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
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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
New Wacom pen saves your sketches in digital form
Doodle in your notebook with the new Wacom Inkling and have the results saved as a PSD or JPG.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Design armour for Deep Realms and win $1,000
Get your concept art into the next update of Playdom's Facebook RPG and pocket a grand in cash.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Eye candy: Next Limit's new RealFlow demo reel
See a lot of great commercials work done using the fluid simulator, plus Batman looking mopey in the rain.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Sneak peek: ZBrush 4R2's new DynaMesh feature
True digital clay comes a step nearer with Pixologic's new auto-retopology feature, due next month.
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Watch the making of Shane Acker's Plus Minus
See inside the 9 director's new short, co-created with Meni Tsirbas and students at Gnomon Studios.
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Preview: the fall's 10 biggest VFX movies
AWN runs down the list from Anonymous to Real Steel, and speculates about the first VFX-enhanced sex scene.
Monday, August 29th, 2011