Useful resource: Got Wires?
New blog devoted to good modelling practices fills the gap left by the late, great Subdivisionmodeling.com.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Latest News
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2
Game-focused texturing app gains vector paint, CrazyBump-style toolkit, OS X support and $350 Lite edition.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Crytek releases free CryEngine 3 SDK
Use the same game engine as Crysis 2 in your non-commercial or educational projects.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Eye candy: For The King
A coachman goes through some serious job-description issues after his boss decides to dispense with the horse in this sparky new short.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
New golem-making machine creates instant crowds
Avoid tedious CG simulation as Mikros Image's revolutionary tech breathes life into inanimate clay.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Cebas demos finalRender 4GPU
User footage from the expo floor shows GPU acceleration in action in the upcoming 3ds Max renderer.
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Turn your iPhone into a facial scanner: Part Two
Don't like iFace3D? Trimensional offers an alternative way to capture your face and save it as an OBJ file.
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: watch the five-minute rundown
All the highlights from the world's premier CG show, condensed into a handy coffee-break-sized info burst
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Mudbox's new Gigatexel engine
User video shows textures being painted in real time on a model with over 1,000 2k maps already applied.
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Autodesk releases fun free iPad sculpting app
123D Sculpt offers basic sculpting and photo-based texturing tools. No option to export the model, though.
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: see the new tools in Softimage 2012.5
Watch Autodesk's movies of the new modelling and simulation tools in the upcoming Advantage Pack update.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Imagination shows off Brazil 3.0 beta
Render engine returns from a string of buyouts rebuilt and repositioned as an SDK for interactive raytracing.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: peek under the hood of the new Houdini
Check out Side Effects' videos of the turbo-charged new geometry engine and simulation tools in Houdini 12.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011