Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation
See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
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Eye candy: Animal Logic's new Coca-Cola short
Directed by Kung Fu Panda's John Stevenson and produced by Ridley Scott, it's Happy Feet, but with bears.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Digital Sorcery releases TouchAnimator app for iPad
Updated 28 December: Create character animation on your tablet for export to Blender. Now for Android and iOS.
Friday, December 28th, 2012
Mirye Software unveils Shade 3D for Unity
New free edition of the veteran 3D modelling and animation package targets indie game developers.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Eye candy: shiny things from the Halo 4 web series
Bored of the game already? See some excellent new online work from Polynoid and Axis Animation.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
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
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