NewTek begins shipping LightWave 11.5
Well-received update adds Genoma rigging system, better After Effects interoperability, nice modelling tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Free Resources
Imagination ships Caustic Series2 raytracing boards
Innovative new dedicated hardware gives real-time raytracing for the price of a high-end pro GPU.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Eye candy: Nvidia's Hawken PhysX trailer
See the new APEX Turbulence system in use to create swirly effects for the free-to-play mech shooter.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 4.1
New Live link to 3ds Max lets users design custom image-based light rigs and see results in V-Ray RT.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Video tutorials: using Panel Loops in ZBrush 4R5
Watch Michael Pavlovich sculpt complex hard-surface models in Pixologic's new free online training.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
One to bookmark: LayerPaint
Find free tutorials and galleries on 3DTotal's new sister site for things Photoshop and Painter-related.
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Autodesk updates meshmixer08
Updated: Free modelling tool gets neat new option to show if models will stand up when 3D printed.
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Mixamo releases Mecanim Animation Store plugin
New Unity add-on lets developers access Mixamo's motion library from directly within the software.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Watch the classes from Autodesk University 2012
Lots of free tutorials for 3ds Max and Maya, but only a couple for Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Video Copilot releases Element 3D 1.5
Free update to the plugin adds support for rendering 3D animations in real time inside After Effects.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
RandomControl previews relighting in Arion 2.4
Physically based hybrid CPU/GPU renderer to export new 'LightMixer' layers without raising render times.
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Eye candy: Exodus
Cool glows rule supreme in Magnus Östergren's unique freeform short, created with After Effects' Mir plugin.
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Watch Next Limit's RealFlow 2013 preview event
Updated with another new video: see the new FLIP solver, scene graphs, and support for Alembic and Field3D.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013