Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
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Eye candy: Main Road|Post's Stalingrad VFX reel
Check out eight minutes of beautiful Houdini effects breakdowns from the epic Russian war movie.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
Gnomon releases 200-minute lighting masterclass
Disney veteran Frederic Durand's Light and Shadow shows that good lighting is about more than just lights.
Monday, December 16th, 2013
10 questions for... Attack FX founder Nick Hiatt
The matte painter on Oblivion and Thor: The Dark World faces our barrage of tech and career questions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.7
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
So what is... The Foundry's Modo Steam Edition?
Our summary of the tech specs cuts through some of the confusion about the new $149 modding tool.
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla Render
Updated with more details: Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used by Prime Focus on Total Recall.
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino
Update adds V-Ray RT GPU, plus bonus add-on with 200 readymade material and lighting set-ups.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Knald Technologies releases Knald
Updated: New GPU-accelerated tool generates games texture maps from photographic source images.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Interview: DreamWorks FX veteran Alessandro Pepe
The versatile technical director discusses the key skills for today's TDs, and his tips for young FX artists.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Video: water effects in Unreal Engine 4
See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships XMesh MY
New Maya version of the 3ds Max plugin for caching animated geometry speeds up work in mixed pipelines.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Marmoset releases Marmoset Toolbag 2
Updated: Real-time render toolkit for games gets complete scene editor, support for physically based shaders.
Saturday, December 7th, 2013