Southpaw Tech announces Tactic | aWare for Unity
New $399 tool hopes to fill gap in market for an asset-management system aimed at indie game devs.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
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Autodesk adds MEL scripting, OBJ export to Maya LT
Latest extension suddenly makes the 'lite' version of Maya for games artists a much more powerful proposition.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Autodesk lifts geometry export cap from Maya LT
If you're exporting to Unity, at least. For FBX files, the new Extension release ups the limit to 65,000 polys.
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Autodesk releases Maya LT for just $795
But new release is firmly aimed at indie game devs, not general users. Check out what's included in it here.
Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
Eye candy: the visual effects of Our Lady of Lourdes
VFX supervisor Peter Szewyczk explains how he created the hallucinatory FX on a laptop in the Arnold renderer.
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Mirye Software unveils Shade 3D for Unity
New free edition of the veteran 3D modelling and animation package targets indie game developers.
Thursday, December 20th, 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
Frozen Flame cuts price of MindTex to just $15
You wait years for an affordable map creation tool aimed at indie game artists, then two come along at once.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Autodesk unveils Scaleform for Unity and mobile
New releases to bring the games UI-design tool to Unity and Flash developers, for $295 per seat.
Wednesday, July 11th, 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: Ambrosia
One man, $17k, 280 FX shots: how Chris Herrick created high-power visuals for this low-budget thriller.
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Eye candy: Devils, Angels & Dating
Cupid, a devil and Death Herself form a very bizarre love triangle in Michael Cawood's comic short.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Download six free rigs from sci-fi movie Project London
Get a set of Blender vehicle and mech rigs from the indie VFX flick under a Creative Commons licence.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011