Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.4.1

Heavyweight renderer gets image Denoising system, new hair shader, innovative OpenEXR/Id technology.

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

Download the Maya 2017 Bonus Tools

Set of free Maya add-ons gets new Weight Editor for character rigging, new modelling and display options.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

Nvidia is releasing Mental Ray for Maya for free

For single-frame and viewport renders, at least. Things get interesting with network and sequence rendering.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

View complex 3D models on your mobile with Emb3D

Updated: Free iOS and Android app displays multi-million-poly assets in real time. Now includes new MatCap material.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2016

The Foundry ships Modo 10.2

Videos: Big new update revamps MeshFusion, adds new procedural modelling and auto retopology options. See them all in action here.

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

GenArts ships Sapphire 10

Now shipping: Suite of plugins for compositing apps gets three new effects, new presets for Builder.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

Massive Software ships Massive for Max

New 3ds Max edition of the Academy Award-winning crowd simulator is V-Ray ready; includes free $3,000 'Ambient Agent'.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

ftrack gets integration with Cinema 4D and 3ds Max

Free plugins let users access the cloud-based production tracking system directly within Max and C4D.

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

Review: Iray for 3ds Max

Jason Lewis benchmarks the new, more powerful plugin version of Nvidia's GPU-based renderer with a range of real-world graphics cards.

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

PSOFT releases CharacterBox for Modo

Cool new character animation plugin rigs anything from bipeds to creepy crawlies in a few clicks.

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

AXYZ design ships Anima 2

Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Nukeygara updates free public beta of Akeytsu

Updated: Beta 3.0 of next-gen animation system adds new weight painting and editing tools for skinning characters.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

Skuid may let non-animators do Disney-style animation

Cool new Autodesk Research tech uses readymade 'activators' to apply Disney's 12 principles of animation to any sketch.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016