Autodesk software now free to schools worldwide

3ds Max, Maya, et al now free to colleges worldwide, as well as individual students and teachers.

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Corona Renderer team reveals price, release date

And its 'Fair SaaS' pricing for the much-anticipated 3ds Max renderer sounds a lot like a dig at Adobe.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Autodesk to go subscription-only by 2016

Perpetual software licences to be phased out over the next 12-24 months, leaving only maintenance and rental options.

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

Gnomon releases six-hour indirect lighting masterclass

Frederic Durand's Final Gather in Maya & mental ray explores fixes for blotches and flicker when using FG.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

Ephere ships Ornatrix V3

3ds Max hair tool adds option to model hair with standard poly tools, improved Nitrous viewport preview.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3

Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

SolidAngle releases Arnold for Houdini

New Houdini to Arnold plugin now available to download alongside the Maya and Softimage versions.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4

3D clothing creation tool used on Tintin and The Hobbit adds FBX import, new Quadrangulate option.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Corona Renderer dev team post first Cinema 4D build

Free alpha of the promising renderer includes instancing, basic support for native C4D materials and lights.

Monday, September 8th, 2014

Gnomon releases full guide to character animation

Discover Guardians of the Galaxy animator In-Ah Roediger's workflow in Performance & Acting: Creating Believable Characters.

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Gnomon ships superheroic character design training

Sculpt and render the Silver Surfer with Marvel artist Josh Herman's ZBrush, Maya & KeyShot tutorial.

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular

Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 3.3

Maya crowd simulator adds support for blendshape animaion - as shown in a rather endearing demo video.

Saturday, August 16th, 2014