Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.1

Renderfarm manager gets better scheduling, standalone Python API, V-Ray distributed rendering option.

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Adobe adds 3D printing support to Photoshop CC

New Creative Cloud update also adds useful-looking Perspective Warp tool and support for linked Smart Objects.

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla Render

Updated with more details: Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used by Prime Focus on Total Recall.

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

Tyroe lets you rank your CG skills against other job hunters

Sign up for the beta of this innovative portfolio-creation and review service from the team behind cgCoach.com.

Monday, November 25th, 2013

Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6

Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.

Monday, November 11th, 2013

Faceware Technologies ships Analyzer 2.0, Retargeter 4.0

New Lite editions of the markerless facial mocap tools cut the price of a complete system to $1,190 per seat.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

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