Eye candy: Platige creates tiny talking tiger as energy drink ad
Cult Polish studio's new spot recasts Life of Pi as not-so-safe sex advice for twentysomething party animals.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
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Videos: destruction FX with Particle Flow in 3ds Max 2014
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of free training on particle-based destruction and fluid effects.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Eye candy: Atomic Fiction's new showreel
See nice breakdowns of shots from Star Trek Into Darkness from the rising stars of the VFX world.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
VFX breakdown: Moo Studios' new Blue Moon spot
VFX supervisor Sebastiano D'Aprile explains how 'Brewmaster's Inspiration' blends stop-motion and painterly CG.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Gnomon releases new DVD on sculpting better characters
Sculpting a Stylized Character shows how Weta's David Meng creates a practical sculpt of an orang-utan.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn festival announces speakers
ILM, Pixar and Blizzard artists to speak at world's best-named CG event in Portugal this September.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
moma for Mari: render Mari scenes in Modo's renderer
Jacobo Barreiro updates his two-way bridge between Modo and Maya to support The Foundry's paint package.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Anzovin Studio releases The Setup Machine for Games
New version of the Maya auto-rigging plugin now supports game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
e-on software releases Vue 11.5 PLE
Learning edition of the environment tool gives access the full feature set of Vue 11.5 Infinite and xStream.
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Corel ships Painter X3
Digital paint package gets better brush-editing worflow, Photoshop-like jitter options, nice perspective guides.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Autodesk ships FBX Review
Free DirectX 11-based viewer lets games artists review assets in a range of standard 3D file formats.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Foundry and Pixar announce 'strategic collaboration'
Immediate result: copies of Katana now come with a free licence of RenderMan Pro Server.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013