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concept design

The Blizzard and ILM star faces our barrage of questions about his 3D concept design workflow.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

The Iron Man veteran talks us through his world and vehicle designs for M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi drama.

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

Three-hour training video by Blizzard concept artist Joe Peterson explores how to create cool, realistic mechs.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

Physically accurate renderer gains native support for AutoDesSys's concept modelling package.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

3DTotal's latest book repeats a familiar format. Lucky it also repeats the magic, says Fernando Caire.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Free tool generates body and finger rigs for humanoid 3D characters. Check out its new animation browsing and retargeting system.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Check out the changes in the latest version of the GPU production renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Promising 3D texture painting and material authoring tools come out of early access next week. Check out the features due in the update.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Big update to the material-authoring software adds new 3D renderer and the option to import entire USD scenes to edit materials in context.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Get games artist Stefan Oprisan's Day By The Beach pack of 3D scanned assets free for two weeks on Fab. For commercial use.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Major update to the next-gen terrain generator for games and VFX adds 10 new nodes, and updates over 20 more. Check out the new features.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025