Sneak peek: Maya's new grease pencil tool
Tech preview shows the work-in-progress tool in use to rough out animation directly over the viewport.
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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Autodesk to unveil 2014 product line on 27 March
Join the Unfold event live in Montreal or watch it online, then quiz product managers via the Unfold website.
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Kolor ships Autopano 3.0
Image-stitching software gains five new projection types, full real-time workflow, and new preview mode.
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Chaos Group to preview V-Ray 3.0 at Siggraph Asia
Features lined up for future releases include Alembic and deep image support, metaballs, new materials.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Watch the highlights of Siggraph Asia's tech papers
See cool new ways to reconstruct hair from thermal images, clouds from photos and rigs from sketches.
Monday, November 5th, 2012
See Thea Render's new GPU renderer in action
Hybrid biased/unbiased render engine to get GPU-based real-time interactive preview.
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Autodesk releases preview of augmented reality plugin
It's for Showcase, not 3ds Max or Maya, but it's still a work in progress, so anything could yet happen.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Holomatix ships SprayTrace mental ray viewer for Maya
Updated: new plugin provides interactive preview of a mental ray scene - now with Mac OS X support.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Videos: technical advances from Siggraph 2012
See the coolest research on show: from new fluid sims to a tool to turn your doodles into artists' drawings.
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Adobe unveils Production Premium CS6 product suite
Premiere Pro gets new UI, OpenCL support; After Effects gains 3D tracker and raytrace render engine.
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Lightmap previews HDR Light Studio 3.5
Light your model by clicking on its surface to position highlights with this nifty real-time lighting toolset.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 3.0 for 3ds Max
Update to gaseous fluid simulator adds per-voxel controls, new space warps. Maya version due this year.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Sneak peek: 3ds Max's new 'Send To' workflow
Updated: now with an actual video showing data transfer between Max and Maya as well as MotionBuilder.
Monday, March 5th, 2012