5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Unreal Update 1

Plugin for importing V-Ray scenes into Unreal Engine gets support for render relighting, skeletal meshes.

Monday, January 31st, 2022

Download 32 free mocap moves and 4 rigged characters

Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

Chaos discontinues V-Ray for Modo and Katana

Sales of the Modo and Katana editions of the renderer have ended, but support continues until December 2022.

Friday, January 21st, 2022

Basefount ships Animcraft 2

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Saturday, January 15th, 2022

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1

Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

Chaos and Enscape to merge

Private equity-led deal to unite developers of three of arch viz's most popular renderers. All of both firms' products remain available.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Nvidia launches Omniverse: still free to individual artists

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3

Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D Update 2

Cinema 4D renderer gets new texture randomisation options, light instancing, native support for Apple M1 processors.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

5 tools updates you may have missed in November 2021

See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021