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
Free Resources
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
Get the new unlimited-use trial version of finalRender
Output is watermarked, but its functionality is identical to the full version of finalRender 3.5 SE.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
GroBoto 3 gets real-time Boolean editing features
New release positions funky organic art tool as a 'more pragmatic' general-purpose modelling tool.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
OptiTrack announces two sub-$2,000 mocap systems
Optical mocap firm to show two new budget out-of-the-box tracking systems at GDC.
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Di-O-Matic releases sub-$1,500 facial mocap system
New Maskerad system promises to extract detailed facial performances from a single reference video.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Tech preview: TopoGun 2.0
Check out these new feature videos for the promising low-cost standalone retopology package.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Review: Digital Painting Techniques Volume 2
3DTotal's latest book repeats a familiar format. Lucky it also repeats the magic, says Fernando Caire.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
View a full episode from VES Award-nominated anime
Producer of Cat Shit One releases first episode online for free, and appeals for fan support.
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Mari 1.2 now shipping
Texturing tool gets new mirror function, fractal noise shaders and Python integration - but no official support for ATI GPUs yet.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011