Gnomon releases definitive guide to 3D matte painting
Garrett Fry's new DVD, Advanced 3D Matte Painting Techniques, offers 10 hours of advanced instruction.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
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The Foundry launches new software 'Collectives'
New Autodesk-style product suites offer savings of over 35% on cost of buying Modo, Mari et al individually.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
Get Sprut: a free 2D fluids toolset for Nuke
Download this fast, flexible 2D fluid solver created by Framestore's Theodor Groeneboom.
Friday, January 31st, 2014
Colour correct on the move with Cinekolor for iOS
New iPhone app acts as 'mobile version of Lightroom or Lustre'; exports LUTs to Photoshop, Nuke.
Friday, January 24th, 2014
Artixels releases Resonance for Nuke
New image-generator plugin for VFX work creates caustics and organic effects quickly and interactively.
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
The Foundry ships Nuke 8.0
Updated: release adds new 3D tools, in-panel colour wheels, overhauled Dope Sheet. See the videos here.
Friday, December 6th, 2013
3d-io releases Spotmask for 3ds Max
Relight and retexture animations in post without rerendering with this nifty set of mental ray render elements.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
e-on software ships Vue 2014 product range
Updated: Entire Vue 2014 line-up now available. New features include physical sunlight, tone mapping.
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
ftrack releases ftrack 2.0
Low-cost production-tracking system gets extensive overhaul, better compatibility with Nuke and Hiero.
Thursday, September 26th, 2013
Eye candy: Platige creates tiny talking tiger as energy drink ad
Cult Polish studio's new spot recasts Life of Pi as not-so-safe sex advice for twentysomething party animals.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Eye candy: The new Honda 'Hands' idents
Cool new UK TV spots turn Honda vehicles into transforming toys, through a little Softimage magic.
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
RE:Vision Effects ships RE:Match for Nuke, Fusion
Formerly After Effects and Premiere Pro-only color-matching plugin suite now available for OFX compositors.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013