Review: Dell Precision T5600 workstation

Dell's mid-range pro workstation packs a punch. Jason Lewis tests it alongside HP's high-end Z820.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Eye candy: Gnomon's 2012 Best of Term awards

Check out the best new work from students at the leading CG school - including a very bad day for Iron Man.

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

Imagination announces Series2 raytracing boards

New OpenRL cards will accelerate Caustic Visualizer real-time raytracing plugins for Max, Maya.

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Otoy ships OctaneRender standalone & Poser plugin

Standalone version of the physically based GPU renderer finally ships to join the 3ds Max and Maya plugins.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

AAA Studio to release FurryBall for 3ds Max

While you're waiting: version 3.2 of the Maya edition of the GPU renderer is out, and the price has been cut.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Enter your VFX work for the next VES Student Award

Submit your work by 30 November for a chance to win an expenses-paid trip to the Beverly Hills awards do.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

Tutorials: explore Mudbox's texturing capabilities

See how to use it with Maya with Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse and with 3ds Max by Pixel 23's Leandré Hounnake.

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Basefount announces Miarmy Commander

Maya crowd simulator gets new extension for traffic and fight scenes; plus Mac OS X and Arnold support.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Gnomon releases Hyper-real Insect Design DVD

New seven-hour ZBrush, Maya and V-Ray tutorial creates creepy crawlies with scientific accuracy.

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Gnomon launches 55 new online training courses

Study at the world's leading visual effects, games and design training school - from anywhere in the world.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.4

Unbiased renderer gets support for section planes, new orthographic camera, native 3ds Max integration.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

OLM Digital updates its open-source plugins

Noise Deformer updated to Maya 2013; Photoshop and After Effects antialiasing tool OLM Smoother gets new Nuke version.

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

Fabric Engine demos real-time production renderer

Final-quality, VFX-focused real-time renderer due as part of next release of Creation Platform this fall.

Thursday, November 1st, 2012