This upgrade to Luxion’s real-time renderer makes light work of product visualisation and look development, says Steve Jarratt
Steve Jarratt test-drives e-on’s bundle of an updated improved population plug-in and a brand-new plant-editing extension
Steve Jarratt puts the latest incarnation of the HDRI creator through its paces, and finds the results very illuminating
Wacom visited 3D World recently to demo the new Cintiq 24HD widescreen display
Wacom visited 3D World recently to demo its two new products. First up, is the Wacom Inkling
Interactive Data Visualisation Inc. has this week released version 6.0 of its procedural vegetation modeller, SpeedTree
Krakatoa MX 2, Thinkbox Software’s volumetric particle renderer, has been unveiled at SIGGRAPH
Procedural Inc. Pascal Mueller has given 3D World a preview of CityEngine 2011 ahead of the full presentation at SIGGRAPH 2011
A new edition of the fluid dynamics simulation includes a new learning edition plus a range of new features
Produced in conjunction with the Barbican Art gallery, Watch Me Move is a guide to the history of animation
Several sessions at last week’s FMX conference dealt with creating humanistic characters. Double Negative took the opportunity to discuss the studio’s approach to Paul
Scott Ross, ex-general manager of ILM and founder of Digital Domain, was at FMX last week to speak about the future of the visual effect industry
Having completed work on Rio, Andrew Beddini describes the workflow that Blue Sky maintain in order to keep on schedule with a relatively small workforce
Larry Gritz of Sony Picture Imageworks has explained how the studio recently moved to an unbiased, all-raytracing workflow based on the Arnold render engine
Pixologic has updated its asset interchange system, GoZ, enabling users to work seamlessly between ZBrush and their modelling/rendering app without having to continually save and re-open files
