Autodesk announces Maya LT 2016

Indie-game-focused version of Maya to get new brush-based sculpting and UV workflows, PBR shading.

Monday, March 2nd, 2015

Autodesk to go subscription only on 1 February 2016

Firm to phase out perpetual licences of 3ds Max, Maya in favour of monthly or yearly pay-as-you-go pricing.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

VFX breakdowns of the month: January 2015

Check out the month's best tech demos, including Tippett Studio, Unit Image and RealtimeUK.

Saturday, January 31st, 2015

Otoy unveils four new versions of OctaneRender

Updated: New video shows the GPU renderer inside Houdini. Nuke, MotionBuilder and UE4 to come.

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Amplify Creations releases Multi-Tile UV Bake Tool

Inexpensive 3ds Max plugin speeds up the process of baking multi-tile textures for Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush.

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Review: HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation

Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click

Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Wacom announces Cintiq 27QHD and Companion 2

New pen displays to offer reduced weight, better connectivity - and a whopping 2.5K max resolution.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

Gnomon releases Making Frankenstein's Monster

Recreate the creature in Mudbox and Maya with Treyarch character artist Peter Zoppi's full five-hour guide.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Sigrasoft ships WaxLab 3d sculpting plugin for Maya

Updated: Stefaan Sorensen's new plugin puts Mudbox-style tools right inside Maya. Now available on Linux.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

Amplify Creations unveils Amplify Texture 2 for Unity

Updated: Virtual texturing plugin lets you use 4 Terapixel textures inside Unity Pro. Free public trial out now.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

Eye candy: Gnomon's new Best of Term awards

See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.

Friday, July 4th, 2014