Lightstorm3D ships L3Deformer bundle for Maya
Price for hotly tipped tools fixed at €149. Windows-only so far, but OS X and Linux versions in the works.
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
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The Foundry ships Mari 1.3: now with Ptex support
Latest update to 3D painting tool also adds displacement preview, environment mapping.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
The Bakery to release free viewer and comp toolkit
Developer to release playback and compositing tools for its Relight interactive relighting software.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Eye candy: the making of Kung Fu Panda 2
Not one, but two, making-of featurettes available online for your viewing pleasure.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Autodesk trials cloud-based photogrammetry service
Upload reference images to Project Photofly to convert them to a free, downloadable 3D model.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Rumours of our death are exaggerated: mental images
Absorption into Nvidia's internal ARC team is not the beginning of the end for mental ray, say key staff.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Allegorithmic ships grunge and normal-mapping tools
Texture specialist ships new grunge and CrazyBump-style toolkits, calls for requests for future tools.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
DAZ 3D ships DAZ Studio 4
New version of the free figure posing and animation tool offers unified rig for all characters, from kids to trolls.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
e-on launches LumenRT
Vue developer begins shipping new $295 real-time visualisation tool for SketchUp and SketchUp Pro.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
VoluMedic 3.0 for LightWave to go GPU-accelerated
Volumetric rendering app used at Zoic Studios to gain fully GPU-accelerated preview renderer, new interactive editing tools.
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Eye candy: Slimtime
Losing weight at all costs is the name of the game in this sweet-natured (and sweet-toothed) homage to Jacques Tati.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
VES director slams exploitation of VFX artists
"We help a lot of people make a lot of money, but it’s not being shared on an equal basis," claims open letter to the industry.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Eye candy: Loom
Awesomely photorealistic VFX short finally gets a Vimeo release. Arachnophobes: be very afraid...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011