For 3D Motorcycle Lovers
Munich artist Maciek Ptaszynski is making his Blender 3D model of a Triumph Bonneville Cafe Racer available as a free download.
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5K Screen from HP
Hewlett Packard now also offers 5K resolution for the desktop with the Z27q monitor. In terms of price, the model beats its 5K competitor from Dell.
The Art of Editing Lies in Brevity
In the "90to5 Editing Challenge", the task is to cut a 90-minute feature film or documentary down to five minutes. The winners can be viewed here.
Polishing Facial Animation
Jason Ryan from iAnimate shows his tips and tricks in a video for putting the finishing touches on the facial animation of a CG character in Autodesk Maya.
Meteorite from Oklahoma
Digital Tutors caused confusion with a fake meteorite video on the social-news website Reddit. They have now published a free After Effects tutorial about it.
Impressive Face Capturing
Cubic Motion collaborated with 3Lateral to create a demo showing what is currently possible with their facial-capture animation technology for games.
Element 3D V2 Tutorial
First render scene and an immediate hit: D.L. Watson created an impressive CG spaceship with the new version 2 of Element 3D and reveals how in a tutorial.
Mari and Modo in the Indie Version
The Foundry is offering indie versions of the texturing tool Mari and the sculpting software Modo on Steam. The commercial tools are also cheaper until tomorrow.
Ink, Slide, Germany
Presented in June, now available - the first Adobe hardware has now also arrived in the digital diaspora of Germany.
Unreal Engine 4.6
Version 4.6 comes with 88 new features - including better lighting, better materials, built-in capture and playback, and new animation workflows.
Sculpting in Virtual Reality
With VR Clay, a 3D sculpting application is coming to the number-one favourite toy, the Oculus Rift - in conjunction with the Razer Hydra motion controller. And when it works, it looks great.
Animation Institute seeks TD, CG and Java talent
Archive: The Animation Institute sought a technical director, a CG artist and freelance support for Java web development.
Motion Capturing Without Markers
iPi Soft has released version 3.0 of its motion-capture software. New features include Kinect 2 support and improved tracking of body parts.
Millions of Point Clouds for Sparta
Sparta allows point clouds to be edited by hand drawing. A proxy function is now intended to enable the app to handle point clouds numbering in the millions.
Stream Autodesk University
Shortly before Christmas, only a few people can make it to Las Vegas, so Autodesk is offering the opportunity to watch the AU sessions online in real time.
Launch Trailer at Full Throttle
Ubisoft has released its launch trailer for the new racing game "The Crew". The impressive work with fast-paced CG car chases was created by Unit Image.
VFX Winter Academy 2014
Pixeltrain is holding the VFX Winter Academy in Markt Hartmannsdorf near Graz from December 15 to 19, 2014. Specialist knowledge for Maxon's Cinema 4D will be taught.
Fire in the CG House
Autodesk Labs' “Project Scorch” is a free technology preview with which users can more easily create fire simulations within a structure.
Use Photoshop in Chrome
Adobe has worked with Google so that Photoshop can also be used in the Chrome browser in the future.
GPU vs. CPU Rendering
Boxx Technologies has published a white paper with empirical benchmarks comparing GPU and CPU rendering.
CopperCube Version 5
Ambiera's CopperCube can be used to create 3D apps and games even without programming skills. Added features include terrain and iOS 8 support.
Painting Game Textures More Easily
Allegorithmic's 3D painting software Substance Painter is being released in version 1.0. The particle painter is intended to display materials and particle effects in real time.
Free Apple Watch
Since the real Apple Watch will be quite expensive for little performance, you can download a free 3D model of the watch for Cinema 4D here.
An Important Question …
... was finally clarified: embedding external online sources such as YouTube is not a copyright infringement — so ruled the European Court of Justice.
Free 3D Halloween Package
Video Copilot has a free Halloween 3D model package for Element 3D on offer — in case you want to put together a CG costume for this evening at short notice.
Spaceflight Sounds
Can we expect a big electro NASA sound remix soon? NASA has released around 60 historic audio files in its free sound library for free use.
The Secret of 3D Model Success
CGTrader has analysed which criteria make a 3D model successful on a 3D model marketplace, and has published the results in an infographic for the first time.
KeyShot Car Render Competition
It is competition season at the moment: KeyShot has announced the 2014 Car Render Competition: anyone who creates the most beautiful car rendering or animation can win a KeyShot Pro licence.
FaceFX 2015 Released
OC3 Entertainment makes facial animation in games easier. New languages were added with the 2015 release.
Houdini 14 Splash Screen Contest
This year, Side Effects Software is holding the second Splash Screen Contest to find the best CG image for the upcoming release of Houdini 14.
Call for Entries for the 22nd ITFS
The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is one of the world's best-known events for animated film. Entries can now be submitted again.
Everything Glitters!
Glittering vampires are a no-go, but shimmering dinosaurs, why not?: XDFX Studios shows how to make CG objects glitter in its Cinema 4D tutorial.
