The Mill’s It’s Not a Room campaign

| Commercial, Showcase | 13/05/2012 16:36pm the_mill_penguin_1

The Mill shares its VFX secrets for the ‘It’s not a room. It’s a residence’ campaign, featuring an elephant, giraffe and family of penguins. Find out how the three spots were created and discover a fun fact about the animal world

Friday Animation Fun: Ruin

| Shorts, Showcase | 11/05/2012 13:21pm ruin_biker

Check out this gripping CG animated short, Ruin, set in a post-apocalyptic universe and find out Wes Ball’s inspiration

Cool 3D arch-viz: House in the woods

| Commercial, Showcase | 09/05/2012 15:37pm notos-house-in-woods

Find out how architectural visualisation studio, Notos, created this evocative arch-viz render using 3ds Max, V-Ray, ZBrush, Photoshop and After Effects

Cool 3D art: Christopher Brändström’s heroic character

| Artwork, Showcase | 09/05/2012 12:28pm TDW155.artist.chrisbrand_home

3D artist Christopher Brändström created the cover star for issue 155 of 3D World magazine using ZBrush, Mudbox and Maya. Find out his inspiration…

Friday Animation Fun | Réflexion

| Shorts, Showcase | 04/05/2012 16:04pm reflexion_hero

Watch this cartoon-style CG short and find out how Yoshi Tamura and Paris-based creative outfit, Planktoon, created the painterly masterpiece

New CG spot for Smart Heimkehr

| Commercial, Showcase | 04/05/2012 14:52pm making_of_smart

Check out the recent Smart car ad with ground-breaking postproduction and visual effects by nhb, and find out how the spot was created as VFX supervisor Nhat Quang Tran walks us through the production process

Cool 3D arch-viz: Just Another Dusk and An Afternoon

| Showcase, Visualisation | 03/05/2012 14:19pm Just Another Dusk was based on a previous visualisation called An Afternoon

Find out how 3D artist Shi Yao created these stunning 3D visualisations using a combination of 3ds Max, V-Ray and Photoshop

Friday Animation Fun | New indie animation: NYC Taxi

| Shorts, Showcase | 27/04/2012 14:27pm taxi_hero

Find out how 3D artist Efim Armand used 3ds Max and V-Ray to create this crazy city joyride. With cool modelling and great arch-viz work thrown into the mix, NY city never looked as clean and sleek…

Indie Film Week | The making of 3D animation Godaizer

| Shorts, Showcase | 25/04/2012 11:15am robot

Find out how this epic animated short about monsters vs robots was created using a combination of Autodesk’s Maya, Adobe’s After Effects and Photoshop. Watch the film here too

New 3D animation: Jamie Caliri’s magical stop-motion film

| Shorts, Showcase | 20/04/2012 15:41pm rabbit_1

Watch Emmy Award-winning director Jamie Caliri’s music video for indie-rock group The Shins’ The Rifle’s Spiral track. See the making-of video here

Friday Animation Fun: King and Country’s Metamorphosis

| Commercial, Showcase | 20/04/2012 15:39pm m612-03l

Check out this new 3D animation from LA-based creative house King and Country for Motel 6

Cool 3D art: The best 3D images from 3D World readers

| Artwork, Showcase | 20/04/2012 11:50am In this image, all the plants were modelled by hand, and the stones were spread using the MultiScatter plug-in

Here’s a selection of the best new 3D renders created using a variety of software including 3ds Max, Cimena 4D, V-Ray, Photoshop, Nuke, Lightwave, Blender, Maya, mental ray and ZBrush. Find out how the 3D artists created these awesome 3D images…

New Cinema 4D animation: IV.10

| Showcase | 16/04/2012 11:00am iv.10

Check out how Beeple created this vibrant music animation and then download the free 3D source material to have a go at remixing it yourself

Friday Animation Fun: unnamed soundsculpture

| Shorts, Showcase | 13/04/2012 15:30pm unnamed5

Check out this free flowing animation, created using Krakatoa within Max, which brings to life a digital figure consisting of 22,000 points. Watch the film and the making of documentary…

Psyop releases new advert for Twinings ‘Gets You Back To You’ campaign

| Commercial, Showcase | 11/04/2012 15:32pm hill_girl

Find out how Psyop experimented to achieve the painterly effect in Twinings: Gets You Back To You adverts and watch the making of video here too