Our tech shows the soul in a character's eyes, David Cage tells the PlayStation 4 launch audience.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Eye candy: Capcom's Deep Down PlayStation 4 demo
Nice facial animation and dynamic lighting, and some awesome environments. But is it prerendered?
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Blender 2.66 adds Bullet physics, Dynamic Topology
Impressive update adds high-end rigid-body dynamics, true claylike sculpting to the open-source app.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Motion Boutique releases Newton 2.0 for After Effects
Now shipping: After Effects physics engine gets cool new simulation tools, including basic soft bodies.
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
'First ever 3D printing pen' nets $900k on Kickstarter
But is WobbleWorks' 3Doodler the future of 3D creation or just a very fancy hot glue gun?
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Cebas posts new preview videos of finalRender 4 GPU
Updated: new video talks up the world's first "continuous rendering workflow between CPU and GPU".
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 4 for 3ds Max
Vegetation scattering plugin now compatible with V-Ray, Maxwell, Arion, Octane and Thea Render.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 8.2
Free update to digital-paint-cum-VFX tool adds basic terrain generation, GPU support, new Bokeh filter.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Epic adds Substance support to Unreal Engine
See Allegorithmic's parametric texture format in action in UE3 in the very Lovecraftian 'Beneath' demo.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Videos: How Weta created the creatures of The Hobbit
Updated: New video shows the environment work, along with Gollum, Azog and the Goblin King.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Eye candy: The Jockstrap Raiders
Could Mark Nelson's one-man, five-year labour of love be the best short that Aardman never produced?
Friday, February 15th, 2013