Xsens MVM Awinda www.xsens.com Motion capture has been a quite involved task ever since its inception....

Cine Designer R2 www.cinematographydb.com Previsualization is the big thing these days. It used to be geared...

From the power of GPU rendering to the USD format, software tools for animation and VFX...

EXO-io www.exr-io.com The visual-effects industry has been using EXR as its go-to image file format since...

Thinkbox’s Deadline 8.0 deadline.thinkboxsoftware.com I’m a fan of Deadline. I don’t think that’s a secret. I...

The Foundry’s Katana www.thefoundry.co.uk Katana is a unique beast in the CG toolbox. Its functionality is...

Autodesk ReCap 360 www.autodesk.com Data acquisition has become an integral part of the visual-effects process. Data...

Pluralsight www.pluralsight.com So it’s been a while since I covered some of the places for online...

Modo 10 modo.thefoundry.co.uk Modo was getting some heat even before The Foundry acquired it and began...

Autodesk 3ds Max 2017 www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max Interestingly, Autodesk has split out their releases for the 2017 round...

Toon Boom Animation Storyboard Pro v5 www.toonboom.com   As someone who jumps back and forth between...

Hewlett-Packard Z Workstation store.hp.com The HP Z series of workstations continues to bring substantial power through...

On Wednesday during Epic Games’ “State of Unreal” opening session, Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades took the...

Software developer Maxon will be showcasing game and virtual reality solutions with Cinema 4D at the...

An innovative means of capturing minute facial performance information, used in the blockbuster superhero flicks Deadpool...

Maya 2016 I’m coming in a little late in the game since the release of Autodesk’s...

FTrack So, this is why I love innovation and competition. As much as I love and...

FumeFX 4.0 It’s been a little bit of a wait for the next iteration of the...

Silicon Valley software company Reallusion — specializing in 2D and 3D real-time animation solutions — has...

Perception Neuron Motion Capture Motion capture has become ubiquitous in the industry — or rather industries...