fmx 2011: Wednesday news

Our latest show report rises from the murk of industry politics to discover why the future is bright for open-source production tools.

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Q&A: Erwan Maigret, director, The Bakery

We quiz the co-founder of the Tech Oscar-winning firm on its innovative new relighting and shading tools.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Golaem to release new high-end crowd simulator

Golaem Crowd aims to provide simpler alternative to Massive for complex visual effects shots.

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Okino ships Inventor 2012-ready file conversion apps

Export your Inventor 2012 files to Max, Maya, Softimage, Cinema 4D or LightWave for rendering.

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Eye candy: the making of the Call of Juarez trailer

VFX house yU+co uses much-hyped new MotionScan facial mocap system on Ubisoft's gritty shooter.

Friday, April 15th, 2011

e-on 'pre-releases' Vue 9.5

New versions of Infinite and xStream available to subscription customers; gain interactive texture placement and cloud-editing tools.

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Read early user reviews of Autodesk 2012 products

3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Mudbox 2012 now shipping: read our pick of the early feedback here.

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Eye candy: Immersive Cocoon "2011"

Keir Dullea reprises lead role from 2001: A Space Odyssey for Tino Schaedler-designed futuristic short.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

New app records camera moves from your iPhone

Install CameraMan for Maya and turn your iPhone 4 into an handheld animation controller.

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

mental ray 3.9 released

Updated renderer adds native particle rendering, plus improved hair rendering and motion blur.

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Videos: Autodesk's GDC demos of its 2012 products

See a complete set of 30-minute demos of 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Mudbox and MotionBuilder 2012

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Q&A: Autodesk's Project Skyline team

Can this platform for games artists to view animation changes direct in the engine become the industry's next big thing?

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Preview: check out the new features in Smoke 2012

Autodesk's Mac-only editorial finishing system gets new 3D lighting system, Flame FX toolset.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011