Autodesk to discontinue Softimage?

Now confirmed: the upcoming 2015 release of Softimage will be the last. Product support runs until 2016.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 3.1

Maya crowd-simulation system gets new visual debugging system, support for Arnold's mtoa 1.x plugin.

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio

LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 4.1

Games texturing tool gets new baking options and ability to group nodes. Eight new video tutorials, too.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Autodesk rolls out Autodesk Character Generator

Free online service lets you create rigged characters in your browser, then download in MB or FBX format.

Thursday, February 20th, 2014

Q&A: Oblivion concept artist Thom Tenery

The top architectural designer looks back on a career that spans malls, Doom 4 and Hollywood movies.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Watch five great VES Award-winning student shorts

It's five wins in a row for Germany's Filmakademie. See them all here, including 2014 winner Rugbybugs.

Friday, February 14th, 2014

Eye candy: Decepticon Truck Crawl

Watch Digital Domain animator Kiel Figgins' ace Transformers homage, then check out the VFX breakdowns.

Monday, February 10th, 2014

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max

It's out of beta! Read more about version 3.0's render speed boosts, new features, and new pricing here.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.1

Renderfarm manager gets better scheduling, standalone Python API, V-Ray distributed rendering option.

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Damien Bataille releases DeeX VRay Arsenal 1.5

Updated: VFX Lighting TD's new plugin speeds up common tasks for rendering Maya scenes in V-Ray.

Friday, January 24th, 2014

New Gnomon DVD shows how this 3D World cover was made

The Making of 'Totem' sets out how the magazine illustration was created in ZBrush, Maya and SpeedTree.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Solid Angle releases trial version of Arnold

Developer's new website makes top raytrace renderer available to small studios. Rent it for just $8.50 a day.

Friday, January 17th, 2014