Get animation tool TAFA free

Veteran morph-based facial animation tool available as a free download. The UI shows its age, but many users still swear by it.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Download two lightweight free Maya cartoon character rigs

Get Squiggly Rigs' expressive free Maya character rigs, designed for educational and demo reel use.

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019

Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro

Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

New tool Masterpiece Motion lets you rig characters in VR

Intuitive new app lets users place bones and paint skin weights in VR, using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5

Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".

Thursday, May 9th, 2019

Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

See hotly tipped short 'One Small Step' at Gnomon in May

Discover how ex-Disney artists TAIKO Studios created their debut short at a free event at the school's LA campus.

Thursday, April 19th, 2018

Weeds: the story of an indie short made by Disney artists

Discover how artists working in their personal time created a 3D short using the same tech as a Disney feature.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

Review: Iray for 3ds Max

Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

Nvidia unveils the Quadro M2000

New Maxwell-based 4GB workstation graphics card is expected to sell for under $500.

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

Artomatix launches Materialize

Cool new cloud-based service uses an AI-driven system to tile, extend or 'mutate' game textures automatically.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

Faceware unveils new markerless mocap solutions

Updates due to firm's Analyzer and Retargeter facial mocap software, along with a new free PLE edition.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Get free Maya shader library building tool BlissLib

Download TD Einar Gabbassov's free framework for building custom libraries of Maya, mental ray and RenderMan shaders.

Friday, November 20th, 2015