Videos: How Weta created the creatures of The Hobbit
Updated: New video shows the environment work, along with Gollum, Azog and the Goblin King.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
texturing
How Gnomon is reinventing online training
Gnomon's new live online courses make its legendary VFX tuition available anywhere in the world.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Substance Bonus Tools for Maya 2 now available
Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX
Much-anticipated genre-breaking 2D/3D package priced at $2,995: download the free PLE version now.
Monday, December 24th, 2012
Allegorithmic creates $99 Substance Designer licence
Identical to the full $590 edition, but intended for non-commercial use by hobbyists and games modders.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 2.0
Normal mapping toolkit gets new image-editing controls, faster algorithms, 15 built-in grunge maps.
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Quixel releases beta of dDo Photoshop 'super-plugin'
Powerful new tool automates process of creating realistically distressed games textures, looks awesome.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Tutorials: explore Mudbox's texturing capabilities
See how to use it with Maya with Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse and with 3ds Max by Pixel 23's Leandré Hounnake.
Monday, November 19th, 2012
Model on Android with Scalisoft's Spacedraw
New app lets you create, texture and light simple hard-surface models on your Android tablet or smartphone.
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 3.1
Update to games texturing tool adds the option to paint seamlessly tiling textures automatically.
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Tandent Vision Science releases Lightbrush
Cool new software breaks photos into lighting and surface colour components, for editing separately.
Friday, August 31st, 2012
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 3
Updated - now shipping: games texturing tool gets new bitmap paint system and batching capabilities.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases Projection Painter for Max
New plugin exports snapshots of your model to Photoshop for painting, then reprojects them in 3D.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012