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Get 15 different grass clumps in MAX, OBJ and FBX format
Download architectural visualisation pro Mischa Winkler's useful free asset. Licensed for commercial use.
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Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
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Eye candy: Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm cinematic
Watch characters from StarCraft beat the snot out of those from Diablo in the teaser for the upcoming "hero brawler".
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Unity 4.3 adds new 2D tools and blendshape animation
Updated, now shipping: there's a new markerless facial mocap plugin and the Unity Cloud program, too.
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IDV releases SpeedTree 7 Studio and Cinema
Plant-generation tool gets support for Sub-Ds, Alembic, animated growth and seasonal changes.
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Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
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Gnomon announces Master Classes 2013 line-up
Learn from 14 of the world's leading games and VFX artists in the online classes, from 16-31 December.
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Insydium announces X-Particles 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Powerful particle plugin adds new Fragmenter object, particle painting, plus wet maps, spray and foam.
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Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.6
Unbiased renderer gets shadow catcher material, spherical camera, better integration with 3ds Max.
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Next Limit announces new tools in Maxwell Render 3
Discover a new feature a day every day this week on the mini-site for the physically based renderer.
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Mercenaries Engineering unveils Guerilla Render
Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used on Total Recall on its public release on 4 December.
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Blender gets new user interface team
New team to streamline current UI development efforts. Blender Guru's Andrew Price included as designer.
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Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
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Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1311
Affordable match-moving tool gets 3D planar tracker, better scripting support. Pricing cut still further.
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Pixar releases RenderMan Studio 18
Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.
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Eye candy: Disney’s snow simulation system from Frozen
See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature.
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Otoy announces Octane Render 1.5
GPU-accelerated renderer to get support for Alembic, real-time animation scrubbing with motion blur.
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Watch Jeremy Birn’s Lighting & Rendering in Maya for free
Watch the Pixar TD's entire 2008 training DVD on his website, along with downloadable project files.
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Eye candy: Caminandes: Gran Dillama
A hapless llama has a fur-raising time in the Blender Institute's latest, Chuck Jones-inspired, open movie.
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Tyroe lets you rank your CG skills against other job hunters
Sign up for the beta of this innovative portfolio-creation and review service from the team behind cgCoach.com.
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