Visualise height maps in 3D with neat free tool Aerialod
Fun new app turns elevation data into 3D terrain and renders path-traced stills or turntable animations.
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
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Unity subscription prices to rise in 2020
Cost of new Plus subscriptions to rise 14%; new Pro subscriptions up 20%. Existing subs unaffected.
Friday, October 18th, 2019
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Check out neat physics-based animation app Cascadeur
Updated: Nekki's unusual animation software gets new rigging tools, updated AI-based AutoPosing system.
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
10bit FX introduces new pricing options for Notch Playback
Real-time graphics tool gets new weekly rental option, perpetual licences for use in installations.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9
3D clothing design tool gets support for GPU simulation, new brush-based subdivision system.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Apple acquires IKinema
Motion capture technology firm's middleware and IKinema Action plugin for Maya are no longer available for sale on its website.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Corel ships Painter Essentials 7
Sub-$50 digital painting app gets new AI-based tools to give source photos the look of drawings or oil, watercolor or acrylic paintings.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Adobe to refund Venezuelan users affected by US sanctions
Firm reverses decision not to refund unused subs when Creative Cloud accounts in Venezuela are shut on 28 October.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1
Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018.3
Big free update to the LightWave modelling toolkit adds new tools for UV mapping NURBS surfaces and for converting quads to NURBS.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher
Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019