VFX breakdown: the making of Stratego
Brain Zoo Studios dissects its pipeline for its award-winning trailer for the classic military board game.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
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Forget video mapping: here's mocap mapping
Watch people interact live with a 3D projection of a mocapped character in NuFormer's cool teaser video.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Adobe releases free beta of Photoshop CS6
New UI, new OpenEXR capabilities, more speed - but will that Content Aware Move tool actually work?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Gnomon releases new Environment Sculpting DVD
Create detailed CG environments with David Lesperance's (literally) ground-breaking masterclass.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
UK government announces animation tax incentives
'Wallace and Gromit' scheme offers tax breaks on UK-produced games, animation to match those for VFX.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
19lights ships Ginger HDR
HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Fabric Engine 1.0 gets official release
Create high-performance VFX tools with the development platform created by ex-Softimage staff.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Gnomon ships Creating Highly Realistic Composites
New Rob Nederhorst masterclass DVD reveals the secrets of movie VFX compositing workflows.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Eye candy: Ruin
OddBall Animation's gorgeous post-apocalyptic short has strange echoes of Spielberg's debut feature.
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Download the scene files for Quit Blender
Get the assets for the fun five-day short created by the team on new Blender open movie Project Mango.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Sneak peek: iray rendering in 3ds Max
See what Max's GPU-accelerated render engine can do - if you have monstrously powerful hardware.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Review: Wacom Cintiq 24HD pen display
At 24 inches, the 24HD is Wacom's biggest and best input device yet. Fernando Caire is instantly smitten.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 1.4
Artist-friendly Maya crowd simulator gains support for mental ray rendering, new instancing tools.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012