Next Limit updates Maxwell Render plug-ins

3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and LightWave plug-ins all now compatible with Maxwell Fire interactive renderer.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Cinesite calls for applicants to 2011 internship scheme

Got experience with Maya, Houdini, Nuke or Shake? Get your foot on the VFX career ladder here.

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Interview: LightWave VP and Avatar veteran Rob Powers

The man behind Avatar's virtual art department talks about his role in the development of LightWave 10.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Colimo 1.0: adjust materials in renders in real time

Innovative new post-production tool enables users to modify lights and textures in renders on the fly.

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

New plug-in puts cloud rendering inside Blender

Developer of innovative GreenButton plug-in now working on versions for 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Free Maxwell update adds interactive renderer

Maxwell Render 2.5 gains Maxwell Fire preview renderer, updates to subsurface scattering and scripting.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Review: AMD's ATI FirePro professional GPUs

Jason Lewis puts AMD's latest pro graphics cards through their paces. Which one is right for you?

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Career advice: Jeff Campbell, SpinVFX

The VFX supervisor and Fight Club veteran gives his advice on breaking into the compositing industry.

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Cinema 4D to get mental ray and iray renderers

New third-party add-on brings power of mental images render engines to Cinema users - for a price.

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Round-up: new 3ds Max plug-ins, tools and shaders

(Almost) everything a Max artist could need, from vehicle rigging to complete virtual reality add-ons

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Pixar cuts 40% off price of RenderMan Pro Server

Cost of industry-standard render tool slashed to $2,000. RenderMan for Maya pricing unaffected.

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Win a copy of V-Ray or an Autodesk Creation Suite

Submit portfolio work to 3D World magazine's current art contests and win copies of leading software.

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Interview: new 3D mouse developer Valentin Heun

Promising new 3D controller to support Max, Maya, Cinema 4D on launch next year, says developer.

Friday, November 5th, 2010