Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2017
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including this amazing, fully animated VR avatar of Björk.
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Deep FX ships Deep Rising FX 1.2 for LightWave
Affordable new particle-based fluid simulation plugin adds support for Bullet dynamics, OBJ mesh export.
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Richard Rosenman ships DOF PRO 5.2
Big update to the Photoshop plugin for adding depth of field to renders adds scores of power features.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray software development kit
VRay AppSDK is intended to accelerate penetration of V-Ray into new markets: from augmented reality to bath design.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Sneak peek: Affinity Photo 1.6
Now available in public beta: pro-grade $50 image-editing tool gets toggleable 'light UI' for layout work; freehand stroke stabilisation.
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
DGDM releases SLiB | Match
Handy new Maya plugin automatically creates a virtual camera matching the perspective of any photographic backplate.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017
ActionVFX releases 15 free burn mark textures
Download 15 black-and-white textures to complement explosions in VFX shots. Commercial use.
Monday, May 29th, 2017
Master clothing modelling with Marvelous Designer
Create production-ready assets with Gnomon video Cloth Modeling Pipeline with Marvelous Designer.
Saturday, May 27th, 2017
Autodesk and Microsoft unveil Azure Batch Rendering
New cloud-based rendering service will let users submit jobs directly inside 3ds Max and Maya. Sign up for the preview.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.16
Big update to game engine adds volumetric fog; plus new physics, animation and VR editing features.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Foundry releases Mari 3.3
3D painting package gets option to edit paint already committed to a model, plus new 'individual subscription' licensing system.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Faceware Technologies releases Faceware Live 2.5
Real-time markerless facial mocap system gets new tools for fine-tuning animations, built-in preview characters.
Friday, May 26th, 2017
Flowbox releases Flowbox 1.4
Promising new rotoscoping tool gets support for GUI scaling, improvements to the built-in image viewer and shape export to Nuke.
Thursday, May 25th, 2017