Gnomon releases Hyper-real Insect Design DVD

New seven-hour ZBrush, Maya and V-Ray tutorial creates creepy crawlies with scientific accuracy.

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Gnomon launches 55 new online training courses

Study at the world's leading visual effects, games and design training school - from anywhere in the world.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.4

Unbiased renderer gets support for section planes, new orthographic camera, native 3ds Max integration.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

OLM Digital updates its open-source plugins

Noise Deformer updated to Maya 2013; Photoshop and After Effects antialiasing tool OLM Smoother gets new Nuke version.

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

Fabric Engine demos real-time production renderer

Final-quality, VFX-focused real-time renderer due as part of next release of Creation Platform this fall.

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

10 key tips for lighting and look development

Improve the realism of your work with these expert tips from Sony Pictures Imageworks' Cosku Turhan

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Gnomon announces new world animation course

Discover the secrets of Maya and Photoshop work in Animation from 2D to 3D: The French Touch.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Digital Frontier ships free 3ds Max Alembic importer

Import files in the new industry-standard interchange format into 3ds Max, complete with animation.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Review: HP Z820 workstation

HP's top-of-the-range Z820 is a beast, particularly for rendering. Jason Lewis benchmarks it here.

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

Pixar ships RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 and Studio 4.0

Both feature improved instancing, photon mapping and volumetrics; price of Studio edition cut by $700.

Monday, October 8th, 2012

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 3.1

Update to games texturing tool adds the option to paint seamlessly tiling textures automatically.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 4

Innovative real-time image-based lighting tool enables users to 'paint' highlights directly onto 3D models.

Monday, September 24th, 2012

OC3 Entertainment releases FaceFX 2013

Leading automated facial animation tool gets new pricing structure, new FBX pipeline for Unity and Blender.

Thursday, September 20th, 2012