Unreal 4 Demo Environment
Senior environment artist Miguel Rodriguez provides an insight into the possibilities of Unreal 4 in his short demo.
Catch the Early animago Bird
The early-booking discount for this year's animago tickets still applies until tomorrow, September 30. So grab one of the Early Bird tickets today!
Free Blender Models
Chocofur is making objects such as flowers, USB sticks, furniture and iPods available free of charge as 3D Blender models. Here is the download.
Modern-Day Leonardo da Vinci Wanted
The 3D model marketplace CGTrader has announced a CG challenge in which a human character is to be created.
Lady to Download
Mery is a Maya character whose rig the creators Jose Manuel García Alvarez and Antonio Méndez Lora are now making available as a free download.
Car Render Competition
Humster3D has launched a new competition in which participants are to create a CG vehicle that is legendary to them. Here is all further information.
Maya LT and Unreal Link
With Autodesk's Maya LT 2015 Extension 2, content from Maya LT can be integrated directly into an Unreal 4 project and geometry can be exported to Mudbox.
Polypaint Importer for Maya
Janos Hunyadi is a character artist in Vancouver, Canada, and is now making his Polypaint Importer plug-in available as a free download.
123D Catch for Android
123D Catch can be used to turn a set of digital photos into a 3D model. The Android version is now also available.
Colorway for Cinema 4D
In July, The Foundry released the Colorway application for design adjustments. Now the configuration tool's kit for Maxon's Cinema 4D is appearing.
Knald Releases Lys in Open Beta
Lys is a GPU-based app from Knald Technologies for converting HDRs and generating Radiance, Irradiance and Specular Textures.
ftrack Version 3.0
The Swedish project-management platform ftrack was presented in version 3.0 at Siggraph with many new features.
Massive 7.0
Massive Software presented version 7 of its Massive crowd and character animation system at Siggraph. Here is an overview of all the features.
Space-Tutorial
Infinite expanses: Multi-part tutorial with Unity. For all those who have always wanted to create a game setup for a space shooter.
New MoCap Programs from Vicon
Vicon released the retargeting and solving software Pegasus at Siggraph in Vancouver. The company also revealed news about Blade 3.
Pixels to Voxels
Noah Paessel’s Blender script transforms textures from images into voxels. The artist got the idea from the painter Vincent Van Gogh and his picture "The Starry Night".
Sci-Tech Oscar 2015 Consideration List
The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee has presented the technology developments being considered for an award in the coming year.
Baking Geometry with Sequoia
Thinkbox Software presented its new standalone tool Sequoia at Siggraph. It is intended to make it possible to bake particles and point-cloud data into geometry.
Scene Scanning Software Version 5.3
Scene was developed specifically for the Faro Laser Scanner Focus 3D. The software processes and manages scan data. Here is an overview of the new features in release 5.3.
Technology Short Film Competition
The Technoseum has launched a short film competition for students at film schools on the theme “That Would (Not) Have Happened with Technology.” Here is all the further information.
Photoshop Plug-in MixColors 1.2
Anastasiy has released version 1.2 of its Photoshop plug-in MixColors. It is intended to let digital colors be mixed like real, analog paints.
Free Music and Sound Effects
Author Jose Antunes has compiled a useful overview at Pro Video Coalition of websites offering free audio files for editors and video filmmakers.
Free New Yorker Animation Articles
As part of a website redesign, the New Yorker is making every article published since 2007 available free of charge – including many on animation.
Win C4D Competition
In Maxon's Win C4D competition, entrants must create a knock-out animation with Cinema 4D Lite and AE CC by the end of September. The grand prize is a Cinema 4D Broadcast package.
ICube SplineLand for 3ds Max
The ICube SplineLand plug-in can be used to create spline-based terrains in 3ds Max. Click here to download it.
Colorway from The Foundry
Yesterday, The Foundry released its new configuration tool Colorway. It allows designers to change their creations quickly and customers to adjust designs.
Free 3D Ram’s Head
Usable for Satan, a demon, or simply as a ram's head: the free high-resolution 3D head provided by 3D Scan Store. Available as a .ztl or .obj file.
AE Ocean Preset
Artist Douglas Stahl is making an Ocean Preset for Adobe After Effects available as a free download.
Free HDRI Set
HDRI Hub is treating everyone to a round of free HDRIs! The set includes a nighttime city view with an 8K panorama and a 4K HDRI map as well as backplates.
Making-of of the cinematic for “The Witcher 2”
The closing date for entries for the animago AWARD 2014 has been extended to 21 July. Platige Image's cinematic was nominated in the "Best Postproduction" category in 2012.
After Effects Preset
Of interest to motion graphics artists: the AE preset Ouroboros can be used to create various trimmed strokes on a path.
Maya LT 2015 Extension 1
Autodesk has released the first extension for Maya LT 2015. The update is intended to improve the animation experience with Maya LT and optimize control options.
