Maxon ships Cinema 4D R15
Updated and now shipping: New release features better GI, AO and network rendering - and even architectural grass.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
Cinema 4D
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Blender beta
Blender joins growing list of apps to work natively with the GPU-based renderer. Calls for Modo growing.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Render Rocket readies LaunchPad
New tool to let users submit jobs to firm's cloud-based render farm from inside 3ds Max, Maya or Cinema 4D.
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Otoy ships Octane Render 1.2
Big update to GPU-based renderer adds volume fog, bokeh effects; better multi-threaded performance.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
Solid Iris Technologies ships Thea Render 1.2
Hybrid biased/unbiased renderer gets final-quality GPU-based engine, new 'field mapping' technology.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Adobe ships After Effects CC, includes Cinema 4D Lite
Update also adds 'live link' with Cinema 4D, better Warp Stablizer, roto tools and 3D Camera Tracker.
Thursday, June 20th, 2013
Download 150 new Xfrog plant models for free
Get 38 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Monday, May 27th, 2013
Cool tech videos: X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D
Update to the particle plugin to add fluids, XPresso integration, full multi-threading. Check 'em all out here.
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Otoy announces Octane Render Cloud Edition
Developer aims to allow "every single 3D app" to process render jobs in the cloud on up to 128 GPUs.
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Maxon posts epic 200-part Cinema 4D video series
Dr. Sassi's JET Production Notes videos to be released on Cineversity between now and 18 March.
Monday, February 4th, 2013
MindBomb releases Gfx Hotkeys 3.0
Updated: new free Lite edition of the iOS app lists keyboard shortcuts for key 3D, VFX and graphics packages.
Monday, February 4th, 2013
e-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2
Updated: New trial version available of the vegetation instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D.
Friday, February 1st, 2013