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Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

Downloadable 3ds Max template turns any model into an attractive clay-shaded turntable animation.

Thursday, February 12th, 2015

Control armies via natural language with the crowd simulation tool's new human language logic system.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Create Smart IBL lighting setups in Maya and V-Ray semi-automatically with this handy free helper script.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Free RF tool for meshing particles at render time gets better Arnold support, system for surface spray.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.

Friday, December 12th, 2014

Updated: Get a range of tree models in MAX and/or OBJ formats from artist Krzysztof Czerwiński's blog.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

Updated: The Prometheus concept artist's VFX short turns Terminator's story on its head. Watch it here.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

3ds Max, Maya and C4D instancing plugin gets intuitive new EcoSystem brushes, plus support for LoDs.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2014