Our pick of Siggraph 2012's Emerging Technologies
On show next week: devices to project faces on soap bubbles and control 3D apps by stroking plants.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
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Shotgun Software announces Shotgun 4.0
Update to production-management tool on show at Siggraph, along with beta of shot-review tool Revolver.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Thinkbox Software announces Draft
New plugin for the Deadline render manager automates creation of contact sheets and QuickTimes.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Motion Tools 1.0: do motion graphics in Softimage
Gustavo Boehs' free collection of ICE-based tools automates common motion graphics tasks.
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Rich Diamant ships Diamant Modeling Tools for Maya
Updated: Blizzard star's retopology and brush-based modelling plugin now out of alpha and ready to buy.
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
LightWave 11.5 feature list 'announced'
Although probably not officially, given that it's on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Warning: may contain spoilers.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Eye candy: the Houdini 2012 demo reel
Watch a lot of cool things you'd expect to be created in Houdini - and some more cool things you wouldn't.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Verold Studio Widget puts ZBrush models into blogs
Embed high-poly sculpts in blogs and forum posts, thanks to the folk behind ZBrush's QRemesher tools.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Nuke and Katana
Details to follow at Siggraph, along with news of Alembic and deep image support in V-Ray for 3ds Max.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R4
Major free update adds retopology tools, new Insert Multi Mesh system, (almost) unlimited undos. Very cool.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Chris Zurbrigg releases Blue Pencil for Maya
New plugin lets you draw over the 3D viewport to rough out animation, sketch layouts or mark up shots.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Thinkbox Software announces Deadline 6.0
Popular renderfarm management solution to get support for cloud render services, new standard GUI.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Preview: thinkingParticles 6 and thinkingParticles GE
3ds Max particle system to gain fluid and cloth sim tools, plus new edition for Unity and Unreal game engines.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012