Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1
Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Free Resources
See Blender 2.73's new grease pencil tool in action
For You, Daniel M Lara's one-minute animated short, shows off the upcoming release's drawing tools.
Monday, December 8th, 2014
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.6
Latest update adds 'experimental' new 3D UI system, better emissive materials and character animation.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.8
Unbiased renderer gets object scattering, big speed boosts. Pure GPU rendering coming in version 4.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
e-on software releases CloudFactory Ozone 2015
Atmosphere-creation plugin gets new name, compatibility with Cinema 4D R16, but not much else.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1
VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Download 33 tree models free for commercial use
Updated: Get a range of tree models in MAX and/or OBJ formats from artist Krzysztof Czerwiński's blog.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Get Ahmed Shalaby's free Shiko 3ds Max character rig
Download this stretchy, stylised rig from the Egyptian character TD. Comes with face and body controls.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.7
Free app for mashing up 3D models gets new tools for analysing meshes before 3D printing them.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
Sunset Overdrive: turning mayhem into art
Art director Jacinda Chew reveals how Insomniac fused its dayglo influences into a winning shooter.
Sunday, November 30th, 2014
Unity 4.6 ships
Create UIs with in-world interactions with the engine's much-anticipated new interface creation system.
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
OLM Digital releases Color Key and Distance Gradation
Free After Effects plugins speed up keying and creation of glow effects, particularly for 2D animation work.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
ButterflyNetRender 5.15 ships
Updated: Versatile network render controller gets new render wizards, supports OS X as well as Windows.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014