Video: what Blender's interface should look like
Watch Blender Guru's Andrew Price analyse the software's 'broken' UI, then comment on his own proposals.
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
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Video: layered materials in Unreal Engine 4
Updated with new video: see how Epic's next-gen game engine was used in its Infiltrator tech demo.
Friday, September 27th, 2013
Tutorial: Octane Render for Maya with Christophe Desse
Updated with new video: Watch the Naughty Dog artist's guide to using Otoy's GPU-accelerated engine.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
3-Sweep turns single photos into editable 3D objects
Cool R&D technology lets you turn objects in a photo into 3D models, then reposition them in the image.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Maya 2014
Eric Keller's latest tutorial provides a complete eight-hour video guide to Maya's key toolsets.
Monday, September 9th, 2013
Sneak peek: Raylight's XrayCat 1.5 for Max
Updated and now shipping: 3ds Max animation toolkit gets new Pose Manager, better joystick controllers.
Friday, September 6th, 2013
How to recreate Gollum with four consumer camcorders
Watch Fabrice Visserot's amazing homebrew mocap set-up recreate a key scene from The Two Towers.
Thursday, August 29th, 2013
Video: Pixar's new GPU-based lighting workflow
Cool tech video shows OptiX-based system preview sets from Monsters University in near-real time.
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
Video: Crytek's tasty new CryEngine tech demo
Engine update shows off physically based skin shading, automated LODs, procedural GPGPU weather.
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Videos: destruction FX with Particle Flow in 3ds Max 2014
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of free training on particle-based destruction and fluid effects.
Monday, August 5th, 2013
Gnomon releases new DVD on sculpting better characters
Sculpting a Stylized Character shows how Weta's David Meng creates a practical sculpt of an orang-utan.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Faceware Technologies announces Faceware Live
Markerless facial-capture specialist announces new real-time system for broadcast and on-set pre-viz.
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Watch cool new videos of the FluX fluid simulator
FXGear posts new shots - and shot breakdowns - of liquid sims created in its promising-looking new tool.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013