e-on software ships Vue 2014 product range

Updated: Entire Vue 2014 line-up now available. New features include physical sunlight, tone mapping.

Thursday, November 28th, 2013

Cirri unveils Cirri and Cirri Lite photogrammetry software

New image-based modelling tools based on the tech behind ShapeScan promise pro quality at low prices.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

See Disney's snow simulation system recreated in Blender

Molecular add-on recreates Frozen's physics demo surprisingly accurately - albeit at much lower resolution.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4.5

Update to the GPU-based renderer adds progressive rendering. Modo and Softimage editions mooted.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Autodesk unveils details of its 3December 2013 event

See footage of the live event online, along with interviews, tutorials and a 'making of Elysium' session.

Monday, November 25th, 2013

Eye candy: Caminandes: Gran Dillama

A hapless llama has a fur-raising time in the Blender Institute's latest, Chuck Jones-inspired, open movie.

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

Eye candy: Disney's snow simulation system from Frozen

See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature.

Thursday, November 21st, 2013

Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 18

Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1311

Affordable match-moving tool gets 3D planar tracker, better scripting support. Pricing cut still further.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity

Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Blender gets new user interface team

New team to streamline current UI development efforts. Blender Guru's Andrew Price included as designer.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Next Limit announces new tools in Maxwell Render 3

Discover a new feature a day every day this week on the mini-site for the physically based renderer.

Monday, November 18th, 2013

Gnomon announces Master Classes 2013 line-up

Learn from 14 of the world's leading games and VFX artists in the online classes, from 16-31 December.

Thursday, November 14th, 2013