See sand, sugar and snow simulated stylishly in Sandy
Check out these cool videos of granular materials, created in a new work-in-progress simulation system.
Monday, July 28th, 2014
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Check system performance with BlenchMark
Free Blender-based benchmarking tool tests both CPU and GPU and reports results to a central website.
Monday, July 28th, 2014
Download 165 new Xfrog 3D plant models for free
Get 36 plants, trees and shrubs in a range of common formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Friday, July 25th, 2014
Blender Institute announces Redcurrant
New lightweight open-source asset manager is intended to fill gap in the market between SVN and Shotgun.
Friday, July 25th, 2014
SynthEyes 1407 adds new voice-control system
And what's more, it looks genuinely useful. See it in action inside the low-cost camera-tracking software.
Thursday, July 24th, 2014
RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Flex 5 for After Effects
Morphing and warping plugin gets GPU acceleration. It's OpenCL-based, so you can use most cards.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
e-on ships Ozone 2014
Updated: Atmosphere creation plugin adds physically accurate sunlight. Free PLE edition now available.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Expert advice: environment artist Jeremy Boissinot
Rodeo FX's former environment lead on movies like Edge of Tomorrow discusses his workflow, and reveals his career tips.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Download over 80 free 3ds Max, Maya & V-Ray materials
Updated: RenderBox Studio's free online library now includes two new sets of car paint materials.
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Five technologies to watch: Akeytsu
Updated: See the first video of this interesting tool that aims to rethink animation for artists, not TDs.
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Watch the Siggraph 2014 animation festival winners
Not all of them can be shown online in full yet, but we've got extended clips and making-ofs for the others.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
SGO ships Mamba FX 2.0
Check out this $320 node-based compositor for Windows, Linux and Mac from the makers of Mistika.
Friday, July 18th, 2014
Pixologic to demo new version of ZBrush in August
Get a sneak peek at the new tools at the free ZBrush Summit, held at Gnomon's Hollywood HQ next month.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014