Eye candy: Tears of Steel
The Blender Foundation's first VFX open movie blends boy-girl romance and kickass robots - and it's a blast.
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
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Pixologic releases Getting Started with ZBrush 4R4
Free 34-page PDF guide rounds up key ZBrush tools and techniques, and links to online walkthroughs.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Meet 10 leading concept artists at Forge this Friday
Mingle with 10 concept art superstars at this free evening show at Hollywood's Gnomon Gallery.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
One to bookmark: modopedia
Pat Crandley's new video training resource collates hundreds of excellent free tutorials for modo.
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Meet Sparta: it's like ZBrush, but for particles
Lyouta Koduka's intriguing tool for 'sculpting' Maya, Softimage and 3ds Max simulations enters free beta.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
xoio releases more free photographic cutout people
Updated again: another 330MB of stock visualisation images have just gone up on the xoio-air site.
Monday, September 17th, 2012
Tutorial: sculpting realistic clouds with fluids
See 3ds Max VFX guru Allan McKay's 45-minute video on fast-rendering dynamic clouds in FumeFX.
Friday, September 14th, 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
GarageGames to open source Torque 3D
Source code for version 1.2 of the venerable indie game engine to be made available for free via GitHub.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
LuxRender 1.0 released
Updated: Open-source physically based render engine for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Softimage hits 'official' release.
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Disney releases BRDF Explorer
Newly open-sourced tool analyses BRDF data, enabling comparison to data from real-world materials.
Friday, August 31st, 2012
Showcase 3D models online via the Sketchfab website
Updated again: 'Vimeo of 3D' online model viewer now comes with a new exporter for Maya.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
moma: render Maya scenes with modo's render engine
Jacobo Barreiro's two-way bridge between Maya and modo 601 now in open beta and free for anyone to try.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012