Umolab launches web store for ultra-realistic 3D models
Need an accurate model of a real household appliance? Check out this collection of hand-vetted assets.
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Search for "maya"
One to bookmark: The Mari Channel
Peter Aversten's texturing and look dev training blog includes videos on Maya, RenderMan... and yep, Mari.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
AAA Studio cuts educational price of FurryBall to €99
Students and teachers can now get a copy of the GPU-accelerated Maya renderer for under $130 a year.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Video: Position Based Fluids in PhysX
See impressive real-time liquids simulated using tech from future releases of Nvidia's physics engine.
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
McNeel & Associates releases Neon
Interactive viewport plugin for Rhino is first third-party tool written with the PowerVR Brazil SDK raytrace toolkit.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Matte Painting | February
Theme: Open World
1st Place: Kaioshen
2nd Place: Akim
3rd Place: ZDood
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Xsens releases mocap streaming plugin for Unity
Preview data from its inertial mocap systems directly on a character, rather than importing FBX files.
Friday, April 12th, 2013
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 3.5
Free update to the texturing tool adds live link to Photoshop, new graph profiler, better 3D preview.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
Autodesk reveals features of MotionBuilder 2014
Watch videos of the new workflow for optical marker data, pipeline APIs, Ruler tool and light-setup system.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Autodesk announces new features of Softimage 2014
Watch demos of the new camera sequencer, ICE and Syflex options - and lots of videos about CrowdFX.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Autodesk announces new features of 3ds Max 2014
Watch videos of the new crowd system, mParticles, Perspective Match and pan and zoom tools.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Otoy announces Octane Render Cloud Edition
Developer aims to allow "every single 3D app" to process render jobs in the cloud on up to 128 GPUs.
Friday, March 22nd, 2013