Eye candy: Natalis
Watch the edited version and making-of video for last night's VES Award-winning student short.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
animation
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 6.2
Free update to the low-cost Mac-only 3D app adds ABF UV unwrapping, better ring and loop selection tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
NewTek begins shipping LightWave 11.5
Well-received update adds Genoma rigging system, better After Effects interoperability, nice modelling tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Eye candy: Disney's Paperman VFX breakdown
Updated: See the whole of Disney's charming fake-2D short here, along with a detailed making-of video.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 2.2
Maya crowd-simulation tool adds support for Arnold renderer, new automatic texture-variation system.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Mixamo releases Mecanim Animation Store plugin
New Unity add-on lets developers access Mixamo's motion library from directly within the software.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.5
Low-cost crowd-simulation system for Max, Maya and Cinema 4D gets SSS material, overlay motion clips.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
How Gnomon is reinventing online training
Gnomon's new live online courses make its legendary VFX tuition available anywhere in the world.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Crytek TD updates open source Maya rigging toolkit
Mark Jackson's Red9 Studio Pack brings big-studio pipeline tools to small studios without R&D teams.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Blizzard's new StarCraft II teaser is epic in every way
Latest cinematic packs in more aliens and space marines than you could shake a wrist cannon at.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Eye candy: R'ha
It's aliens vs Skynet in Kaleb Lechowski's incredible one-man short, created in seven months in Blender and Maya.
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Eye candy: Lux Aeterna
Cristóbal Vila's beautiful short, created in modo and Cinema 4D, journeys from distant galaxies to droplets of water.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Video tutorial: Blow stuff up in 3ds Max
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of new video training on creating believable destruction.
Monday, January 14th, 2013