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

Autodesk lays off 500 staff

Developer cuts just under 7% of its work force, but continues to recruit for cloud and mobile services.

Sunday, August 26th, 2012

Blu-ray review: The Lorax

Illumination's visuals for the latest Dr. Seuss tie-in are lovely, but the moral is not. And oh, the songs...

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.5 for Maya

Updated with neat new demo video: sub-$1,000 crowd simulator now batch renders jobs much faster.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

PipelineFX releases Qube! MobileView monitoring app

Free tool enables users to view renderfarms remotely or retry dropped frames.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Frozen Flame cuts price of MindTex to just $15

You wait years for an affordable map creation tool aimed at indie game artists, then two come along at once.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

ArtVPS adds cloud rendering to Shaderlight 2.2

Send jobs to the cloud directly from within SketchUp with the plugin's new one-click online rendering system.

Friday, July 6th, 2012

Meet Felix: Maxwell Render rendering in the cloud

Interesting online service lets users create physically accurate renders from a low-spec Windows laptop.

Thursday, June 28th, 2012