Reallusion releases Character Creator 3.0
Big update turns iClone companion tool into a standalone character generator for games and VR work.
Friday, September 28th, 2018
GoZ
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R8
Updated: Long-awaited update to the sculpting tool adds real-time Booleans, vector displacement meshes, eight new deformers.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
Pixologic unveils ZBrushCore
Updated with details of the full feature set: check out which tools are included in the new $150 edition of ZBrush - and what isn't.
Friday, September 30th, 2016
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2015 and Vue xStream 2015
Updated: Features include a new NPR renderer, GoZ support. Free Personal Learning Edition out now.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
E-on software releases PlantFactory 2015
New users of the plant-creation tool get simplified UI and materials workflow; power users get Alembic, Ptex and GoZ support.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Gnomon ships new guide to games environment art
Master hard-surface workflows in ZBrush with Nate Stephens' Environment Modeling and Sculpting for Game Production.
Monday, December 29th, 2014
Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
Monday, November 11th, 2013
The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
NewTek begins shipping LightWave 11.5
Well-received update adds Genoma rigging system, better After Effects interoperability, nice modelling tools.
Friday, February 1st, 2013
EIAS3D releases EIAS 9
New development team rolls out extensive update to the veteran Electric Image Animation System.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
LightWave 11.5 feature list 'announced'
Although probably not officially, given that it's on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Warning: may contain spoilers.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
NewTek announces new features of LightWave 11
Extensive update to feature former CORE technologies like Bullet physics: due to ship by end of year.
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Sculptris Alpha 6 ships
First Pixologic release of the free digital sculpting tool adds Mac OS X support and ZBrush-style navigation.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011