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Q&A: Dylan Cole
The top concept artist explains his workflow - and reveals why listening to metal can help your matte work.
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Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Maya 2014
Eric Keller's latest tutorial provides a complete eight-hour video guide to Maya's key toolsets.
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Autodesk launches pay-as-you-go pricing for Max, Maya
Cost of rental may appeal more to studios than freelancers, but user feedback has been broadly positive.
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Ephere ships Lab for 3ds Max
Interesting new tool lets non-coders create their own standalone 3ds Max plugins by wiring nodes in a graph.
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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.
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Dell unveils ‘world’s most powerful tower workstation’
Spec-sheet-busting T7610 unveiled alongside M4800 and M8800 mobile systems. Check out the stats here.
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10 questions for… ace mech creator Vitaly Bulgarov
The Blizzard and ILM star faces our barrage of questions about his 3D concept design workflow.
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See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max
Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.
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HP unveils the ZBook 14: the ‘first workstation Ultrabook’
Slim new ZBook becomes first mobile workstation to meet Ultrabook specs, but trades portability for power.
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Autodesk announces Flame Premium 2014
VFX and finishing system to get better 3D warping in Action, real-time grading, GPU-driven Batch pipeline.
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The Foundry announces Nuke 8.0
Update to add new 3D tools, 'huge' overhaul to Dope Sheet, and support for OpenEXR 2.0 and Alembic 1.5.
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10 questions for… creature creator Dominic Qwek
The Blizzard star and veteran of Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm faces our questions about his 3D workflow.
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AAA Studio ships FurryBall 4
Updated: GPU-accelerated renderer gets physically based GI, multi-GPU support, new 3ds Max edition.
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Side Effects announces Houdini 13 – kind of
It's due out on 31 October, but Side Effects is being coy about the features. Watch the teaser here.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp
V-Ray for SketchUp 1.6 beta becomes full-point release, adding proxies, V-Ray RT, need for dongle.
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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.
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Eye candy: the new V-Ray VFX and cinematics reel
Watch five minutes of V-Ray-based visual delights, including work from Pixomondo, Platige, Blur Studio.
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10 questions for… God of War concept artist Izzy Medrano
The designer and illustrator reveals his workflow and tells us why concept art is "bullshitting with visual aids".
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Get a free anatomy reference app from MARA 3D
Take a photo of yourself using one of the developer's apps and get another of your choice for free.
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Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013
Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.
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