Ricoh launches $399 spherical panorama camera
The Theta captures 360-degree images in a single click - but is the quality good enough for CG pros?
Friday, September 6th, 2013
Free Resources
10 questions for... ILM's Ryan Calloway
The creature artist and veteran of Rango and Pacific Rim runs our gauntlet of tech and career questions.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Lagoa launches Lagoa 1.5
Cloud render platform adds physical sky, background rendering, option to embed scenes in web pages.
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Abvent releases Artlantis 5
Architectural renderer gets new UI, material catalog and preview options, plus tools to build VR objects.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Eye candy: RealtimeUK's War Thunder 'Heroes' teaser
Russian aerial combat MMO gets unexpectedly great trailer courtesy of UK cinematics stars.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
Eye candy: the best game trailers from Gamescom
Relive the highlights of last week with our pick of the best cinematics released at the giant games show.
Monday, August 26th, 2013
Meet FABtotum: 3D scanner, CNC mill and printer in one
Back the open-source fabricator on Indiegogo and put a mini factory on your desktop for under $1,000.
Monday, August 26th, 2013
Video: Crytek's tasty new CryEngine tech demo
Engine update shows off physically based skin shading, automated LODs, procedural GPGPU weather.
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Motiva releases Exposure Control plugin for V-Ray
Handy free plugin lets 3ds Max users simulate real-life film stocks and bleach bypass effects.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
The Lone Ranger: the best VFX you never noticed?
Forget the plot: the backdrops are out of this world. ILM explains how it created the film's CG environments.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Planetside ships Terragen 3
Updated: landscape generator gets better GI, Linux render nodes. Both commercial editions now shipping.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
The Leap Motion: control Maya by waving at your screen
Early users say both the Kinect-like controller and its Maya app are potentially powerful, if still frustrating.
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.5
Maya crowd-simulation system gets option to scale crowd agents dynamically, new auto-avoid option.
Friday, August 9th, 2013