AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
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Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2020
Updated: Sapphire 2020 ships. Release adds OpenColorIO support, new lens whacking effect.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.4
Landscape-generation software's new path tracing render mode is now officially production-ready.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.7 and Character Creator 3.2
Real-time 3D character tools get new Digital Human Shader for more realistic skin, eyes and hair.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Abvent ships Artlantis 2020
Architectural renderer gets new image denoiser, light portal system, more types of 3D grass, and RAL colour presets to mimic real paints.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Master the anatomy of the back and shoulder muscles
Improve your figure drawing with The Gnomon Workshop's essential guide to artistic anatomy principles.
Monday, November 18th, 2019
Download 40 free blood textures from ActionVFX
Get free blood spots, spatters and trails, for use in VFX work. 32-bit PNG files, for commercial use.
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Boris FX ships Silhouette 2020
Sizeable update to the rotoscoping and paint software adds features across the board. Mocha planar tracker now thrown in for free.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2020
Major free update to the sculpting app adds new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free
Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Epic Games acquires Quixel
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.2
3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Download 600+ free 4K texture sets from Share Textures
Updated: website provides sets of 4,096 x 4,096px textures of real-world materials via a CC0 licence.
Sunday, November 10th, 2019