VFX breakdown: the making of Stratego
Brain Zoo Studios dissects its pipeline for its award-winning trailer for the classic military board game.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
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Sneak peek: iray rendering in 3ds Max
See what Max's GPU-accelerated render engine can do - if you have monstrously powerful hardware.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 1.4
Artist-friendly Maya crowd simulator gains support for mental ray rendering, new instancing tools.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
The Foundry releases Mari 1.4v3
Update to the paint app adds texture replication options, navigation presets to mimic Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Sneak peek: CAT tools and Bokeh effects in 3ds Max
See character animation controllers in use on non-character objects, and funky viewport depth of field effects.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
e-on software ships Ozone 6
Atmospheric plugin for all major DCC apps gains new cloud-editing tools and improved render speed.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Review: HP Z210 workstation
HP′s entry-level pro workstation is a powerful beast in its own right, as Jason Lewis's benchmarks reveal.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Cloud services firm Otoy buys Refractive Software
Deal will not change roadmap or licence terms for offline version of Octane Render, says developer.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Next Limit announces RealFlow RenderKit 2.5
Free patch adds new Cinema 4D plugin, plus support for RenderMan volumetrics. Updated: now shipping!
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's updated Nitrous viewport
See the Grab Viewport command outperforming a software render when creating a preview animation.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Luxology talks modo 601 and life beyond DCC
Explosions and robots are sexy, but the bigger prize is CAD to ad, says company co-founder Brad Peebler.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new MassFX physics system
New video shows real-time simulation of rigid bodies and mCloth - but is it GPU-accelerated?
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
See Arconyx's Kenny Roy animate for 24 hours live
All part of the Kickstarter campaign for his short, The Little Painter, but you'll need to be quick to catch it.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012