Brekel releases OpenVR Recorder
Interesting new mocap tool records tracking data direct from your HTC Vive or Oculus Rift in FBX format.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
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Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR
Nifty new VR app enables users to sketch or model in 3D using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Foundry releases first beta of Modo VR
Work-in-progress tech lets users manipulate content in Modo in virtual reality. Sign up for the beta.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6
Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14 for After Effects
New version of the motion graphics and VFX plugin suite includes big updates to Particular and Form.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Massive Software unveils Massive Prime 9.0
Heavyweight crowd simulator to get new 'universal plugin' to allow compatibility to 'all major' 3D apps.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Pixar ships RenderMan 21.5
Renderer gets innovative new physically based model for subsurface scattering, better hair rendering and render denoising.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Isotropix releases Clarisse 3.5
Big update to layout and look dev tool adds object scattering, support for Light Path Expressions and Cryptomatte, new PBR material.
Monday, July 31st, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2017.2
3D texture painting app gets new Anchor Points system for creating smart multi-layer materials, free live linking plugin to Unity.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.1
Landscape-generation tool gets better cloud generation, faster previews, and 32-bit EXR output.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0
Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017