Tech preview: new animation features in Maya
New Autodesk teaser video shows motion trails and timing beads to control animation in the viewport.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
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Eye candy: Dead Island's subtly disturbing cinematic
Blood, guts and gore made more creepy by Memento-style flashbacks and classical score.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
New version of emFlock available for Softimage 2011
Smart flocking solver adds support for multithreading, new compounds for speed control and morphing.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Get Kromath: new portable chromakeying iPhone app
Neat tool enables users to create basic on-set precomps from live footage on iPhones or iPads.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Pixologic releases 30-day trial version of ZBrush 4
Mac users, relax: this time, it's out on both Windows and OS X.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Facial tech behind Splice coming to online avatars
Image Metrics buys avatar-creation firm Big Stage, aims to launch new consumer product later this year.
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Could you sculpt a monster a day for 20 days?
Artist Simon 'Spiderzero' Lee certainly thinks he can. Check out his impressive ongoing efforts here.
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Download the scene file for the new Erykah Badu video
Watch Beeple's video for Gone Baby, Don't Be Long, then download the Cinema 4D source file.
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Autodesk to acquire Scaleform Corporation
Autodesk signs deal to acquire games UI tools and middleware developer for a cool $36 million.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Get complete MAXScript 101 training course free online
MAXScript creator John Wainwright releases his celebrated video training course to 3ds Max users.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Eye candy: awesome new Digic Pictures showreel
New reel from cinematics specialist includes mouth-watering snippets from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Dragon Age 2.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Unity 3.2 adds new animated water, depth of field effects
Latest update to game engine adds waves, foam generated at shorelines, Bokeh effects.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Eye candy: Grzegorz Jonkajtys' The 3rd Letter
View the Siggraph prize winner's bleak, beautiful VFX short, then sign up for his new 'making of' session.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011