Eye candy: Devils, Angels & Dating
Cupid, a devil and Death Herself form a very bizarre love triangle in Michael Cawood's comic short.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
animation
Eye candy: The Brute's Passion
A medieval torturer falls in love in René Hoekstra's comedy short: like Pepé Le Pew with thumbscrews
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Miguel Winfield ships MGtools 2.5
Latest version of Maya animators' toolkit includes automated real-time scene-recovery system.
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
iCube releases CityTraffic 2 plugin for 3ds Max
Free update to vehicle animation tool gets completely rewritten AI system for simulating traffic flow.
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
StretchMesh for Maya to be made open source
Kickstand to release source code for cult deformation plugin, but calls for funds to secure its future support.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
e-on software ships entire Vue 10 product line
Update to landscape generation software features new tools for routing roads and placing rocks.
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Eye candy: Hooked
An undersea beatboxing session goes awry when the star becomes calimari in Cybertime's quirky short, created using Cinema 4D R13.
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Eye candy: Rosa
One reviewer called Jesús Orellana's moody sci-fi short "the geek event of the year". See it and decide for yourself.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Luxion ships KeyShot 3
Easy-to-use photorealistic renderer adds intriguing new no-keyframe system for technical animation.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Eye candy: Pythagasaurus
Start your week with a helping of man-eating trigonometry in Aardman Animations' sublime new short.
Monday, October 31st, 2011
See making of videos for The Adventures of Tintin
Updated: the original videos have now been taken down, but you can still find them if you Google hard.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Joe Alter adds 3D paint tools to LipService for Maya
Current beta of the promising facial sculpting and animation plug-in gains intuitive 3D painting toolset.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Eye candy: Gorillavator
Check out Wiek Luijken's winning entry in the Houdini Apprentice Cook-Off contest. Short, but sweet.
Thursday, September 29th, 2011