Pixologic announces ZBrush 4R3 update

| News, Products | 22/02/2012 14:45pm zbrush_4r3_hero_22022012

The latest version of Pixologic’s digital sculpting app is announced with enhancements to FiberMesh, Best Preview Render, and the interface, as well as the addition of Vector Displacement Maps and the NoiseMaker plugin

V-Ray for Softimage ships

| News, Products | 22/02/2012 12:12pm vray_for_softimage_car_22022012

The the newest addition to Chaos Group’s industry-standard renderer ships with quick and accurate global illumination, ICE support, complex mesh support with V-Ray Proxy, versatile shaders with V-Ray materials and much more

Blender 2.62 brings new Render Engine features

| News, Products | 20/02/2012 15:07pm Blender 2.62

The Blender Foundation has released the latest version of its open source 3D app – check out the bimonthly update now

New modelling plugin: Form for 3ds Max

| News, Products | 20/02/2012 12:19pm form_plugin_20022012

One-man 3ds Max developer, Marius Silaghi, has released a new modelling system that allows you to quickly and easily create models

Next Limit announces RealFlow RenderKit 2.5

| News, Products | 13/02/2012 14:38pm RealFlow

Next Limit is due to release an update to RealFlow RenderKit, its toolkit for generating procedural geometry from RealFlow scenes at rendertime. See what’s new…

ZSpheres modelling system for 3ds Max

| News, Products | 13/02/2012 13:01pm ZSpheres for 3ds Max

We catch up with Romanian artist and coder Marius Silaghi to ask him about his latest version of a ZSpheres-inspired modelling toolset for Max

3ds Max’s new mCloth cloth simulation system: watch the sneak peek video now

| News, Products | 12/02/2012 16:54pm 3ds Max updates

Autodesk has released another sneak peek video showing new simulation features that might be included on a future release of 3ds Max – watch the video now

Get ready for the transformation

| News, Products | 10/02/2012 10:25am Digital-Tutors Transformation

Digital-Tutors is working on something truly epic – the most requested training in the history of DT, and you can watch the sneak peek video here and now!

Vimeo Festival 2012: Show your work to the world!

| Industry, News | 09/02/2012 14:29pm vimeo_festival_1_09022012

Calling all filmmakers! If you’ve got a film you’ve been slaving over, now’s your chance to do something with it – enter the Vimeo Festival before 20 February for your chance to win a $5,000 grant or the grand prize of $25,000! Money aside, this festival is a great way to get your work seen by important people in the CG industry

Rango sweeps the 10th annual VES Awards

| Industry, News | 08/02/2012 16:24pm ILM's Rango

Industrial Light & Magic’s animated Western Rango scooped up four statues at the 2012 Visual Effects Society Awards last night

Maxon UK opens satellite office in London

| Industry, News | 08/02/2012 11:24am Maxon London Office

The new Pall Mall office will provide Maxon’s London-based customers with benefits: now you can get face-to-face technical support and same-day deliveries of Cinema 4D

RealFlow 2013: Watch preview videos online now

| News, Products | 07/02/2012 20:23pm RealFlow 2013 Hybrido dynamic fluid solver

Next Limit’s Luis Miguel Mora has posted five preview videos showing the upcoming version of its fluid dynamics software, Hybrido 2, at work

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

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.

Free Daz Victoria 5 figure with latest 3D World magazine

| News | 03/02/2012 11:19am Victoria 5 female model from Daz 3d

Grab a copy of issue 153 and you’ll get a complete model of Daz 3D’s best-selling female figure: Victoria 5. As well as the base figure and morphs, this set includes the Supermodel Full Body Morph, Bree Elite texture, a selection of 10 poses and more!