Allegorithmic halves price of Substance Designer
Well, almost. Price of Max, Maya and Unity-friendly parametric texturing toolkit cut from $990 to $590.
Friday, June 1st, 2012
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Faceware launches facial animation tools line-up
Buy the facial technology used on Benjamin Button and Red Dead Redemption in off-the-shelf form.
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Chaos Group celebrates ten years of V-Ray
Developer marks the renderer's first decade with special anniversary website and new online giveaways.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Luxion ships KeyShot 3.2
Update to real-time rendering tool improves materials workflow, adds support for Maya 2013 scenes.
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Imagination kills off Brazil r/s 2 for 3ds Max
Developer stops work on renderer and advises users to look for other solutions, but new SDK unaffected.
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Q&A: John Griffith, director, Cinedev
The founder of Fox's previz wing discusses its unique workflow, and where the industry will head next.
Monday, May 14th, 2012
FMX 2012: The Hugo shot that nearly killed us
Off-the-cuff decisions during previz can come back to haunt you later, warns VFX supervisor Rob Legato.
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
FMX 2012: We could remake 300 in real time now
Our revolutionary real-time TV pipeline could shake up movies too, says Zoic Studios' Loni Peristere.
Friday, May 11th, 2012
CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.3
Update to Maya/mental ray toolkit adds new colour bleed SSS shader, support for SprayTrace renderer.
Friday, May 11th, 2012
One to try: appleseed
It may be yet another open source physically based renderer - but it's being written specifically with production in mind.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Gnomon releases two-hour Pixar lighting masterclass
New DVD sees Pixar Lighting TD Jeremy Vickery reveal the principles behind Efficient Cinematic Lighting.
Monday, May 7th, 2012
modo 601 adds support for 3Dconnexion devices
First modo 601 Service Pack adds certified support for the entire range of 3Dconnexion's 3D mice.
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Autodesk reshuffles Softimage dev team
Development of Softimage moves to Singapore. Original Montreal-based team reassigned to work on Maya VFX.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012