YCDIVFX releases Offline Render 1.5 for Unity
Capture in-engine footage in 16-bit multilayer EXR format. Now supports forward rendering, 360-degree output.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
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Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
Friday, March 10th, 2017
Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 9.0
Render farm manager gets a range of new security features; support for KeyShot, Altus and Silhouette.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3 for SketchUp
Update adds new UI, new library of 200 physically based materials, V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Gnomon releases Creature Modeling for Production
Master organic and hard-surface modelling in ZBrush and Modo with this seven-hour guide from Guerilla Games' Ben Erdt.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Artomatix unveils style transfer service for games artists
Cool AI tech automatically upreses PS2-era textures to today's games, or converts scanned textures to stylised ones.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
Amazon buys Thinkbox Software
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
Autodesk to raise price of its software maintenance plans
Cost of maintaining a perpetual licence of Max or Maya to rise 38% by 2019, phased in year by year.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine
In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Blackmagic ships new control panels for DaVinci Resolve
Grading software gets two low-cost hardware control surfaces. Free version now available for Linux.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Autodesk releases Maya 2017 Update 3
Sizeable update to Maya adds new motion graphics, animation, hair grooming and fluid simulation tools.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix V5 for 3ds Max
Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke
Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017