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
Maya
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Try out GPU-accelerated GI in mental ray
Discover how to unlock the new engine built into 3ds Max and Maya 2015 to send Nvidia your feedback.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Eye candy: Auroras
Niles Heckman tells us how he made his labour-of-love FX short, rendered over three years on a single PC.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
AAA studio releases FurryBall for Cinema 4D
Version 4.8 of GPU-based renderer adds new Cinema 4D plugin alongside Maya, 3ds Max versions.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
Download 60 new Xfrog plants for free
Get 10 plants, trees and shrubs in a range of common formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Expert advice: Marvel character artist Josh Herman
The creator of Iron Man's iconic suit explains his workflow, and his tips for making retopology less painful.
Monday, June 30th, 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
Faceshift 2014 ships
Kinect-based facial scanning and markerless mocap tool gets quicker setup, improved tracking quality.
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Clean up point cloud data from 3D scans with Sparta
Updated: back the new Indiegogo campaign to get the pro versions of the particle sculpting app for less.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
CL3VER rolls out CL3VER 2.1
Updated: preview interactive demos created with the cloud-based 3D platform as Flash or WebGL.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Expert advice: Oz animator In-Ah Roediger
The VES Award nominee runs through her favourite tools in Maya, and her tips for young animators.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014