3D Software Update: Modo 401 for Modeling, Animation, Rendering
New release for Luxology Modo with hundreds of news about: animation, modeling, texturing and rendering.
New release for Luxology Modo with hundreds of news about: animation, modeling, texturing and rendering.

WTools3D on June 2nd, 2009 released LWCAD 3.1, a powerful plug-in for LightWave 3D 9.x dedicated to provide the original package with advanced CAD modeling tools.

The free, open source, 3D Animation, Modeling and Rendering package Blender is available for download in its new release 2.49.

Malcolm Kesson, CG technical director publishes a useful and rich set of resources and tutorials for Pixar Renderman software.
Crimson FX is an effect generator for Quicktime movies and DV streams designed to make adding laser and light blade effects (and possibly other effects) as easy as possible.
I decided to write Crimson FX after reading a posting on BoingBoing about how to create rotoscoped Light Saber effects. Unfortunately, it required quite a chunk of [...]