July 2, 2020
Nifty work from Tangent Animation makes Cycles a Hydra delegate in Houdini's Solaris look dev toolset. Read More »
May 28, 2020
See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks. Read More »
May 20, 2020
Sizeable update to the renderer adds new options to bake global illumination to textures or point clouds; macOS Catalina support, Read More »
May 11, 2020
USD-native Maya layout, look dev and lighting toolset now supports V-Ray and RenderMan. Freelancers can use it for free. Read More »
May 7, 2020
Free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC software gets new Houdini plugin with Solaris support, plus tonemapped 3D previews. Read More »
May 2, 2020
Powerful set of Mari add-ons gets a new Substance Designer live link and a material presets system. Read More »
April 24, 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library. Read More »
April 3, 2020
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur. Read More »
March 18, 2020
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools. Read More »
November 27, 2019
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools. Read More »
November 6, 2019
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph. Read More »
October 24, 2019
Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free. Read More »
August 21, 2019
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model. Read More »
July 31, 2019
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways. Read More »
July 29, 2019
Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects. Read More »
July 23, 2019
Maya crowd animation software gets standalone crowd layout tool, plus new live link plugin for round-tripping shots to Unreal Engine. Read More »
July 19, 2019
'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting. Read More »
July 2, 2019
Popular Maya plugin on sale to US studios again - and with a 15% discount until 31 July to celebrate. Read More »
June 13, 2019
Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved. Read More »
June 6, 2019
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code. Read More »
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