Win a copy of MODO 701, worth £999

| Competitions, Magazine | 18/06/2013 10:39am TDW171.comp.dynamics

Win one of three copies of The Foundry’s fast, do-it-all VFX tool, MODO 701 – worth £999 each!

Movies to watch for 2013: Pacific Rim – trailers, news, concept art

| Movies, Showcase | 12/06/2013 14:00pm pacific-rim

Updated: See new concept art and watch the new trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s epic sci-fi movie here…

CG Awards 2013: VFX Feature Film of the Year

| Magazine | 04/06/2013 16:25pm flight

In our CG Awards, we are offering you the chance to suggest nominations in each category. Today it’s VFX feature films – which ones rocked your world?

CG Awards 2013: Who should win?

| Industry, News | 29/05/2013 17:11pm cg-awards

The 3D World CG Awards recognises the work of the entire CG community and this year for the first time we want YOU to tell US who should be nominated in each category

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…

Groundbreaking studios of 2012: The Senate

| Features, Industry | 02/05/2013 21:03pm The Senate

From arch-viz to visual effects, Mark Ramshaw meets the studios that made their mark on the CG industry in the last year. This week, The Senate…

Model and texture assets for VFX in Maya and ZBrush

| Guides, Technique, Tutorials | 02/05/2013 14:57pm 3dw167tutnever

3D artist Francisco Martinez shares the modelling pipeline he used on his short film project It Never Ends

Get 3ds Max Essentials: Volume 2 – on sale now!

| Magazine, News, Products | 29/04/2013 15:48pm maxwpcrop

Master core skills for design, games and VFX work with our new 228-page collection of 3ds Max tutorials, complete with project files and over 14 hours of video training

Review: Smoke 2013

| Applications, Reviews | 24/04/2013 14:00pm 3dw169revsmoke

Now priced for mere mortals, this finishing software promises to be a useful tool for your edit workflow. Mike Griggs fires it up

Groundbreaking studios of 2012: Storm Studios

| Features, Industry | 23/04/2013 10:42am Storm Studios

From arch-viz to visual effects, Mark Ramshaw meets the studios that made their mark on the CG industry in the last year. This week, Storm Studios…

Groundbreaking studios of 2012: Fido

| Features, Industry | 02/04/2013 14:42pm Fido

From arch-viz to visual effects, Mark Ramshaw meets the studios that made their mark on the CG industry in the last year. This week, Fido…

VFX short: 747 Mid Air Collision – Averted

| Shorts, Showcase | 27/03/2013 11:47am plane crash

Great to see this exciting CG film from director Aristomenis (Meni) Tsirbas, showing two planes narrowly missing each other low in the sky. Check out this CG jet shot created with LightWave…

Groundbreaking studios of 2012: Iloura

| Features, Industry | 26/03/2013 13:44pm Iloura

From arch-viz to visual effects, Mark Ramshaw meets the studios that made their mark on the CG industry in the last year. This week, Iloura…

Building Dredd’s Mega-City One

| Features, Making of, Movies | 20/03/2013 14:00pm 3dw166featdredd

Neil Miller, VFX art director on Dredd, explains how he created Mega-City One’s latest movie look

Review: Electric Image Animation System 9.0

| Applications, Reviews | 12/03/2013 14:23pm 3dw167revelect

Lance Evans reckons that a powerful and evolutionary upgrade, plus a few kicking features, make this a very impressive release