Maxon ships Cinema 4D R19
Now shipping. See videos of the new LoD system, motion graphics tools and media core; and the Radeon ProRender render engine.
Friday, September 1st, 2017
Autodesk ships Maya LT 2018
Cut-down version of Maya for game artists gets Mudbox-style vector displacement map stamping, updates to Graph and Time Editors.
Friday, September 1st, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.2
Update adds spline tools based on Boomer Labs' SplineTools plugin. Subscription users can run extra cloud instances free.
Thursday, August 31st, 2017
Download Graph Editor Redux 3.0 for Maya for free
Get Double Negative TD Ron Bublitz's neat - and newly updated - revamp of Maya's curve editor.
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
D3CRYPT3D releases new free beta of PolyPort
Interesting tool lets you encrypt 3D models to prevent piracy. Now works with Blender and Maya.
Monday, August 28th, 2017
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1708
Camera tracking app gets improved export to After Effects and Fusion; support for HEVC video compression.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Flowbox releases Flowbox 1.5
Promising new rotoscoping software gets option to track or view roto shapes individually, and to export them to After Effects.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Chaos Group buys Corona developer Render Legion
Both V-Ray and Corona keep their original dev teams, but tech will be shared between the two renderers.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Get Epic Games' free Composure Sample for UE4
Master Unreal Engine 4.17's new Composure real-time compositing system with these free project files.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Download Ahmed Shalaby's free JasmineRose Maya rig
Get this free stylised female character rig for Maya, with detailed facial animation controls.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Mainframe North releases Bool for Maya
Neat modelling plugin lets you use any native Maya Boolean operation non-destructively, and in real time.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Nevercenter releases Silo 2.5
First update to the lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool for nearly three years adds FBX, Collada support; overhauls the UI.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix 1.3 for Maya
Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017