5 killer tips for sculpting believable creatures
Read sculptor Steve Lord's advice for sculpting better creatures: from real animals to mythical beasts.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Search for "you"
See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8
Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Pixel Splincher releases Bricolage for iOS
Neat new app puts a complete, HD-ready node-based compositing toolkit on your iPad or iPhone.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Gnomon releases Figure Fundamentals Volume 1
New three-hour video by figurative painter Van Arno provides a boot camp in anatomy drawing skills.
Saturday, July 18th, 2015
See Anatomy Lab: Designing Creatures for Film
Free event at Gnomon's Hollywood campus on Saturday 25 July offers four hours of practical anatomy tips.
Friday, July 17th, 2015
Brekel Pro PointCloud 2 and Body 2 apps released
Updated: Kinect-based mocap tools now support Oculus Rift. New free script for viewing the point cloud data in Unity, too.
Friday, July 17th, 2015
Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 7
Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
Andrew Hazelden releases RocketComp for Maya
Handy new plugin automatically builds a compositing project from render output in 10 leading 2D apps.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
E-on software releases LumenRT 2015.5 line-up
Update to real-time visualisation tools boosts playback performance, adds integration with PlantFactory.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
FXhome releases Hitfilm 3 Express for free
Get a neat free edition of the editing, compositing and VFX tool. Limited to 1080p export, but licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Hans Godard releases Switch Constraint for Maya
Switch a driven object between driver objects at a mouse click with the Naughty Dog TD's handy plugin.
Saturday, July 11th, 2015
Gnomon releases Syd Mead's Airship Arrival
Two-hour training video shows how the legendary Blade Runner concept designer paints a futuristic airship.
Friday, July 10th, 2015
Download PRMan for Blender
Free alpha plugin headed up by Pixar's Brian Savery lets Blender users render using RenderMan 20.
Friday, July 10th, 2015