Eye candy: The Chase
Man retreats to cabin in Chile for eight months, lives on oatmeal, creates amazing 15-minute short.
Friday, February 24th, 2012
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Luxion unveils KeyShot 3.1
Update to the real-time rendering tool to add new metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Eye candy: Little Tombstone
Clint Eastwood goes toe to toe with Red Dead Redemption in this stunningly detailed student short.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
See Moonbot Studios' Oscar-nominated short in full, and watch making-of videos of its creation.
Friday, January 27th, 2012
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
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