Basefount releases Animcraft

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta

USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.

Monday, October 5th, 2020

PolyCloth brings Blender-style cloth sculpting to 3ds Max

Jealous of the new cloth-sculpting tools in Blender and ZBrush? This physics-based add-on should help.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0

SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.

Monday, May 18th, 2020

Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor

Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.

Thursday, March 12th, 2020

Pixologic releases ZBrushCore 2020

Cut-down edition of ZBrush gets long-awaited new features like SubTool folders and Sculptris Pro.

Sunday, December 22nd, 2019

Maxon buys Redshift

Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

iToo Software ships Forest Pack 6.3 for 3ds Max

Scattering plugin adds option to edit distribution and colour of objects during interactive renders.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019

Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Foundry makes its software free to students for a year

New Education Collective bundles also provide ongoing discounts on Nuke, Mari, Modo and Katana.

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018

Free tool MeshSync live links Unity to DCC software

Open-source app syncs geometry, lights and cameras between Unity and 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and MotionBuilder.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya

Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018