Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.2
Turn any model into an relightable cloud and render it as a 32-bit HDR with this neat Maya plugin.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
modeling
Trimble ships SketchUp 2015
Now fully 64-bit, and there's no longer any need to buy separate licences for Windows and Mac.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Michael Gibson releases MoI 3
Long-awaited update to intuitive NURBS modeller adds lots of nice new tools, plus multi-touch support.
Monday, September 22nd, 2014
Gnomon releases Creating Believable 3D Environments
New two-hour video sets out Blizzard cinematic environment modeling star Seth Thompson's workflow.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Gnomon ships superheroic character design training
Sculpt and render the Silver Surfer with Marvel artist Josh Herman's ZBrush, Maya & KeyShot tutorial.
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1
New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Eye candy: Gnomon's new Best of Term awards
See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.
Friday, July 4th, 2014
Teach your kids modelling with Blox 3D
Free iOS, Android and Windows app lets 4-to-8-year-olds create simple block-based 3D models.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Sign up for Gnomon Master Classes 2014
Learn from senior artists at Disney, Marvel and Blizzard in next month's series of 14 exclusive interactive online workshops.
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
The Foundry ships Modo 801
'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.
Friday, April 25th, 2014
Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015
Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Sneak peek: magnetic modelling in 3ds Max 2015
See the first teaser of the new smart modelling workflow in the upcoming release - an official one, this time.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.1
Intuitive mesh-editing tool gets integrated 3D print preview and diagnostics, new modelling options.
Thursday, February 20th, 2014