Master SynthEyes tracking for production

Deadpool artist Kevin Bolivar's new Gnomon tutorial demystifies object and camera tracking for VFX work.

Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU

Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Review: Nvidia Titan RTX

Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Shotgun gets new integrations for After Effects, Jira, Unity

New After Effects and Jira Bridge plugins for the production tracking system due out at GDC next week.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service

Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo

Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

Download over 100 free Arnold materials from Visualact

Get 117 metal, plastic and ceramic materials as Maya scene files with 2,048px textures. Commercial use.

Sunday, February 24th, 2019

Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin

New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.

Friday, February 22nd, 2019

Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Luxion ships KeyShot 8.2

Latest update to the renderer adds the option to pause offline renders, better support for Alembic files, and network rendering on Linux.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2019

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0

Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Download Maxviz's Interactive Tools for 3ds Max for free

Starbreeze Studios artist Maxi Vazquez's neat free 3ds Max scripts speed up common modelling tasks.

Monday, January 28th, 2019

Master Realistic Dog Grooming for Production with XGen

Image Engine grooming artist Jordan Soler's new Gnomon tutorial provides a complete guide to Maya's fur toolset.

Saturday, January 26th, 2019