Animate like Pixar artists with F.A.S.T. for 3ds Max

Clovis Gay's new plugin provides a fast, intuitive rigging workflow inspired by Pixar's Presto software,

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Eye candy: the Maxwell Render 2014 client reel

See two minutes of beautifully rendered CG, from photorealistic liquid simulations to kids' cartoons.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Eye candy: Next Limit's RealFlow 2014 showreel

Watch drips, drizzles and splashes created with the fluid simulator, plus a couple of larger VFX shots.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 3.3

Maya crowd simulator adds support for blendshape animaion - as shown in a rather endearing demo video.

Saturday, August 16th, 2014

Corel ships Painter 2015 & new Painter Mobile app

Desktop edition gets interesting new physics-based particle brushes; free Android app lets you paint on the go.

Friday, August 15th, 2014

Eye candy: the V-Ray Film & VFX showreel 2014

Watch three minutes of gorgeous cinematics, TV and movie FX work, from Batman to Captain America.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Nvidia and AMD overhaul Quadro, FirePro line-ups

Both firms announce replacements for entire current line of pro GPUs. Check out the new cards' stats here.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

Eye candy: Side Effects' Houdini 2014 demo reel

Watch things fall down, blow up and wash away in the latest showcase of the cutting edge of simulation.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

The Foundry unveils Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 9

All three get native Flipbook tool, more GPU acceleration; NukeX and Studio get revamped planar tracker.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1

New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana

New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Cebas announces release date for thinkingParticles 6

3ds Max multiphysics plugin due to ship in September. Update adds soft-body dynamics and fluids.

Friday, August 8th, 2014

Faceware Technologies ships Faceware Live 2.0

Markerless facial mocap system adds support for multiple characters, option to stream data live into Unity.

Friday, August 8th, 2014