fmx 2012: We could remake 300 in real time now Posted on May 11, 2012 by Jim Thacker Our revolutionary real-time TV pipeline could shake up movies too, says Zoic Studios' Loni Peristere.
CoreCG releases MentalCore 1.3 Posted on May 11, 2012 by Jim Thacker Update to Maya/mental ray toolkit adds new colour bleed SSS shader, support for SprayTrace renderer.
Act-3D ships Lumion Pro Posted on May 11, 2012 by Jim Thacker New high-end edition of the real-time visualisation tool ups output resolution, adds new export options.
fmx 2012: In search of virtual production Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jim Thacker At Europe's premier CG show, the buzz is all about virtual production. CG Channel went to investigate.
Wayne Robson to ship two cool free Mudbox tools Posted on May 9, 2012 by Jim Thacker Mudbox star to release import/export toolkit MudWalkerX and intelligent polygon-reduction tool ReDucto.
Next Limit announces RealFlow 2013 Posted on May 9, 2012 by Jim Thacker Latest update to fluid simulator adds powerful new Hybrido 2 fluid solver and new node-based scene graph.
Joe Alter demos cool new Maya blendshape tool Posted on May 9, 2012 by Jim Thacker Sculpt shapes outside of the rest pose or on top of one another with LipService 5.0's BlendShapes+.
One to try: appleseed Posted on May 8, 2012 by Jim Thacker It may be yet another open source physically based renderer - but it's being written specifically with production in mind.
Gnomon releases two-hour Pixar lighting masterclass Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jim Thacker New DVD sees Pixar Lighting TD Jeremy Vickery reveal the principles behind Efficient Cinematic Lighting.
modo 601 adds support for 3Dconnexion devices Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jim Thacker First modo 601 Service Pack adds certified support for the entire range of 3Dconnexion's 3D mice.