Otoy releases OctaneRender for Blender beta
Blender joins growing list of apps to work natively with the GPU-based renderer. Calls for Modo growing.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
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Basefount releases Miarmy 2.5
Maya crowd-simulation system gets option to scale crowd agents dynamically, new auto-avoid option.
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige creates tiny talking tiger as energy drink ad
Cult Polish studio's new spot recasts Life of Pi as not-so-safe sex advice for twentysomething party animals.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
VFX breakdown: Moo Studios' new Blue Moon spot
VFX supervisor Sebastiano D'Aprile explains how 'Brewmaster's Inspiration' blends stop-motion and painterly CG.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
moma for Mari: render Mari scenes in Modo's renderer
Jacobo Barreiro updates his two-way bridge between Modo and Maya to support The Foundry's paint package.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Anzovin Studio releases The Setup Machine for Games
New version of the Maya auto-rigging plugin now supports game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Autodesk ships FBX Review
Free DirectX 11-based viewer lets games artists review assets in a range of standard 3D file formats.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
NewTek announces ChronoSculpt
New tool for sculpting animation caches lets users refine work or "paint out" simulation errors by hand.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Golaem announces Golaem Crowd 2.5
Maya crowd-simulation system gets ability to instantiate environment models, not just skinned characters.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Dynamixyz announces Performer 7
Up-and-coming markerless facial mocap system gets new background solving and scripting options.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Tweak Software unveils RV 4.0
Image viewer and playback tool gets hardware-accelerated architecture, option to author GLSL shaders.
Monday, July 22nd, 2013