Archive

Adobe's Todd Kopriva discusses the features requested by users that have been implemented in After Effects in 2013 and the ones that remain pending and will possibly be added in 2014. More on the AE team's blog.

Lee Perry-Smith from Infinite-Realities announced that he has relaunched the Triplegangers website, which offers quality 3D scans, character models and reference materials. More on Triplegangers.com. (Note: mature content)

Once again a number of companies are offering discount prices:

• 3D Scan Store are selling their full body scanned models at a 50% discount for the next two days. (News posted Jan 2nd, 2014) (more...)

Lost Decade Games' Matt Hackett takes a look at how HTML5 technology has evolved for developing video games. More on Gamasutra.

The Foundry has posted a video showing various renowned artists (Stephan Fleet, Russell Dodgson, Michael Maloney, etc.) discussing the new features offered by the recently released Nuke 8. Watch the video on Vimeo.

The LightWave 3D Group has made available a trial version of its time-based sculpting software, which is designed for working with animation and dynamic simulation cache files from any application. More on The LightWave 3D Group's website.

Otoy continues to offer previews of the upcoming 1.5 version of its renderer, this time showing how it can import Alembic animations with animated deformable geometry and render them interactively. Current owners of Octane can already download and test the 1.5 release candidate version. More on Octane Render's blog.

Allegorithmic have posted two new teasers of their upcoming 3D painting software that uses physics-driven particle brushes for simulating natural wear and tear effects: Teaser #2 - Particle Brushes, Teaser #3 - UV Reprojection.

Thanks to the EU Media Fund's recent approval of support for Blender development the software is bound to get a boost in functionality. According to Ton Roosendaal, who coordinates Blender development, funding and gifts from sponsors have allowed them to hire more people in the past for developing Blender, and the EU Media Fund will now help grow that team even more. They have set the goal to create a feature-length animated film for the next open movie project, which will be created by studios from different countries. As part of the project many open source tools for handling various tasks will be developed, including open source cloud technology, high quality physics simulation systems (particles, hair, cloth, fur, massive animation), and project, content and asset management tools. More on Blender.org.