Do you really need Photoshop?

| Features, Opinion | 07/02/2012 12:51pm Mari as an alternative to Photoshop

Will recent changes in upgrade pricing and new alternatives prompt the VFX community to abandon Adobe’s image-editing software? Here we ask ‘Do you really need Photoshop?’

3ds Max developments – Watch the sneak peek video

| News, Products | 07/02/2012 09:48am 3ds Max Sneak Peak Video screenshot

Watch the sneak peek video showing fixes for some of the common ‘Small Annoying Things’ in 3ds Max and find out what the priority developments are for future releases

Wanted: 3D World magazine and website feedback and comments

| Magazine | 06/02/2012 12:41pm 3dworld-composite153

3D World has a new editor! Let Richard Hill know what you think of the magazine and website…

Win a copy of Reallusion’s iClone5 Pro

| Competitions, Magazine | 06/02/2012 12:38pm iClone5 Pro competition screengrab

Win real-time animation tools worth $1,352! Enter the 3D World prize draw to win one of four packages featuring Reallusion’s real-time animation suite

It’s Super Bowl Sunday: Time for some whacky commercials

| Events, News | 05/02/2012 21:04pm chevy_ad_superbowl

Now’s your chance to sit back and watch some highly entertaining (and very expensive) TV adverts from Super Bowl 2012.

Animation: The Artists

| Shorts, Showcase | 03/02/2012 14:27pm Director Sean Mullen shares short film The Artists

Find out how 3D animation The Artists was created using 3ds Max, Photoshop, Flash, After Effects and Premier as Sean Mullen, director of Giant Creative, shares the inside story. Watch the short here too.

$800 of software for free: grab Daz Studio Pro, Bryce Pro and Hexagon for nothing

| News, Products | 02/02/2012 22:35pm Free 3D software from daz - daz studio pro, photoshop, hexagon, bryce

This is likely to be the most amazing offer you’ll have this year – a full suite of 3D models and 3D animation software products worth over $800. Yours at the click of a mouse!

The Foundry launches heavily subsidised educational licensing

| News, Products | 02/02/2012 15:14pm The Foundry Education logo

Leading VFX software developer, The Foundry, announces a discount in excess of 95% on its professional VFX software solutions for the education sector

Digital-Tutors releases 20 new tutorials

| News, Products | 02/02/2012 14:21pm Still from training video

Digital-Tutors is adding to its online tutorial library once again with over 37 hours of new training content for Maya, 3ds Max, Unity, Mari, ZBrush, RenderMan and more

Create a photo-real render with Cycles in Blender

| Guides, Tutorials | 01/02/2012 14:25pm tdw153-blender

Alex Telford takes you from concept to final image with Blender’s new render engine, in a series of six videos…

Create effects using Force Fields in Maya

| Guides, Tutorials | 01/02/2012 14:24pm tdw153-t_maya

Eric Keller demonstrates how to use a texture map to control nParticle effects, in a series of four videos…

Download 65 free cutout people from xoio-air

| News, Products | 31/01/2012 18:57pm xoio_cutout_people

Arch-viz studio xoio has just made 65 photographic cutout people available for download

Workstation review: InterPro IPW-SB [i7-G3] (ATI Edition)

| Hardware, Reviews | 30/01/2012 09:53am workstation_interpro

Find out why, whether you’re modelling or rendering, the IPW-SB reigns supreme, as James Morris puts the Sandy-Bridge based InterPro through its paces