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
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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