Allegorithmic releases free animated caustics map
Substance Caustics provides loopable caustic effects in 3ds Max 2012 and Maya 2012.
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Maya
Lightstorm3D ships L3Deformer bundle for Maya
Price for hotly tipped tools fixed at €149. Windows-only so far, but OS X and Linux versions in the works.
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Allegorithmic ships grunge and normal-mapping tools
Texture specialist ships new grunge and CrazyBump-style toolkits, calls for requests for future tools.
Friday, May 27th, 2011
Video: Indigo Renderer 3.0 goes GPU-accelerated
Unbiased renderer to support CUDA and OpenCL-powered real-time materials and camera editing.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Lightstorm3D to release new Maya deformers
Check out videos of the upcoming L3Deformer package, for everything from shrink wrapping to high viscosity liquid surfaces.
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Golaem to release new high-end crowd simulator
Golaem Crowd aims to provide simpler alternative to Massive for complex visual effects shots.
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Beta test Carbon Scatter for Maya or Cinema 4D
e-on software calls for volunteers to test upcoming ports of its new instancing plug-in.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Chaos Group announces beta of V-Ray for Maya 2.0
Free beta program brings GPU-accelerated rendering to Maya users. Full release later this month.
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Videos: Autodesk's GDC demos of its 2012 products
See a complete set of 30-minute demos of 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Mudbox and MotionBuilder 2012
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Joe Alter to ship corrective sculpting plug-in for Maya
Shave and a Haircut veteran releases free beta of LipService hybrid sculpting/animation tool.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Autodesk Unveils Project Skyline
New live content game authoring tool links Maya directly to game engines.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Tech preview: new animation features in Maya
New Autodesk teaser video shows motion trails and timing beads to control animation in the viewport.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Q&A: Alex Sandri, Maya/mental ray guru
He spent ten years hunting bugs in the Maya/mental ray pipeline - but his new online masterclass will spare you that pain.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011