Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0

Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Autodesk launches Stingray game engine

New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015

Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Esri ships CityEngine 2015.0

Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets enhanced real-time shadows, plus improvements to scene editor.

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

The best new software from NAB 2015

We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

Discover the new features in Maya 2016

Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

E-on software releases PlantFactory 2015

New users of the plant-creation tool get simplified UI and materials workflow; power users get Alembic, Ptex and GoZ support.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5

Now shipping: leading game engine gets real-time GI, physically based shading, new audio-editing tools.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Faceware Technologies ships Faceware Live 2.0

Markerless facial mocap system adds support for multiple characters, option to stream data live into Unity.

Friday, August 8th, 2014

Autodesk shakes up effects and finishing tools line-up

Updated: Smoke 2015 now shipping on a pay-as-you-go-only basis. Flame 2015 family also available.

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

e-on software ships Vue 2014 product range

Updated: Entire Vue 2014 line-up now available. New features include physical sunlight, tone mapping.

Thursday, November 28th, 2013

Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6

Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.

Monday, November 11th, 2013

The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013