Eye candy: New Rise of the Guardians trailer
See Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman as you have never seen them before.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
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Project focus: the making of Exoids
Director Meni Tsirbas talks us through his post-apocalyptic short, created with an all-student team.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Eye candy: Stadium UK
Passion Pictures' spot for the London 2012 Olympics captures the magic of the Games without the PR hype.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Eye candy: the Architectural 3D Awards 2012 nominees
Updated: Lots for non-architects, too, from a homage to 2001 to Jonathan Gales' winning short, Megalomania.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
ArtVPS adds cloud rendering to Shaderlight 2.2
Send jobs to the cloud directly from within SketchUp with the plugin's new one-click online rendering system.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 1.5
Crowd simulator now shows your actors directly within the Maya render window, rather than baking geometry.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
GPU review: Quadro 5000 vs GeForce GTX 580
Pro card or games card? The NYC 3ds Max user group sets out to settle which is better for 3D work.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
EU court rules: it's okay to resell downloaded software
Good news if you've got copies of Maya, Photoshop et al gathering dust at the back of your hard drive.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
Watch three hours of 'ICE porn' from Psyop
See footage of sessions from the studio's recent workshop, hosted by the stars of the Softimage world.
Monday, July 2nd, 2012
RevUp Render starts V-Ray cloud rendering service
Render 3ds Max or Maya scenes in a fraction of the time taken on your desktop via this new online service.
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Eye candy: Ambrosia
One man, $17k, 280 FX shots: how Chris Herrick created high-power visuals for this low-budget thriller.
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
cebas releases thinkingParticles 5
Update to the 3ds Max particle tool adds Bullet physics, car simulation and soft bodies. See them all here.
Friday, June 29th, 2012
Get into Siggraph Asia 2012 for nothing
Sign up as a student volunteer to get full access to Asia's premier CG festival without paying a cent.
Friday, June 29th, 2012