Eye candy: The Chase
Watch a hundred cop cars reduced to twisted metal in Philippe Gamer's ultra-kinetic animated road movie.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
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e-on software ships Ozone 6
Atmospheric plugin for all major DCC apps gains new cloud-editing tools and improved render speed.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Review: HP Z210 workstation
HP′s entry-level pro workstation is a powerful beast in its own right, as Jason Lewis's benchmarks reveal.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
PD Pro Howler 7.2 adds new retiming tools
Free update to digital paint package adds Motion Prediction filter and support for multi-monitor setups.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Viz-People releases six free models of sofas
In MAX format, V-Ray compatible, and ready for use in your commercial visualisation work.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Cloud services firm Otoy buys Refractive Software
Deal will not change roadmap or licence terms for offline version of Octane Render, says developer.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Nvidia shows new real-time fur simulation system
See 100,000 strands simulated purely on the GPU. PhysX tech to form part of Unreal Engine 4, too.
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Nvidia shows videos of new real-time fracture engine
GPU-based dynamic fracturing system will form part of APEX physics framework, says developer.
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Act-3D ships Quest3D 5.0
Luxion developer's tool for creating real-time 3D demos adds improved render framework, Newton physics.
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Blu-ray review: The Adventures of Tintin
It was overlooked at the Oscars, but Tintin's 3D debut could well be the best animated feature of the year.
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Next Limit announces RealFlow RenderKit 2.5
Free patch adds new Cinema 4D plugin, plus support for RenderMan volumetrics. Updated: now shipping!
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Jawset Visual Computing releases TurbulenceFD
As seen on Terra Nova: hybrid gaseous fluid simulator for Cinema 4D and LightWave gets full release.
Friday, March 9th, 2012
The Foundry ships Hiero
Hard-to-pigeonhole VFX shot management and review tool is "******* brilliant", say beta testers.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012