Clara.io hits 100,000 users; celebrates with a redesign
Popular browser-based 3D modelling, animation and rendering system gets new streamlined look.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Free Resources
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Side Effects releases beta of Houdini Engine for UE4
Updated: New plugin for using Houdini content inside Unreal Engine 4 now available for testing.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter
Master the next-gen texturing tool with a four-hour video guide from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Sneak peek: see Fusion 7 running on a Mac
New teaser shows Blackmagic Design's formerly Windows-only compositing app running on OS X.
Thursday, April 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
Thunder Cloud Studio releases GMH2 for Maya
Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Check out intriguing $19 paint app Paintstorm Studio
Natural media paint package acts like a hybrid of Painter and Manga Studio, with cool new tools on top.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 6
Multi-application network rendering controller now fully compatible with OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Visit Gnomon's free Making of Star Citizen event
Discover the design secrets of the popular space MMO at the school's Hollywood HQ tomorrow, 26 March.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Pixar makes RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Use for tools development is fine too. Ships with Maya and Katana plugins; Houdini and C4D to come.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
DNA Research ships 3Delight for 3ds Max 2.0
RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 9.6
Updated: VFX-friendly paint app gets new greenscreen and video-repair tools. Now out on Steam for $49.99.
Monday, March 16th, 2015