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
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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
The Foundry announces Nuke 7.0
Major update to the industry-standard compositor adds GPU acceleration, new 2D tracker, new modelling tools.
Friday, September 7th, 2012
The Pixel Farm ships PFDepth
Innovative off-the-shelf tool for scene reconstruction and stereo conversion of 2D footage now available to buy.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Autodesk denies intent to kill off 3ds Max, Softimage
Both teams affected, but end of life rumours "totally false". Updated with further commentary from Autodesk.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Autodesk releases SketchBook Pro 6
Desktop sketching and concepting tool gets extra brush options, plus new curve guide and Color Puck.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R14
Updated: Download the demo to try the dynamics tools, brush-based sculpting and AE interoperability.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Sneak peek: Colimo 1.5
See the upcoming DoF and stereo tools in Motiva's innovative software for manipulating rendered images.
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Discover the secrets of real-time rendering in Maya
Animator Joe Daniels sets out the Viewport 2.0-based workflow he used on his Starfish Ninja short.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Luxion releases KeyShot 3.3 and KeyShotVR
Updated real-time raytracer gets add-on for exporting 3D models for viewing in any HTML5 browser.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012