Sneak peek: 3ds Max's updated Nitrous viewport
'Will it be in 3ds Max 2014?' teaser video shows improved performance on multi-million-poly scenes
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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Cebas posts new preview videos of finalRender 4 GPU
Updated: new video talks up the world's first "continuous rendering workflow between CPU and GPU".
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Spoof UFO video becomes YouTube hit, Wired story
Check out some nice work by Meni Tsirbas and his Gnomon students. Can you guess how much is CGI?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Video tutorials: using Panel Loops in ZBrush 4R5
Watch Michael Pavlovich sculpt complex hard-surface models in Pixologic's new free online training.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Videos: real-time hair in Luminous Studio
Watch hair being rendered in Square Enix's next-gen game engine - including a rather odd demo of a beard.
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Watch the classes from Autodesk University 2012
Lots of free tutorials for 3ds Max and Maya, but only a couple for Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Video tutorial: Blow stuff up in 3ds Max
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of new video training on creating believable destruction.
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Video tutorial: animated destruction in 3ds Max
Set up a thinkingParticles rig using procedural activators and force values with Hydraulx's Will Wallace.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Watch 26 of Pete Draper's 3ds Max video tutorials
Updated: see a new batch from the VFX expert, including a three-hour tutorial on simulating a tornado.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
Video tutorial: MediaSync workflow in 3ds Max 2013
Watch Autodesk's Gary M. Davis explore new ways to use 3ds Max with After Effects and Photoshop.
Monday, December 31st, 2012
See Autodesk's 3December masterclasses live
Watch a 90-minute session on stereo work by Blue Sky's Jayme Wilkinson today: two new sessions tomorrow.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Eye candy: Gnomon's 2012 Best of Term awards
Check out the best new work from students at the leading CG school - including a very bad day for Iron Man.
Monday, December 3rd, 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