Expert advice: Marvel character artist Josh Herman
The creator of Iron Man's iconic suit explains his workflow, and his tips for making retopology less painful.
Monday, June 30th, 2014
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Five technologies to watch: appleseed
Today, a production-ready physically based renderer with one of the most beautiful demo shorts ever created.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Five technologies to watch: Redshift
Our week of cool tools kicks off with a 'ludicrously fast' GPU-based renderer for Maya and Softimage.
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
CG Channel is on holiday this week
Normal news coverage resumes on Monday 30 June. Find out what will be happening on the site until then.
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
Faceshift 2014 ships
Kinect-based facial scanning and markerless mocap tool gets quicker setup, improved tracking quality.
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Clean up point cloud data from 3D scans with Sparta
Updated: back the new Indiegogo campaign to get the pro versions of the particle sculpting app for less.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
CL3VER rolls out CL3VER 2.1
Updated: preview interactive demos created with the cloud-based 3D platform as Flash or WebGL.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Expert advice: Oz animator In-Ah Roediger
The VES Award nominee runs through her favourite tools in Maya, and her tips for young animators.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Stream facial mocap data from a Kinect live into Unity
Updated plugin for the Faceshift markerless facial capture system offers new real-time workflow.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Leap Motion controller to track individual joint motion
Free update to $80 gesture controller will deliver more precise mocap data to indie hand-tracking systems.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Eye candy: Miarmy's cool VFX crowds reel
See some amazing shots created in the Maya crowd-simulation system from studios all over the world.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 3
3ds Max and Maya shattering and destruction tool gets new preview mode, extra controls, speed boost.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014