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
animation
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
Shotgun Software announces Shotgun 4.0
Update to production-management tool on show at Siggraph, along with beta of shot-review tool Revolver.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Motion Tools 1.0: do motion graphics in Softimage
Gustavo Boehs' free collection of ICE-based tools automates common motion graphics tasks.
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Chris Zurbrigg releases Blue Pencil for Maya
New plugin lets you draw over the 3D viewport to rough out animation, sketch layouts or mark up shots.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases Jiggle for 3ds Max
New plugin simulates muscle and skin sliding without complex rigs; results in unnerving demo video.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Valve releases Source Filmmaker machinima tool
Updated: In-house movie-making toolset now out of closed beta and free to anyone with a Steam account.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Eye candy: New Rise of the Guardians trailer
See Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman as you have never seen them before.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Project focus: the making of Exoids
Director Meni Tsirbas talks us through his post-apocalyptic short, created with an all-student team.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Eye candy: Stadium UK
Passion Pictures' spot for the London 2012 Olympics captures the magic of the Games without the PR hype.
Friday, July 6th, 2012