Eye candy: Loom
Awesomely photorealistic VFX short finally gets a Vimeo release. Arachnophobes: be very afraid...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
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Interview: Alex Roman, The Third & Seventh
Chaos Group posts Q&A with the leading 3ds Max artist about his award-winning short and recent Silestone commercial.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Q&A: Erwan Maigret, director, The Bakery
We quiz the co-founder of the Tech Oscar-winning firm on its innovative new relighting and shading tools.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Maxwell Render gains plug-in support for bonzai3d
Physically accurate renderer gains native support for AutoDesSys's concept modelling package.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Videos: Autodesk reveals new features in Max 2012
Update to feature Nitrous viewport, start of unified physics system, new LSCM UV unwrap tools.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Show report: Animex 2011
The UK's premier CG festival drew as much on the power of creativity as the potential of new technology, reports Jim Thacker.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
SHOT Pro offers real-time rendering in the cloud
Bunkspeed's photorealistic renderer uses mental images' RealityServer platform to bring renders online.
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Q&A: Alex Sandri, Maya/mental ray guru
He spent ten years hunting bugs in the Maya/mental ray pipeline - but his new online masterclass will spare you that pain.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
SB2 ships new real-time SketchUp radiosity engine
Preview radiosity renders within SketchUp in real time with the $160 Render[in] plug-in.
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Eye candy: Marek Denko's 'dirty, shiny' retro reel
Legendary CG artist puts some of his most famous images into motion for slick new retrospective.
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Review: Exotique 6
This 200-page collection of digital character art may be Ballistic's best yet, enthuses Fernando Caire.
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Get over 100 hi-res female reference images for free
Join Ten24 on Facebook and download 186MB of reference images, plus some very good character tutorials.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Eos Systems releases PhotoModeler 2010
Image-based modelling app now optimised for multi-core CPUs; price of Scanner edition cut by $100.
Friday, October 29th, 2010