Eye candy: Little Kaiju

What lives in Tokyo's vending machines? Cute little monsters, if you believe TWiN's new VFX short.

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Render a realistic human and win $21k in prizes

Grab the model for AXYZ Design's Lifelike 3D Human contest, render it, and win software and training.

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Luxology demos NPR Kit and XfrogPlants for modo

Updated: Cool non-photorealistic rendering add-on for modo now shipping at a special rate of $149.

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Alex Roman at work on book of The Third & The Seventh

No details yet, but there's an email address where you can preorder the book of the cult photorealistic short.

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

Imagination unveils Caustic Visualizer for Maya

New plugin based on the PowerVR Brazil SDK provides interactive raytraced previews inside Maya.

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Gnomon releases four-DVD Alex Alvarez Maya tutorial

Mammoth new release features nine hours of training on Creating Plants in Maya/Mental Ray.

Friday, July 13th, 2012

Pixar to slash price of RenderMan Studio

Version 4.0 to be merged with RenderMan for Maya, forming a single $1,300 embedded renderer.

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Abvent ships Artlantis 4.1

Free update to architectural renderer adds ISO controls, HDRI backdrops and new link to Maxwell Render.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Eye candy: the best of E3 2012

Relive the thrills of last week's CG industry jamboree with our pick of the show's best new game trailers.

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Export from Blender to Maxwell Render with BtoMW

Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

FMX 2012: We could remake 300 in real time now

Our revolutionary real-time TV pipeline could shake up movies too, says Zoic Studios' Loni Peristere.

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Imagination Technologies ships PowerVR Brazil SDK

Much-loved 3ds Max renderer now available as toolkit for developers to add raytracing to their software.

Friday, April 20th, 2012

VFX breakdown: the making of Stratego

Brain Zoo Studios dissects its pipeline for its award-winning trailer for the classic military board game.

Friday, March 23rd, 2012