Amazon buys Thinkbox Software
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
Autodesk to raise price of its software maintenance plans
Cost of maintaining a perpetual licence of Max or Maya to rise 38% by 2019, phased in year by year.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Blackmagic ships new control panels for DaVinci Resolve
Grading software gets two low-cost hardware control surfaces. Free version now available for Linux.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Autodesk releases Maya 2017 Update 3
Sizeable update to Maya adds new motion graphics, animation, hair grooming and fluid simulation tools.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix V5 for 3ds Max
Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke
Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2017 product roadmap
Features to include new cinematics toolsets, a scriptable rendering pipeline, and a new C# job system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Download TextMesh Pro for Unity for free
$95 Unity Award-shortlisted replacement for the native UI text and text mesh tools now free to all.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Sketchfab's models of the month: February 2017
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including mechs from Weta Workshop and Relic Entertainment.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
OptiTrack launches its first active optical tracking system
New LED-marker-based OptiTrack Active system is aimed at 'theme-park scaled' VR projects.
Monday, February 27th, 2017
Eye candy: SideFX's 2017 Houdini games and VR reel
Two minutes of the best games work created in Houdini, from Uncharted 4 to amazing cinematics.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop releases Introduction to Arnold
Master lighting and rendering in Arnold with this complete primer from The Mill's Robert Chapman.
Sunday, February 26th, 2017