The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischief
Cult $25 pen-sketching tool becomes The Foundry's first truly mass-market digital art product.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Free Resources
IKinema adds graph editor to WebAnimate
Updated: Free browser-based service gets new tools for stitching and retargeting motion clips.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 7 for free
No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Download free spherical HDRIs from Panocapture
Get three 16k x 8k City Dusk panoramas in HDR format, plus 23 accompanying backplate images.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Imagineer Systems ships mocha Plus 4.1 and Pro 4.1
Free update to planar tracking tools adds support for multi-part OpenEXR 2.0 files and exporting open splines.
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Trimble ships SketchUp 2015
Now fully 64-bit, and there's no longer any need to buy separate licences for Windows and Mac.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Luxion ships KeyShot 5.1
Renderer gets new procedural materials, better instancing tools; imports animation in C4D format.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Sketchfab now lets you download 3D models
Make your own files available to all, or download free models from HTC, Microsoft and the British Museum.
Friday, October 31st, 2014
3D Systems launches Geomagic Sculpt and Touch
Model in 'virtual clay' with the new sculpting software and rebranded, more affordable haptic 3D stylus.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Try WingBin: a free browser based RAM preview system
Play back and annotate shots for review from any device with John Martini and Shawn Olson's neat tool.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Reallusion 'pre-launches' iClone 6
Update to real-time animation app adds support for PhysX, SpeedTree plants, Allegorithmic Substances.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
The extraordinary making of David Levy's PLUG
Updated: The Prometheus concept artist's VFX short turns Terminator's story on its head. Watch it here.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
The Foundry releases free Sketchfab kit for Modo
Publish models to view interactively online in any WebGL browser from directly within Modo 601 and above.
Monday, October 27th, 2014