Blender 2.70
The Blender Foundation announced the release of the latest version of its open source 3D software. New features include: Cycles...
Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
Oculus VR announced the the second development kit for the Oculus Rift VR head-mounted display. More on Oculus VR's site.
Epic releases Unreal Engine 4 with full C++ source code to the public, offers new licensing model
Epic Games has released v4 of their game engine and development tools, along with the complete C++ source code, through...
Toufik Mekbel's VFX reel 2014
Toufik Mekbel has posted online his latest reel with some impressive work created with Max, FumeFX, PFlow and more. Watch...
Mitsuba 0.5.0
New features in Wenzel Jakob's free renderer designed for researching experimental rendering techniques include: multi-channel rendering, improved Python integration, UI...
Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen's 2014 VFX showreel & breakdowns
Danish director and VFX artist Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen has posted online his latest reel, along with a compositing breakdowns video...
Mozilla and Epic demo Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox
Mozilla and Epic have made available a video preview of Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox at near-native speeds. Watch...
"More robust fluid system" request on 3DS Max Uservoice under review
The request for a "more robust fluid system" in Max, which has recently reached the top General Feature Requests list...
SnowGUN Painter released
Clovis Gay's Kinematiclab has released his previously announced script for painting snow on selected objects, which provides a number of...
Custom V-Ray shaders
FX artist Sergey Shlyaev has implemented a number of BRDF models as V-Ray shaders. Check out a sample video and...
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