Substance Bonus Tools for Maya 2 now available
Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
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Video tutorial: animated destruction in 3ds Max
Set up a thinkingParticles rig using procedural activators and force values with Hydraulx's Will Wallace.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige Image's Catzilla benchmark short
Updated: Test your workstation and watch a giant animated cat nuke cities with its laser eyes as you do.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Adobe hasn't made Creative Suite 2 available for free
Despite what you may have read on CNET or Gizmodo, or the fact that the download links are still live.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation
See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
Jasper Brekelmans unveils new Brekel Kinect tools
Updated: low-cost motion-capture tools Brekel Kinect Body and Brekel Kinect Point Cloud now shipping.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
Watch 26 of Pete Draper's 3ds Max video tutorials
Updated: see a new batch from the VFX expert, including a three-hour tutorial on simulating a tornado.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
FluidRay RT enters free beta
Updated: Physically accurate renderer based on Intel's Embree kernels becomes available for Mac as well as Windows.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Eye candy: Animal Logic's new Coca-Cola short
Directed by Kung Fu Panda's John Stevenson and produced by Ridley Scott, it's Happy Feet, but with bears.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Blender gets new Dynamic Topology sculpting system
Code for the eagerly anticipated Sculptris-like system committed to the trunk; test builds available now.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
Download 140 Xfrog plant models for free
Get 31 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R5
Updated: intriguing video shows the new tools in use to turn a DynaMesh sculpt into a hard-surface model.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
PhotoLine 17.5: a serious alternative to Photoshop?
Fans claim the $75 app's new OpenEXR support and 32-bit linear workflow make it a viable pro tool.
Monday, December 31st, 2012