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Ezequiel Mastrasso releases eze Shader Suite
Free collection of 3Delight and RenderMan shaders simplifies the process of lighting hair and fur.
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Forget polygons: create animation with atoms
IBM scientists create world's smallest stop-motion animation using ultra-powerful microscope.
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Gnomon ships Mechanical Character Design
Three-hour training video by Blizzard concept artist Joe Peterson explores how to create cool, realistic mechs.
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Molecular add-on brings multiphysics to Blender
Jean-Francois Gallant's new script unifies particle, cloth and fluid sims - and even pasta simulation.
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Download a free 16,000 x 8,000 HDRI file
Get Michał Jaszowski's ultra-hi-res sIBL package of a sunny winter landscape from his Full Frame site.
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Eye candy: the first Walking with Dinosaurs 3D trailer
The BBC's landmark series gets a movie makeover - but the teaser is more Disney than documentary.
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Jot Touch 4 brings pressure sensitive drawing to iPads
New Adonit stylus gives 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity, like a Cintiq - and it supports SketchBook Pro.
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Adobe kills Creative Suite, moves to Creative Cloud
We round up the facts - and bust some of the myths - about Adobe's licensing model for its creative tools.
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Caustic Visualizer for 3ds Max enters open beta
Real-time raytracing plugin for Max promises blazing-fast look dev, lighting and visualisation workflows.
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Videos: new advances in markerless facial capture
See two impressive new tech demos: one from ILM and one from Egypt's Snappers Systems.
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The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
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Smith Micro announces Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014
Upcoming releases of the figure tools to add Bullet physics, Pixar sub-Ds, interactive raytrace preview.
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Tutorial: Post-production in 3ds Max and Photoshop
Master core post-production skills to improve your interior renders with Jamie Cardoso's exclusive tutorial.
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Southpaw Technology releases Tactic 4.0
Open-source asset manager gets better database connectivity, HTML5 theming for building custom UIs.
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Eye candy: Pysop’s work on Wolfenstein: The New Order
See B.J. Blazkowicz face down rain and cyber-Nazis in the first teaser for the upcoming first-person shooter.
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Cool tech videos: X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D
Update to the particle plugin to add fluids, XPresso integration, full multi-threading. Check 'em all out here.
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Review: The Animator’s Survival Kit for iPad
With over 100 animated examples, Richard Williams' classic training manual is even better in iPad form.
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Quixel ships dDo 5.0
'Mega update' to Photoshop texturing tool adds Marmoset Skyshop HDR rendering, unlimited triangle count.
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Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 5.0
Production-management system gets new simple UI designed to let users filter out key tasks quicker.
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Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 2.2
Budget Maya crowd-simulator adds option to control actors via particles, new squash-and-stretch system.
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