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

NeuroSystems releases new sub-$50 organic art tool

Substance Classic enables users to create 3D art by natural selection, not polygon pushing.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010