Animate like Pixar artists with F.A.S.T. for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's new plugin provides a fast, intuitive rigging workflow inspired by Pixar's Presto software,
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
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Side Effects releases Houdini Indie
Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Solid Angle to preview GPU version of Arnold
OpenCL-based 'GPU prototype' of the VFX industry-standard renderer to demo on AMD's booth at Siggraph.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
Zoic Studios ships $10 iPad app for viewing virtual sets
ZEUS:Scout lets users build and navigate virtual environments and comp them into live video footage.
Monday, August 4th, 2014
Video: Fabric Software's Splice for 3ds Max
See 600 rigged characters running in the Max viewport in real time with the upcoming Fabric Engine plugin.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Side Effects unveils Houdini Engine for 3ds Max, Unreal
Unreal Engine plugin being developed in house; 3ds Max version by former Digital Domain TD Hideki Suzuki.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
Unreal Engine 4.3 throws in SpeedTree for free
Updated, now shipping: engine now includes runtime of IDV's vegetation system, plus three free trees.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
Bonus technology to watch: Ormr
A neat procedural image editor with a novel non-destructive workflow and 'best in class' PSD import.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014
Five technologies to watch: Seekscale
An on-demand cloud render service aimed at VFX facilities that lets you use all your own tools and plugins.
Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Five technologies to watch: appleseed
Today, a production-ready physically based renderer with one of the most beautiful demo shorts ever created.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Five technologies to watch: Redshift
Our week of cool tools kicks off with a 'ludicrously fast' GPU-based renderer for Maya and Softimage.
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
Adobe releases Photoshop Mix, Sketch and Line apps
New free iOS apps provide basic compositing, drawing and drafting tools on your iPad.
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
3Dconnexion announces SpaceMouse Pro Wireless
New 2.4GHz wireless edition of the popular 3D control device due to ship early next month.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014