CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6.5

3D clothing design tool gets new features to fine-tune cloth sims, including option to glue imported meshes to the fabric.

Wednesday, April 26th, 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

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6

Now shipping: Clothing design tool adds new options to edit 3D models directly and to retime animations.

Monday, September 12th, 2016

Pixar open-sources its Universal Scene Description

Updated: New 'super Alembic' system for exchanging VFX scene data released officially. Plugins for Maya and Katana.

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Autodesk to discontinue turnkey Flame systems

High-end finishing system now available as a software-only product for Linux - and soon, for Mac OS X.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 5

Updated: 3D clothing design app gets new direct positioning tool, better pattern editing, faster sims. Now shipping.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4.5

3D clothing design tool adds support for multiple avatars, plus FBX and OBJ export for animations.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4

3D clothing creation tool used on Tintin and The Hobbit adds FBX import, new Quadrangulate option.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

NewTek announces ChronoSculpt

New tool for sculpting animation caches lets users refine work or "paint out" simulation errors by hand.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 5.0

Production-management system gets new simple UI designed to let users filter out key tasks quicker.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

EIAS3D releases EIAS 9

New development team rolls out extensive update to the veteran Electric Image Animation System.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Q&A: Rising concept art star Luca Nemolato

Aaron Sims describes him as one of the most pioneering artists in CG. Discover his technical tips here.

Friday, April 27th, 2012

VoluMedic 3.0 for LightWave to go GPU-accelerated

Volumetric rendering app used at Zoic Studios to gain fully GPU-accelerated preview renderer, new interactive editing tools.

Thursday, May 26th, 2011