Expert advice: weapon designer Paul Ozzimo
The creator of Star Trek's Phasers and Men in Black's De-Atomizer discusses the art of gun design.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
Free Resources
Craft Animations releases Craft CameraFx
New MotionBuilder plugin lets users pilot realistic virtual camera moves with a mouse or Xbox controller.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Autodesk ships FBX Review for Mac and iOS devices
Free asset-review tool comes to Macs and iPads on top of Windows; adds support for geometry caches.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Gnomon ships new Gavriil Klimov concept art training
Design Techniques for 3D Concept Art sets out cutting-edge workflow in 3ds Max, Keyshot and Photoshop.
Friday, May 9th, 2014
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.2 for 3ds Max
Fluid simulation system gets internal self-illumination, simulation morphing controls, PRT and OpenVDB support.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Autodesk shakes up effects and finishing tools line-up
Updated: Smoke 2015 now shipping on a pay-as-you-go-only basis. Flame 2015 family also available.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Create 3D scenes by talking about them with Text-to-3D
Free cloud-based service generates simple storyboard-type images from users' plain-English instructions.
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
Teach your kids modelling with Blox 3D
Free iOS, Android and Windows app lets 4-to-8-year-olds create simple block-based 3D models.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Blender to get GPU-based OpenSubdiv support
Video: GPU-enabled implementation of Pixar's subdivision surface libraries coming in Blender 2.72.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Act-3D unveils Lumion 4.5
Real-time architectural rendering tool gets improved shadows; options to merge elements between scenes.
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
Red Giant unveils Universe online plugin library
Updated: Over 30 free After Effects, Premiere, FCP X and Motion plugins. Premium membership also now live.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 3
Now shipping: Unique digital painting app to get improved Photoshop integration, Wacom tablet support.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Next Limit to cut price of RealFlow
RealFlow 2014 will add new $2,500 node-locked licence type and make Realflow RenderKit free to use.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014