Epic Games posts cool new Unreal Engine 3 tech demo

Rain, God rays and extreme depth of field: check out the tech behind next year's Gears of War 3.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Get insight3D: open source image-based modelling tool

Download an early release and help out its developer by sending in your feedback on real-world data sets.

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Cinema 4D to get mental ray and iray renderers

New third-party add-on brings power of mental images render engines to Cinema users - for a price.

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Eye candy: (not particularly) new trailer for The Goon

Dark Horse's supernatural comedy comes brawling into cinemas, with animation courtesy of Blur Studio.

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Pre-order new 3DTotal book and get a spiffy T-shirt

Feed your mind and clothe your body by buying Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 2

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Mini round-up: cool new iPad apps for digital artists

New apps transform the iPad into a portable device for client sessions or a digital sculpting controller.

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Round-up: new 3ds Max plug-ins, tools and shaders

(Almost) everything a Max artist could need, from vehicle rigging to complete virtual reality add-ons

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Eye Candy: Ruairi Robinson's creepy new Blinky teaser

"Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don't worry, your kids are perfectly safe."

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2011

Affordable camera-tracking solution moves out of beta testing and into customers' hands.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Toy Story 3 tops Oscar tips for Best Animated Feature

Other 14 movies in contention on Academy Awards long list snubbed by mainstream news sites.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Eye candy: Alex Roman's amazing new photoreal ad

The Third & Seventh's creator posts sumptuous new spot for Silestone worktops. Those are not real fruit.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

New hack turns Kinect into low-cost mocap camera

Cool videos show US researcher demo Microsoft games peripheral as basic 3D capture tool.

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Book review: Icons - The Art of Jim Lee

It's huge, but does this compilation of the comics legend's art use its size wisely, asks Fernando Caire?

Monday, November 15th, 2010