How Gnomon is reinventing online training

Gnomon's new live online courses make its legendary VFX tuition available anywhere in the world.

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Watch the classes from Autodesk University 2012

Lots of free tutorials for 3ds Max and Maya, but only a couple for Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage.

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Eye candy: R'ha

It's aliens vs Skynet in Kaleb Lechowski's incredible one-man short, created in seven months in Blender and Maya.

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Autodesk to raise cost of upgrades for its software

If you're using one of the last three releases, at any rate. Some SRPs and maintenance prices also up.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation

See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Download 140 Xfrog plant models for free

Get 31 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX

Much-anticipated genre-breaking 2D/3D package priced at $2,995: download the free PLE version now.

Monday, December 24th, 2012

Allegorithmic creates $99 Substance Designer licence

Identical to the full $590 edition, but intended for non-commercial use by hobbyists and games modders.

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Nvidia previews new Light Path Expressions in iray

New feature works like AOVs in other software for 'instant relighting' and stylised render effects.

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 2.0

Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

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