Watch the shortlist for Rushes Soho Shorts 2011
See (most of) the nominees for the CG-related categories in the leading festival without resorting to Google.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Download 10 free Viz-People HDRI files
Get 10 spherical HDR images at 6,000 x 2,900 pixel resolution free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Blender gets cool new retopology add-on
Turn freehand strokes and loose edges into neat all-quad meshes with Eclectiel's Bsurfaces 1.5.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
New 3ds Max script ends misery of poly pushing
Manipulate rows of edges as if they were Bezier curves with Marius Silaghi's intuitive Smooth Edges.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
thinkingParticles 5 to feature a vehicle simulator
New release of cebas's increasingly more-than-just-particles plug-in will also add support for Bullet physics.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
AAA Studio releases FurryBall 2.1 for Maya
Production-proven GPU-accelerated renderer gains support for real-time DoF, Bokeh effects, motion blur.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Friday nostalgia: mind-popping 3D art of the 1990s
Take a trip down memory lane to see 12 of the best/worst images created by people on POV-Ray.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Eye candy: Hitch
Pascal Monaco and Felix Meyer's Vertigo-inducing Hitchcock homage proves that motion graphics aren't strictly for The Birds.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Holiday project: build your own 3D printer for $500
Having a 'staycation' this year? Use the money you save to build your own fully functional RepRap printer.
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Eye candy: Defective Detective
A bungling sleuth starts to see red in Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis's killer Student Oscar-winning short.
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Gnomon releases 14-hour Scott Spencer ZBrush DVD
Introduction to ZBrush 4 possibly "the most comprehensive ZBrush training package ever developed".
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Eye candy: Eleanor
We kick off a short series on the year's best student shorts with Chloé Bury's poignant tale of the redemption of an lonely recluse.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Blu-ray review: Rango
Despite the lackluster extras, ILM's first animated feature is a grimy modern masterpiece.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011