Smith Micro ships Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012
New update adds weight painting, SSS, improved OpenGL preview to the popular figure design software.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Siggraph 2011
Watch Autodesk's Siggraph 2011 masterclasses online
Free training sessions on next-gen head modelling, animation in Maya and Softimage, and VFX in Max.
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Video: Houdini's Siggraph user group presentation
Watch Side Effects Software's Jeff Wagner demo some of the cool tools coming in Houdini 12.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Cebas demos finalRender 4GPU
User footage from the expo floor shows GPU acceleration in action in the upcoming 3ds Max renderer.
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Mudbox's new Gigatexel engine
User video shows textures being painted in real time on a model with over 1,000 2k maps already applied.
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: see the new tools in Softimage 2012.5
Watch Autodesk's movies of the new modelling and simulation tools in the upcoming Advantage Pack update.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Imagination shows off Brazil 3.0 beta
Render engine returns from a string of buyouts rebuilt and repositioned as an SDK for interactive raytracing.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: peek under the hood of the new Houdini
Check out Side Effects' videos of the turbo-charged new geometry engine and simulation tools in Houdini 12.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Autodesk inks licensing deal with Disney
Gains five years' exclusive access to XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology used on Bolt and Tangled.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Vicon demos 'mobile mocap' cameras
New lipstick-sized cameras could make facial capture as portable as with markerless capture systems.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Pixar unveils RenderMan for Maya 5.0
Forthcoming update to overhaul raytracing and add 'physically plausible' shading, radiosity cache.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Maya to get native Bullet physics
New Advantage Pack also adds support for the Alembic data interchange format, new Node Editor.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: videos of the upcoming 3ds Max update
Check out State Sets and iray running in an ActiveShade window - both due in the new Advantage Pack.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011