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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020

SideFX ships Houdini 18

Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

SideFX launches PilotPDG

Standalone pipeline tool lets studios build new VFX, game dev and machine learning workflows around Houdini's new PDG tech.

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4

Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0

Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap

See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.

Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019

Now shipping: Watch videos of the new features, including support for Open Shading Language and the Advanced Wood procedural map.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 2018

Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.8

Now shipping: Update extends the sculpting and painting app's Smart Materials and retopo systems, adds support for RenderMan rendering.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

Check out the new features in Blender 2.79

Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design

Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Golaem ships Golaem 6

Maya crowd animation tool gets new options for creating custom AI, support for traffic simulation, plus new dynamic emission system.

Thursday, June 29th, 2017