ftrack releases ftrack 2.0

Low-cost production-tracking system gets extensive overhaul, better compatibility with Nuke and Hiero.

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

DNA Research releases 3Delight for Softimage 4.0

RenderMan-compliant renderer gets new interactive relighting workflow, speed boost of up to ten times.

Wednesday, September 25th, 2013

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