CL3VER rolls out CL3VER 2.1
Updated: preview interactive demos created with the cloud-based 3D platform as Flash or WebGL.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Free Resources
Exocortex launches V-Ray cloud rendering in Clara.io
Embed interactive V-Ray streams from the browser-based 3D modelling tool into your web pages .
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2014
Fluid simulator adds viscosity, new Ocean Force daemon, support for the Arnold renderer. Price down too.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Eyeon ships Fusion 7
First full update to the compositing package in five years throws in the $995 Dimension stereo tools for free.
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Stream facial mocap data from a Kinect live into Unity
Updated plugin for the Faceshift markerless facial capture system offers new real-time workflow.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Autodesk buys the Bitsquid game engine
Technology from next-gen console and PC engine to be used to create new real-time 3D visualisation tools.
Monday, June 9th, 2014
Eye candy: the world's best student CG art
Six Gnomon graduates won prizes at this year's CG Student Awards. See all of their winning work here.
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Leap Motion controller to track individual joint motion
Free update to $80 gesture controller will deliver more precise mocap data to indie hand-tracking systems.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Esri ships CityEngine 2014.0
Powerful procedural city-generation tool gets new plugins integrating it with Maya and Unity.
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
RandomControl ships Arion for 3ds Max 2.70
Big update to unbiased renderer boosts speed, ups maximum render size, adds new relighting workflow.
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Crytek releases CryEngine on Steam for $9.90/month
Cutting-edge game engine now available to any dev for under a tenner - and no cut of the profits.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
CG Cookie to launch first Blender-only asset store
Blender Market to enable pro users to sell their tools and scenes, with a cut going to Blender development.
Thursday, May 29th, 2014