Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.1

Big update to the renderer adds toon shader, adaptive sampling, two denoising systems, progressive rendering, native Alembic support.

Friday, April 6th, 2018

Sketchfab's models of the month: February 2018

See the month's best real-time 3D models, from amazing stylised characters to a downloadable virtual pinball table.

Thursday, March 1st, 2018

Sketchfab's models of the month: January 2018

See the best real-time 3D models created last month, from medieval knights to steampunk weapons.

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads

Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0

Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.

Friday, December 8th, 2017

Get Cineware for Illustrator and six free TurboSquid models

Download Maxon's new free 3D rendering plugin for Illustrator, plus six product and packaging models.

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.3

Updated: Autodesk discusses how the new Fluids simulation toolset stacks up against Bifröst in Maya.

Wednesday, October 4th, 2017

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R19

Now shipping. See videos of the new LoD system, motion graphics tools and media core; and the Radeon ProRender render engine.

Friday, September 1st, 2017

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.2

Update adds spline tools based on Boomer Labs' SplineTools plugin. Subscription users can run extra cloud instances free.

Thursday, August 31st, 2017

Autodesk ships Maya 2018

Viewport 2.0 becomes the primary viewport; new features added to the MASH motion graphics and Bifröst fluid simulation toolsets.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Sketchfab's models of the month: June 2017

See the month's best real-time 3D models, including this detailed, downloadable medieval character.

Friday, June 30th, 2017

Sketchfab's models of the month: May 2017

See the month's best real-time 3D models, including this amazing, fully animated VR avatar of Björk.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

PSOFT ships Pencil+ 4

Popular 3ds Max cel-shading plugin gets support for material transparency; now works with XRefs and the Nitrous viewport.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017