RigMesh: putting the fun back into rigging
Sketch the outline of a character and have this nifty automatic rigging tool create a mesh and IK skeleton.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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Wayne Robson to ship two cool free Mudbox tools
Mudbox star to release import/export toolkit MudWalkerX and intelligent polygon-reduction tool ReDucto.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
One to try: appleseed
It may be yet another open source physically based renderer - but it's being written specifically with production in mind.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
GIMP 2.8 released
Open-source image editor gets new UI and tools and... sweet Jesus, is that really a single-window mode?
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Luxology releases trial versions of modo 601
Get a 15-day licence for free, or pay $25 for the Production Evaluation edition and its extra video training.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Allegorithmic releases free parquet-creation tool
Use MakeIt A Parquet to create realistic floors in 3ds Max or Maya based on any type of wood grain.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
CGArena releases 300 free animal reference images
Download free-to-use hi-res images of our furred, feathered and scaly friends from their online library.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Planetside Software releases Terragen 2.4
Free update marks first full outing for landscape generator's Animation Module, plus new fixes for GI flicker.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Renderfarm.fi adds support for Cycles
Free distributed online rendering service adds support for Blender's new raytrace render engine.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
xoio ships 24 free textures of bark, leaves, roads
Suitable for commercial work and complete with normal, bump, displacement and/or alpha maps.
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Download three free HD timelapse skies
Get free 1080p videos of skies for use as visualisation backdrops, each recorded by artist Marc Lorenz.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Register for the free Houdini FLIP fluids webinar
Sign up for the free 30-minute session on Houdini 12's fluid simulation tools, held next month.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
See Blur discuss the making of the Dragon Tattoo titles
Sign up for the free masterclass, held at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood this Thursday.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012