New features in Project Messiah Group's animation software include: AutoRig3 (the editable autorigger adds a finger controller, better default deformation,...

Softimage 2011 features include: Rendering Sandbox (automatically hosts external shaders and renderers without the need to build a custom shader...

An impressive game cinematic created by Tel Aviv-based Snowball VFX. "We’ve been busy doing an in house cinematic for the...

Belgian site TDT3D has compiled a list of European 3D animation schools. Also of note, TDT3D has recently celebrated its...

IntegrityWare has released Power Translators Universal, a new plugin for Max that allows users to import Pro/Engineer, Catia, SolidWorks, SolidEdge,...

Refractive Software has announced the release of 1.00 beta1 (an original versioning choice) of Octane Render, its GPU based, un-biased,...

Gamasutra has an interesting article where four musicians discuss the creative process of composing for downloadable games.

Video Games Live is a concert event featuring the best game music of all time performed by top orchestras and...

An interesting interview (PDF - German and English) in which Anselm discusses the work Prime Focus did for Avatar using...

Allegorithmic is offering a new automatic texture compression tool designed for reducing the size of already-produced textures, which even works...