Cool VFX: DirecTV’s new app

| Commercial, Making of, Shorts, Showcase | 17/05/2013 14:00pm 3dw167projects4

This new 30-second animation from international media studio Kompost introduces Viggle

Movies to watch for 2013: Pacific Rim – watch the new trailer here

| Movies, Showcase | 17/05/2013 11:00am pacific-rim

Updated: Watch the new trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s epic sci-fi movie here…

LightWave tutorial: Make icicle-like fur and hair

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 16/05/2013 14:45pm 3dw167qa3

Neil MacCormack breaks out LightWave 11’s new FiberFx tool to create a hairy monster

Groundbreaking studio: Piranha

| Showcase, Visualisation | 16/05/2013 14:42pm Piranha

Meet Piranha, winner of the CG Awards Arch-Viz Animation Award 2012 for The New World Trade Center project, and find out what makes a great arch-viz animation…

Material gain: from our reader gallery

| Artwork, Showcase | 16/05/2013 14:00pm onelastlookcrop

A steep learning curve for artist Carlos who had to really work on his cloth simulation skills to perfect this image

Meet the artist: Tyler Russo

| Artwork, Showcase | 15/05/2013 15:31pm knightmodelcrop

Here we meet Tyler Russo – a young talent whose work Frank the Death Knight totally impressed us. Read on to find out how such a young person came to be producing 3D art that wows like this does

Behind the scenes: Oz the Great and Powerful

| Features, Making of, Movies | 15/05/2013 14:46pm 3dw168featoz

In Oz the Great and Powerful, Sony Pictures Imageworks conjures a CGI vision of an iconic fantasy world. James Clarke discovers the magic behind the effects

Gun-totin’ game character from our gallery

| Artwork, Showcase | 15/05/2013 14:00pm ginnycropface

An image based on a game character from the game AVA Online – meet the gun-toting Ginny

Cool VFX: The Salvation Army’s ‘Simple Dreams’

| Commercial, Making of, Shorts, Showcase | 14/05/2013 14:16pm 3dw167projects3

The message ‘helping make dreams come true’ is brilliantly encapsulated in this new spot

Pick of the Week

| Shorts, Showcase | 14/05/2013 14:00pm elmonstruo

You will love Rob Redman’s pick this week. It is 100% CG even though it looks like a cardboard stop-motion piece. Clever and memorable

Buy the latest issue of 3D World today with one of our digital editions

| Latest Issue, Magazine | 14/05/2013 12:00pm coverdigitaleditions

Wherever you are in the world you can buy the latest issue of 3D World today with one of our digital editions

Win a copy of iClone Animation Pipeline!

| Competitions, Magazine | 13/05/2013 16:01pm comp8

Enter now for your chance to win one of four copies of this groundbreaking real-time animation toolkit worth $4,795!

Tutorial: Create custom 2D graphics for use in modo

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 13/05/2013 15:08pm 3dw167qa2.jpg

Creating custom graphics for your 3D models is an excellent opportunity to exercise your design and texturing muscles – Mike Griggs shows you how to do it

New animated short: Stardust

| Shorts, Showcase | 13/05/2013 12:47pm stardust

Art meets science in Stardust, a new short by Dutch film production company PostPanic. Watch it now and find out more about the project in our new issue

Cool VFX: Banque Populaire

| Commercial, Making of, Showcase | 10/05/2013 14:39pm 3dw167projects2

Zeitguised used Cinema 4D and V-Ray in tandem to create this seamless spot for Banque Populaire