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
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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
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