Golaem ships Crowd 1.2
Intuitive Maya crowd-simulation system gets support for V-Ray and Disney's Partio file format.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
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One to bookmark: Reference! Reference!
Need a video of a dwarf or a man twirling his mustache? This free animation reference library has both.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R13
Latest version of Maxon's design and animation software now available to buy. Price remains unchanged from R12.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
A&G Tool Company ships Studio Light Rig 1.5
Set of pre-built 3ds Max light rigs gains Max 2012 support, plus new light types and presets.
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
3ds Max to get Bullet physics plug-in
Mir Vadim posts work-in-progress videos of Bullet support in his RayFire dynamics add-on.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
After Effects gets its own physics engine
Now shipping: Motion Boutique releases its Newton rigid-body engine for Adobe's compositing app.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Kerner Optical closes: the end of an era in SFX
Legendary practical effects facility behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies closes its doors.
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Watch Autodesk's Siggraph 2011 masterclasses online
Free training sessions on next-gen head modelling, animation in Maya and Softimage, and VFX in Max.
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
See the best videos created using Project Photofly
Watch our pick of the work created using Autodesk's neat new online image-based modelling service.
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Blender to get brand new motion-capture toolset
Google Summer of Code work results in mocap import and retargeting, new 3D audio tools.
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
$10,000 contest launches free version of Lumion
Create a movie in the new non-commercial edition of Act-3D's real-time renderer and win cash prizes.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
DNA Research cuts price of 3Delight for Maya
Version 6 of the RenderMan-compliant renderer drops the cost of a quad-core licence to just $400.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
HDR Light Studio Pro gets new KeyShot plug-in
Design lighting set-ups inside KeyShot in real time, then export the results as a custom HDR file.
Thursday, September 1st, 2011