Motiva ships Layama 1.5

Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse

Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.1 for Blender and Maya

Free GPU renderer get supports for Cryptomatte AOVs, and a new 16-bit Machine Learning denoiser.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Autodesk ships Mudbox 2022

Third minor update in a row for the digital sculpting software adds a new Windows installer, but no new features or listed bugfixes.

Sunday, March 28th, 2021

Autodesk ships Maya 2022

Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2022

Motion-capture editing tool gets support for Python 3 and quite a range of workflow improvements.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Chaos Czech previews Corona Renderer 7

Check out the new features due in the next major update to the 3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer.

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021

Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender

New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.

Monday, March 1st, 2021

Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.

Saturday, February 27th, 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 rolls out Chaos Cosmos

New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

Chaos Group becomes Chaos

V-Ray developer gets snappier new name and new set of product logos, designed by leading arch viz and branding agency Uniform.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

Eye candy: Chaos Czech's new Corona Renderer showreel

See beautiful new work rendered in Corona, from photorealistic visualisations to animated shorts.

Monday, February 22nd, 2021