There has been a bit of an underground homebrew fanbase for Microsoft's new controller, Kinect.
ZBrush 4: Free trial versions now available
Trial versions of ZBrush4 are now available. This is great news for anyone wanting to trial the latest release of Pixologic’s award-winning 2D/3D digital sculpting tool.
Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire Scaleform Corporation
"Another Autodesk purchase" I hear you cry as the news gets out that a cool $36 million CASH is to be spent on Scaleform.
V-Ray 2.0 Student Bundles & Educational Licences
We’ve had a lot of interest from students around V-Ray 2.0 lately, so I thought I’d shed a little more light on what’s new in the educational package.
CityEngine's a hit with Ministry of Sound
Producing a city in the shape of a Ministry of Sound logo might seem like a pretty tough feat, but not for award-winning agency Fold 7 and freelance motion design director Paul Clements, who used CityEngine to do just that.
New versions of MARI 1.2, NUKE 6.1v4 & NUKE 6.2v2 Out Now!
The Foundry team have been hard at work, announcing three new releases in as many days. There are some new cool features added to MARI to improve its 3D texture painting capability, and NUKE has loads of feature enhancements and fixes worth checking out. Here is a summary of what you can expect from the new releases:
Wings3D Release Made me Feel a Little Nostalgic
The release of Wings3D release 1.4 - the open source modeller - made me take a trip down 3d memory lane.
TACTIC Make New Video Tutorials Available
Are any of you into production asset management? Then this could be the ideal resource for you. Southpaw have just launched a new 'video page', where you can gain access to loads of useful resources for how to use their TACTIC software.
Mega Cities made easy with CityEngine
Constructing a whole city spread out over 385 square kilometres in just 4 weeks seems like a tall order. Base Productions faced this very dilemma when creating 6 CGI sequences for National Geographic's Mega Cities, to create the large Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. They managed to get around it by using CityEngine to procedurally generate buildings, and only concentrate on a few hero buildings to recreate the huge city. You can check out the opening sequence to see the final result, and although the buildings aren’t very detailed, it gives you a great feel for the density of the city and its size.
Autodesk 2011 Upgrade Promotion: Last days
If you want to upgrade to Autodesk’s 2011 products for less, then you may want to check out Autodesk’s Upgrade Promotion, but hurry there’s just over a week left.
TACTIC software's CEO speaks out
Gary Mundell, Southpaw’s CEO sheds some light on how using a production asset management system like TACTIC, can help studios better manage their production pipelines and streamline their workflows. Here's what he had to say...
Christmas CG Student Bundle – Save 20%
We have put together a great student Christmas CG bundle, for all you budding artists out there. The bundle combines our top-selling software and hardware products, giving you a great CG set-up for 20% less.
New release of Fusion 6.14 – Out Now
Eyeon are giving customers a special Christmas treat with the new release of Fusion 6.14, and a new discounted upgrade pricing for anyone upgrading from Fusion 5 or earlier.
Maxwell Render 2.5 – Out Now
The latest version of Maxwell Render has been released this week, with a neat new technology called Maxwell Fire. This is a new interactive rendering tool which gives users instant results when setting up a scene, so you can preview scene lighting and materials within seconds. This is pretty neat and should make a difference to your workflows.
Phoenix FD version 1.20 Released
The latest version of Phoenix FD, Chaos’s newest product is now available for download.
And the winners are...
As part of the new release of RenderMan Studio 3 and RenderMan for Maya 4, we ran a competition to give three lucky people the chance to win a limited edition Pixar’s RenderMan Walking Teapot.
TACTIC 3v1 - Now Available
The new release of TACTIC 3.0.0.v01 is now available for download. It's the latest update to TACTIC 3. Not sure how many of you have had a chance to look at version 3, but here is a quick low down.
Luxology’s modo 501 – Out Today
This is hot of the press: the brand new version of Luxology’s modo 501 has just landed and it’s packed with loads of new features.
V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max – Out Now
The long-awaited V-Ray 2.0 has been released, with some great new features and additions that will really give you better and faster results.