Big Buck Bunny stars in 3Dconnexion mouse ad
Open-source movie mascot comes out of retirement to endorse native Blender support in 3D input devices.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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Siggraph 2011: Autodesk inks licensing deal with Disney
Gains five years' exclusive access to XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology used on Bolt and Tangled.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Vicon demos 'mobile mocap' cameras
New lipstick-sized cameras could make facial capture as portable as with markerless capture systems.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Eye candy: cool new Houdini 2011 demo reel
Watch a range of things exploded, deformed or transformed in Houdini from recent games and movies.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Pixar unveils RenderMan for Maya 5.0
Forthcoming update to overhaul raytracing and add 'physically plausible' shading, radiosity cache.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Maya to get native Bullet physics
New Advantage Pack also adds support for the Alembic data interchange format, new Node Editor.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: videos of the upcoming 3ds Max update
Check out State Sets and iray running in an ActiveShade window - both due in the new Advantage Pack.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Autodesk unveils new Advantage Packs
Subscriber-only updates to Mudbox, Softimage and the creative finishing tools to ship by late September.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: cineSync goes browser-based
Review your shots from any computer, anywhere in the world, with the new cineSync Online service.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Shotgun Software unveils Shotgun 3.0
Asset-management system gets streamlined new UI; integration with Rush and cineSync Online to come.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Get TreeSketch 2.0: free tree-generation iPad app
Draw the outline of a tree freehand, adjust its form and texture, then export the result as an FBX file.
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Pixologic posts tantalising new ZBrush 4R2 teaser
Upcoming free update to feature better Booleans, array tools and Sculptris-style workflow?
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Lollipop Shaders ships new free RenderMan shaders
Download the new choppy ocean and skin subsurface scatter shaders from its online library.
Friday, August 5th, 2011