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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium 50% Off
Save 50% on a full version of Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Web Premium (Mac OS or Windows®) purchased through the Adobe Store or Adobe Customer Service.
V-Ray for Softimage is Now Available
The Chaos Group Team is happy to announce the official release of V-Ray® for Autodesk® Softimage®! V-Ray for Softimage is the newest addition to our suite of innovative rendering solutions, and we are happy to support the Softimage community!
HDRI Studio Pack 1.5
Introducing HDRI Studio Pack Version 1.5. It includes 17 more HDRI Studios you can use to light your scenes and renders. It’s fully compatible with Cinema 4D v13 and the new Physical Renderer. But, I’m most excited about the new animation presets that make it easy to render flicker-free animations using global illumination. If you [...]
Blender DVD training 8: Humane Rigging
Humane Rigging is a new training DVD in the Blender Open Movie Workshop series.
HIERO Launch Events Around The Globe
The most sought after new VFX tool is launching soon! HIERO is a brand new pipeline in a box from The Foundry tackling VFX shot management, conform and review. HIERO is the timeline NUKE has been waiting for. To celebrate, HIERO is launching around the globe, and we’d like you to join us! Come and [...]
Blender 2.62
The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.62. The 2.6x series is being targeted at including all work that happened in branches or patches past years. The Cycles render engine now has layers/passes, you can track objects inside videos now, have much better and faster boolean intersections and use great [...]
The V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Team Needs Your Feedback
Did you know that the V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino Beta program is still open? You still have the chance to test this product and submit ideas for improvement.
Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS6 #4
In this video You can see more advanced features of Photoshop Content-Aware technology. Straight from Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes, this video shares how to seamlessly move or remove an object from an image.
Unity 3.5 now available!
Unity 3.5 is now available for download! This latest release gives more power to artists and developers to minutely control complex elements while still preserving our famous ease of use and access. Whether you are an indie dude with a dream or a major studio mapping out your next big hit, Unity 3.5 makes the [...]
Archmodels vol. 108
Evermotion has just released a new set of architectural models. Archmodels vol. 108 includes 69 highly detailed models of food and porcelain dishes with textures, shaders and materials. It is ready to use, just put it into your scene. Scenes are not included. Total collection size: 1.85 GB in 24 files
Fixstars Is Looking For Test Users For Lucille Renderer
In order to meet the evolving demands of CG artists, Fixstars is looking for test users willing to provide them with feedback to the lucille alpha version.
Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS6 #3
In this video product manager Zorana Gee, gives a hint at what’s to come – creating dashed and dotted lines with just one click in Photoshop. A top requested feature brought to life!
V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Update Available
The Chaos Group team is pleased to announce an update to V-Ray 2.0 for Maya, offering new hair and fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and tighter Maya integration. The update is free for V-Ray 2.0 for Maya users.
The Foundry: New education software packages now available!
Th Foundry education software packages are now available, including discounts on NUKEX, MARI and HIERO.
DAZ Free 3D Software
The DAZ FREE 3D Software promotion is three award-winning 3D software products now available for the first time ever for free; this 3D software suite has a combined retail value of over $800!
Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS6 #2
In this video from Photoshop Product Manager, Zorana Gee, get an early look at a popular Facebook fan request – background save and the most powerful liquify tool.
Archmodels vol. 107
Evermotion has just released a new set of architectural models. Archmodels vol. 107 includes 116 highly detailed models of lamps with textures, shaders and materials. It is ready to use, just put it into your scene. Scenes are not included. Total collection size: 0.92 GB in 16 files
finalRender 3.5′s Hotfix: SP7a
cebas Visual Technology Inc. has just released a Hotfix for its Service Pack 7 of finalRender 3.5 and finalRender 3.5 SE as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon.
Maxwell Render Suite 2.6.10
Next Limit Technologies released a 2.6.1 patch for its unbiased 3D rendering engine Maxwell Render.
Service Pack 2 for Maya 2012
Autodesk just released an update for Maya: Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Maya 2012 Subscription Advantage Pack and Service Pack 2 for Maya 2012.
Design a Renault Twizy Competition
Renault UK has launched a design competition for students that asks to create a graphic theme for the Twizy model. In order to be entitled to enter as a student you must be at the age of 17 on or before the 31st August 2011 and in FE or HE Education. You must also be [...]
Thinkbox Software: XMesh MX Now Available
Thinkbox Software is happy to announce the official release of XMesh MX, the 3ds Max-specific portion of the XMesh Geometry Caching toolset. XMesh MX consists of the commercial XMesh Saver MX which is used to save geometry data to the hard disk, and the FREE XMesh Loader MX which is a scene object for loading, [...]
Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS6
In this video taken straight from the laptop of our Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, get an early look at some of the things the Photoshop team is working on for Camera Raw.
Real Ground Plants V1.1
12 super realistic ground plants for your highend 3d visualization with Vray for Cinema 4D and 3Ds Max.
Exocortex Species 1.0
Exocortex Species simplifies the process of human character creation from designing your character’s unique attributes, integrating sculpting results, to rig creation, even animation. With Species, you will create higher quality animated characters faster and at a lower cost, while avoiding the generic look that often come when purchasing off-the-shelf models. Exocortex Species supports both Autodesk [...]
Oscars 2012 Nominees
The 84th Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best films of 2011 and will take place on February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.
ZBrush 4R2b Now Availlable
With enhancements to the already powerful features in ZBrush 4R2, the all new ZBrush 4R2b takes the potential of features like the BPR Renderer and its real time filters to the next level. You’ll be amazed by the capabilities of the added functions in this latest version.
Massive Importer 1.5
Massive Importer Tool is a 3D third party tool which let you import MASSIVE Crowd Simulation in 3d package such a 3ds Max, Maya and Houdini. Massive Importer Tool 1.5 full version now is available for 3ds Max 2011 and 2012 x64.
RealFlow 2013 Previews
RealFlow 2013 will be released with new HYBRIDO solver. This solver has been created from scratch in order to replace the current one. In the videos you can see that is a pretty fast solver and gives a natural and realistic fluid simulations.
Mudbox Challenge – Armed and Dangerous
You are challenged to flaunt your Autodesk® Mudbox® skills by sculpting and painting the ultimate armed and dangerous character.


































