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

Affordable 64-bit painting app: Blacksmith3D-Paint 4.0

Update to mid-priced painting tool also includes Projection Painting and support for layered images.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Eye candy: Eleven - new Anzovin Studio short

Hate automated call-answering services? Not half as much as this harassed space marine does...

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

TurboSquid to sell Allegorithmic 'substances'

New online store for procedural texture materials, as featured in 3ds Max and Maya 2011.

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 3.0

Update to Pixar rendering bundle adds relighting tools, support for Maya Fluid Effects and Ptex.

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Carbon Scatter for 3ds Max enters open beta

New plug-in provides the power of Vue's EcoSystem instancing technology direct inside Max.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010