Brent Forrest releases BoolieMan rig for Maya

Nifty Boolean-based rig mimics the look and motion of a claymation character, in all its wobbliness.

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Eye candy: R'ha

It's aliens vs Skynet in Kaleb Lechowski's incredible one-man short, created in seven months in Blender and Maya.

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Nine shorts that will make amazing VFX movies

Watch i09's run-down of indie shorts slated to become complete features, from Archetype to True Skin.

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Katana and mocha creators win technical Oscars

Other Sci-Tech Academy Awards go to Weta, DreamWorks and the tech behind Blender's smoke system.

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Eye candy: Lux Aeterna

Cristóbal Vila's beautiful short, created in modo and Cinema 4D, journeys from distant galaxies to droplets of water.

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Anzovin Studio demos Anzovin Rig Tools for Maya

Updated: Pricing and release date (kind of) set for neat rigging plugin. Pledge your support via IndieGoGo.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Video tutorial: Blow stuff up in 3ds Max

Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of new video training on creating believable destruction.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Autodesk to raise cost of upgrades for its software

If you're using one of the last three releases, at any rate. Some SRPs and maintenance prices also up.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Download Para 3d 2.9 free

Grab the latest version of Ali Torabi's plugin for designing complex parametric arrays in 3ds Max.

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Create a speed model this weekend and win $200

Recreate one of LEGO's Mindstorms EV3 robot kits, and you could win Sketchfab's first Sketchfast contest.

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Book review: Massive Black: Volume 2

The cover will scuff easily, but if you’re after a character-design-heavy art book, you need look no further.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Download PD Pro 5 for free

And unlike Photoshop CS2, your copy of this painting and image-editing package is definitely legal.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Watch Next Limit's RealFlow 2013 preview event

Updated with another new video: see the new FLIP solver, scene graphs, and support for Alembic and Field3D.

Thursday, January 10th, 2013