OLM Digital updates its open-source plugins
Noise Deformer updated to Maya 2013; Photoshop and After Effects antialiasing tool OLM Smoother gets new Nuke version.
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
animation
Film review: Wreck-It Ralph
Disney's latest animated feature is an 8-bit adventure as explosively entertaining as it is heartwarming.
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Digital Frontier ships free 3ds Max Alembic importer
Import files in the new industry-standard interchange format into 3ds Max, complete with animation.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Eye candy: Little Kaiju
What lives in Tokyo's vending machines? Cute little monsters, if you believe TWiN's new VFX short.
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
OC3 Entertainment releases FaceFX 2013
Leading automated facial animation tool gets new pricing structure, new FBX pipeline for Unity and Blender.
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Mikros Image open-sources Puli and ColorTribe
Leading French VFX house releases Maya/Nuke renderfarm manager and colour-management tools for free.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Discover the secrets of real-time rendering in Maya
Animator Joe Daniels sets out the Viewport 2.0-based workflow he used on his Starfish Ninja short.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Di-O-Matic ships Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) 2.0
Automated lip-sync plugin gets expanded language support, new quality presets, and new Pro edition.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Eye candy: Chaos Group's 2012 V-Ray showreels
Leading renderer gets not one demo reel but (count 'em) five. And they're all teeth-grindingly gorgeous.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Verold to add animation support to Verold Studio
Sign up now to beta test the new tools in this web-based system for displaying and sharing 3D assets.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Alex Roman at work on book of The Third & The Seventh
No details yet, but there's an email address where you can preorder the book of the cult photorealistic short.
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
e-on software releases LumenRT 3 Review
Easy-to-use SketchUp visualisation tool gets animated plants, advanced materials, 10x boost in speed.
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Fabric Engine launches Creation Platform
See cool tools built with the high-performance app development framework running inside Maya.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012