Useful resource: the MintViz 3ds Max/V-Ray blog
Well-presented new blog provides solutions to common rendering and visualisation problems.
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Free Resources
IGDA launches campaign against Amazon Appstore
Terms of new online store enable Amazon to maximise market share at expense of game devs' profits, warns trade body.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Blender 2.57 ships
Popular open-source 3D package reaches milestone first production-stable release in the 2.5x series.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Deadline to update Shotgun automatically
Leading render-management tool to integrate seamlessly with leading project-management software.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
NewTek releases details of LightWave 10.1
Forthcoming point update adds new off-axis stereo camera rig, extensions to VPR display.
Monday, April 11th, 2011
e-on 'pre-releases' Vue 9.5
New versions of Infinite and xStream available to subscription customers; gain interactive texture placement and cloud-editing tools.
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Thinkbox Software announces Deadline 5.0
Renderfarm-management system gets new options for global farms and monitoring jobs by iPhone.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Chaos Group announces beta of V-Ray for Maya 2.0
Free beta program brings GPU-accelerated rendering to Maya users. Full release later this month.
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Get an(i)ma: a crowd sim system for just $339
It's specifically designed for architectural visualisation use, and works with 3ds Max and Cinema 4D.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Joe Alter to ship corrective sculpting plug-in for Maya
Shave and a Haircut veteran releases free beta of LipService hybrid sculpting/animation tool.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Thea Render hybrid engine gets commercial release
Innovative - and inexpensive - hybrid biased/unbiased renderer gets first commercial release
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Video: Check out the new features in Mudbox 2012
3D paint package to gain support for Ptex format, large production data sets, character posing workflow.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Stylized Character Modeling for Production with Alessandro Baldasseroni
Awesome new character modeling training available for download.
Friday, February 25th, 2011