Rendering Systems releases ShaderMap 4.2
Texture map generation tool gets new low-cost student and personal licences for non-commercial work.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
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Eye candy: Blender's Siggraph 2019 demo reel
Watch a one-minute run-down of the award-winning shorts and R&D projects used to test Blender 2.80.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Anastasiy ships MagicTints 1.2
Updated: AI-trained Photoshop plugin for transferring the colour palette from one image to another now supports batch processing.
Monday, August 5th, 2019
MagicPictures Software ships Aq Mesher and Aq Bullet
VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.
Monday, August 5th, 2019
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.20
Game engine gets new PhysX Force Region component, plus the option to interrupt one character animation transition with another.
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 13.0
All-in-one editing, compositing and effects software integrates Foundry's 3D camera tracker, also used in NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
SideFX unveils Solaris
Check out the powerful look dev, lighting and shot layout system due in Houdini 18 later this year, and the accompanying Karma renderer.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Autodesk launches 3ds Max Indie and Maya Indie
New 'limited-time' $250/year pricing for Max and Maya available to artists earning under $100k/year.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4
Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya
Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019