CGarchitect: fryrender is the unbiased spectral renderer developed by Feversoft. All the elements involved in the render (materials, lights, cameras, ...) are based on physically accurate models up to the point that when you hit render a simulation of the real behavior of light happens inside.

CGSociety: NaturalMotion to launch morpheme 2.0 at NVISION 2008 with integration of NVIDIA PhysX technology.

BlenderNation: Shapeways is an online 3D printing company, you may have read about Bart's past involvement with them. In this interview, they show off some of the objects that were made by contestants using... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

BlenderNation: Blender 2.47 was released today! Continuing Blender 2.4x series, Blender 2.47 is a bugfix release to stabilize the "Bunny Release", serious effort has been put in tracking bugs and fixing... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

MAX Plugins.de: Adam Pletcher has kindly recompiled the ColladaMax exporter for 64-bit Max 2009. Based on ColladaMax v3.05B, you can download it here.

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v4.1.12 are:- mental ray melt shader and phenomenon are now hidden in the material browser- Importing SD rigid bodies over existing objects now works wi ...

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v1.0.374 include:- Optimised assignment of shaderids values for shader pass- Adds per eye ray counts for ray types in diagnostics- Fixes bump basi ...

MAX Plugins.de: Changes for v8.2 are:- Adds support for Max 2009 (32-bit and 64-bit)- Alienbrain now comes with a 64-bit SDK for custom integration- Enhanced bucketing suppor ...

BlenderNation: The Mexican city of Guadalajara is being invaded by a small army of funny looking TENTAhooDs. Sightings are posted on a weblog, and if you manage to find one it's yours! Mexican designer... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

CGSociety: Latest Version of NVIDIA CUDA 2.0 is released to production in C language programming environment.