Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 18.1

Check out the neat new features in the free grading, editing and VFX app and its $295 Studio edition.

Friday, November 11th, 2022

Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023

3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Maya 2023

Master modelling, animation, lighting and rendering in Maya with this three-part series of tutorials.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2022

Download Andrew Averkin's free 3ds Max Assembly Tool

Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Monday, August 15th, 2022

Act-3D releases Lumion 12.3

Pro edition of the real-time visualisation tool gets new volumetric omni light effect and the option to import custom decals.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022

Maxon acquires Pixologic

Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2

Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.

Friday, November 12th, 2021

Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 17.3

Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.

Friday, August 20th, 2021

Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX

Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.

Friday, July 16th, 2021

Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU

Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 3.7

Turn your Blender, 3ds Max and Maya scenes into browser-based 3D apps - and now, into native iOS, Android or desktop apps as well.

Friday, May 28th, 2021

Download Nvidia's Omniverse and Omniverse Create

Updated: new connection plugins available for Nvidia's collaboration platform, now in free public beta.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021