Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20
UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
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Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2017.2
Material authoring software gets support for the AxF material format, plus seven new filters and noises.
Friday, October 20th, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7 HD and KeyShot 7 Pro for ZBrush
Low-cost versions of the renderer for ZBrush users get new UI customisation, materials and environment options.
Thursday, August 17th, 2017
Foundry to integrate AMD's Radeon ProRender into Modo
Native version of the physically based GPU renderer in beta this year. New open-source 'Baikal' edition out now.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7
Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Next Limit releases Maxwell 4.1
Physically based renderer gets new image-denoising system, support for MERL and AxF materials, plus new readymade lighting assets.
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2017
Videos: See the new ART renderer, revamped UI, and updates to the UV and modelling tools in action here.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
Nvidia launches Iray 2015
GPU-based renderer gets support for instancing, AxF material format. New Maya plugin and server edition also in development.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Marcus Nordenstam discusses Bifrost
Naiad's co-author turned Autodesk product manager tells us how Maya 2015's new fluid simulator will stir up FX artists' workflows
Monday, March 31st, 2014
Sneak peek: The future of 3ds Max
Autodesk posts video of fixes for 'Small Annoying Things' and hints at new functionality in 3ds Max 2013.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Eye candy: eight-million-poly tribute to Optimus Prime
Check out Luis Manuel Morillo's fully animated homage to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011