Holomatix ships SprayTrace mental ray viewer for Maya
Updated: new plugin provides interactive preview of a mental ray scene - now with Mac OS X support.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
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Gnomon releases four-DVD Alex Alvarez Maya tutorial
Mammoth new release features nine hours of training on Creating Plants in Maya/Mental Ray.
Friday, July 13th, 2012
Autodesk Labs rolls out Project Geppetto 2
Update to the work-in-progress 3ds Max crowd simulation system adds realistic characters, motion synthesis.
Friday, July 13th, 2012
Will you soon use a touch screen to sculpt models?
Wacom tech preview shows the new gesture-enabled Cintiq 24HD touch pen display in use to control Mudbox.
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Jorge Rodriguez releases SMAK 2.0 for free
Fast, lightweight tool for baking hi-res models into normal, AO and cavity maps goes open source.
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Valve releases Source Filmmaker machinima tool
Updated: In-house movie-making toolset now out of closed beta and free to anyone with a Steam account.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Video Copilot releases Element 3D for After Effects
'Greatest After Effects plugin known to mankind' renders 3D models in real time, with motion blur and DoF.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Autodesk unveils Scaleform for Unity and mobile
New releases to bring the games UI-design tool to Unity and Flash developers, for $295 per seat.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
eyeon ships Fusion 6.4
New update to compositing package adds geometry particles, support for ARRI and Phantom RAW files.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Wacom announces Cintiq 22HD and 24HD touch
New top-of-the-range pen displays offer much improved screen quality, but be prepared to get a bank loan.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Watch Evolution: two minutes of Softimage particle magic
It's officially a demo for Mootzoid's emFlock2 version 2.3 flocking tool, but it's also beautiful eye candy.
Monday, July 9th, 2012
Eye candy: New Rise of the Guardians trailer
See Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman as you have never seen them before.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Project focus: the making of Exoids
Director Meni Tsirbas talks us through his post-apocalyptic short, created with an all-student team.
Friday, July 6th, 2012