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

McDonald’s Earth’s Treasure spot and Making of video now online

| Commercial, Showcase | 13/02/2012 12:01pm Earths Treasure making of video

See how the amazing VFX and animation are bought to life in this spot for Mc Donald’s as The Mission’s shares its making of video online

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

Sunday special: It’s a bug’s life in the new Superbowl Chevy spot from Psyop

| Commercial, Showcase | 12/02/2012 09:20am Chevy Sonic 'Joy' Superbowl 2012 commercial

Find out Psyop created photorealistic bugs using a combination of 3D software in this awesome Chevy spot for Superbowl. Watch the full commercial here too

Friday Animation Fun: The Cursors Curse

| Shorts, Showcase | 10/02/2012 15:30pm Still from 3D animation The Cursors Curse

Find out how 3D animation The Cursors Curse was created using Maya, Nuke and After Effects as director Richard Gillies takes us behind the scenes. Watch the short here too

Lost in Motion: Watch this stellar short and find out how it was made

| Shorts, Showcase | 10/02/2012 14:44pm Still from Lost in Motion

Prepare to be amazed as director Ben Shirinian joins with Crush to show the power and poise of ballet in this evocative new short. We talk to VFX outfit Crush about its creation…

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

Watch The Amazing Spider-Man trailer online now

| Movies, Showcase | 07/02/2012 20:46pm Amazing spider man trailer

Check out The Amazing Spider-Man official trailer from Sony Pictures. This is the first movie to be shot in 3D using 3ality Digital’s new small, lightweight rigs

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

Short Cuts: Wing It

| Shorts, Showcase | 07/02/2012 15:11pm

In issue 153 of 3D World, we talk to a group of students about how they tackled some hair raising challenges on new short Wing It. Watch the film here and grab a copy of the mag for the full making of article

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