Akeytsu from Nukeygara
How? So: French software developer Nukeygara has announced the release of its first tool, Akeytsu, for October 2014.
The Foundry Sessions
The Foundry is launching a series of online sessions; the first, about The Foundry's Collective package, takes place on June 19 at 8 p.m. German time. Click here to register.
Online Demo for Maya LT
Costs nothing, just one hour of time: Autodesk online demo for Maya LT 2015 on Thursday, July 3. Further information and registration via the following link.
New Freelancer Marketplace
The 3D Spotfinder service wants to bring freelancers and companies together – using a map-based approach.
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer version 3 1.4.12 has been released: CLO Virtual Fashion Inc has added several new features and bug fixes to its real-time cloth-simulation tool.
MET Artworks Online
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put 400,000 artworks from its collection online as JPEG image files that can be used free of charge for scholarly purposes.
Careful, spiky! – Nike Hypervenom
Completed a beautiful project? Submit it to the animago AWARD 2014! Polynoid submitted "Nike Hypervenom" in 2013 and was nominated in the "Best Advertising Production" category.
Making-of “moTUBAik”
Completed a great still? Submit it to the animago AWARD 2014! The project “moTUBAik” was nominated in the “Best Still” category in 2011.
Hand MoCap
Developer Brekel has released a preview video and beta version of its Pro Hands application, which enables motion capture of hands and fingers.
SketchBook Pro 2015
Autodesk's drawing tool is expected to be released in its 2015 version in the summer. Here you can find the new features.
The T-Rex of the water
Reminder: Entries can be submitted for the animago AWARD 2014! An entry that once made it to the final selection, almost as big as Godzilla: "Sea Rex 3D".
Find Screenwriters Online
The Scriptmakers website has been online since the beginning of April. It is intended to help filmmakers find a writer for their project.
Make Some Sound!
Video Copilot has released MotionPulse, a sound-design tool package that can be used to create sound effects for motion-design projects.
3D Printing with Meshmixer 2.3
Meshmixer is a free Autodesk tool that can be used to create, edit, and remix mesh models – direct 3D-printing support is new.
Free Material Pack for Cinema 4D
CG artist Justin Cowdin has released a free material package for Cinema 4D.
New Tools for HP Workstations
HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) 7.0 enables workstations to be operated remotely from a Windows 8 tablet.
Free Water Drops Displacement Maps
The V-Ray Materials website is currently providing ten free high-quality Water Drops Displacement Maps.
Houdini Engine for Maya and Cinema 4D
According to Side Effects Software, artists will soon be able to use Houdini technology in Maya or Cinema 4D. The Houdini Engine for Maya is expected to enter beta as early as May 1.
FMX 2014 – The balance sheet
FMX drew a very positive conclusion in 2014: around 3,000 visitors came to the Haus der Wirtschaft every day, including a large number of respected personalities from the industry.
New GeForce GTX Titan Z
At the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, Nvidia presented its powerful high-end graphics card.
Maya LT on Steam
The software tool for indie game developers will be available on Valve's Steam platform from Tuesday, April 22.
Taming the Dragon Made Easy 2, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ryse
Three months before the cinema release, FMX gives an insight into "Dragon Taming Made Easy 2". Also included: presentations on Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" and the Crytek game "Ryse".
The next Avatar, The Return of the First Avenger and Battlefield 4
Further programme highlights cast a shadow over the upcoming FMX. Including blue avatars, a captain superhero and 47 samurais.
Insights into Black Desert
Pearl Abyss has released a video about Black Desert—a character creation system for game characters that is still in closed beta.
Fuse 1.0 on Steam
The California-based company Mixamo presents version 1.0 of its 3D Character Creator on the Steam platform.
Environmentally Conscious Films Wanted
The Deauville Green Awards in French Normandy will be held for the third time this year. Entries can still be submitted until April 18.
SketchUp 2014
The 3D tool SketchUp has received a major update from Trimble Navigation Ltd. Find out here which new features have been added.
Tablets to Try Out
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 3, the products can be tested at the new Wacom Experience Center in Berlin.
Neutral Head Scans
3D Scan Store has released ten neutral head scans for 25 British pounds as well as three new Expression Packs with 36 facial expressions. Here are the head scans.
The Weapon of Choice
Humster3D, a 3D model store, has launched the 3D Weapon Render Challenge. The best three 3D weapons can win many prizes.
Rent Cryengine
Indie game developers have reason to rejoice: from May, Crytek's Cryengine can be used for a monthly subscription fee of 9.90 euros.
Real-Time Review with Frankie 2.3
With Frankie from Cospective, videos can be played and discussed interactively in real time at different locations.
“The Inner World” Nominated for the German Computer Game Award
The 2D point-and-click adventure game "The Inner World" is nominated for the German Computer Game Award in the "Best German Game" category.
A light bulb on a journey
Our new DP issue focusing on "Careers" will be published on 4 April. As a taster, we present a making-of of the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences here.