Eye candy: the 2017 Miarmy crowd simulation reel

See amazing work being created with the Maya crowd simulator, including epic VFX from Ant-Man and San Andreas.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Microsoft buys Simplygon

Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Gnomon releases Creating Props for Games Vol. 1

Discover production techniques for modeling and baking normal maps with Riot Games' Nick Reynolds.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

Basefount ships Miarmy 5.1

Update to Maya crowd simulator helps automate collision avoidance and path following in 3D space.

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Adobe chooses V-Ray as core renderer for Project Felix

V-Ray chosen as render engine for new visualisation tool aimed at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016

Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

Get Avengers animator Kiel Figgins' free Deadpool rig

Free Maya character rig includes facial controls and linked proxy rig for real-time and blocking work.

Thursday, December 29th, 2016

Gnomon releases Character Modeling for Production

Master industry-standard ZBrush, Maya and Marvelous Designer workflows with this essential four-hour tutorial.

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

cebas ships psd-manager 4.0 for 3ds Max

Major update to multi-layer PSD exporter adds support for adjustment layers, PSB files, export from Corona.

Wednesday, December 28th, 2016

Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.5

Maya cloud-creation plugin gets OpenVDB export for rendering in Arnold, V-Ray and RenderMan.

Monday, December 19th, 2016

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5.4

Real-time lighting design tool adds new ways to position area lights or virtual lights within HDRI maps.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4

Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Golaem ships Golaem PLE

New free, time-unlimited edition lets artists try the Maya crowd simulation tool before they buy. Support for Redshift also added.

Monday, December 12th, 2016