Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp

V-Ray for SketchUp 1.6 beta becomes full-point release, adding proxies, V-Ray RT, need for dongle.

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4

Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max

Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.

Thursday, September 12th, 2013

Q&A: Dylan Cole

The top concept artist explains his workflow - and reveals why listening to metal can help your matte work.

Monday, September 9th, 2013

How to recreate Gollum with four consumer camcorders

Watch Fabrice Visserot's amazing homebrew mocap set-up recreate a key scene from The Two Towers.

Thursday, August 29th, 2013

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

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