nEyeMaker for Maya creates ultra-customisable eyeballs
Lighting artist Luca Fiorentini's free, fully procedural eye features appearance controls galore. Neat.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Maya
Animation Mentor releases free Maya character rig
Teach yourself the fundamentals of character work with the animation school's toon-style Stewart rig.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Autodesk announces 2014 Extension releases
Updated: Max, Maya and Mudbox extensions now available: nothing for Softimage or MotionBuilder this time.
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
ftrack releases ftrack 2.0
Low-cost production-tracking system gets extensive overhaul, better compatibility with Nuke and Hiero.
Thursday, September 26th, 2013
Tutorial: Octane Render for Maya with Christophe Desse
Updated with new video: Watch the Naughty Dog artist's guide to using Otoy's GPU-accelerated engine.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max
Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
Autodesk launches pay-as-you-go pricing for Max, Maya
Cost of rental may appeal more to studios than freelancers, but user feedback has been broadly positive.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Maya 2014
Eric Keller's latest tutorial provides a complete eight-hour video guide to Maya's key toolsets.
Monday, September 9th, 2013
How to recreate Gollum with four consumer camcorders
Watch Fabrice Visserot's amazing homebrew mocap set-up recreate a key scene from The Two Towers.
Thursday, August 29th, 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
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Blender beta
Blender joins growing list of apps to work natively with the GPU-based renderer. Calls for Modo growing.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
The Leap Motion: control Maya by waving at your screen
Early users say both the Kinect-like controller and its Maya app are potentially powerful, if still frustrating.
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013