Render Rocket readies LaunchPad

New tool to let users submit jobs to firm's cloud-based render farm from inside 3ds Max, Maya or Cinema 4D.

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

PipelineFX ships Qube! 6.5

Better cost-reporting tools in the renderfarm manager turn your 'money faucet' into a responsive pipeline.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.0

Renderfarm manager gets intuitive new graph view, MongoDB backend, built-in cloud management tools.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2013's technical papers

Our pick of the best CG research covers hair capture, smoke sims - and even fixes for bad handwriting.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Q&A: Prometheus concept artist David 'vyle' Levy

The master artist tells us about his work, his creativity tips, and SB Explore, his upcoming art workshop.

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Videos: new advances in markerless facial capture

See two impressive new tech demos: one from ILM and one from Egypt's Snappers Systems.

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 3.5

Free update to the texturing tool adds live link to Photoshop, new graph profiler, better 3D preview.

Friday, March 29th, 2013

Otoy announces Octane Render Cloud Edition

Developer aims to allow "every single 3D app" to process render jobs in the cloud on up to 128 GPUs.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

VES calls for increased Californian VFX subsidies

But Visual Effects Society open letter to Governor Jerry Brown attracts criticism from other campaigners.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Epic Games ships Carapace

Download this neat little free tool for creating perspective grids, written by environment artist Warren Marshall.

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Get Genesis figures into Poser with DSON Importer

Export DAZ Studio 4's next-gen figures to Poser with this (temporarily) free new plugin.

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

PipelineFX ships Qube! 6.4

Renderfarm management system gets new reporting and admin tools, plus MobileView smartphone app.

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Digital Domain files for bankruptcy

Legendary effects house sells out to private investment firm; looking to secure jobs of LA-based staff.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012