Chaos Group teases new version of V-Ray for Blender
Facebook post hints at long-awaited public release of V-Ray with support for Blender 2.80+.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Free Resources
Master FLIP fluid simulation in Houdini
Follow The Gnomon Workshop's essential introductory tutorial to Houdini's fluid simulation tools.
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
Sketchfab's models of the month: September 2020
See the month's best real-time 3D models, like this free downloadable animated pigman game character.
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2
Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2021.1.2
Free hotfix update to the digital sculpting software resolves 25 stability and performance issues.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
KM-3D ships Smooth Boolean 2.0 for 3ds Max
Boolean modelling plugin's neat new Smooth Bridge modifier joins open edge loops of meshes, even if edge counts differ.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Adobe ships Dimension 3.4
Small update to the 3D layout and rendering software for graphic designers adds option to export UV layout of a model in PSD format.
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
Foundry relaxes plugin restrictions on Nuke Indie
$499/year edition of Nuke for indie artists and freelancers now works with OFX plugins like Neat Video.
Friday, September 25th, 2020
2020 CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz
V-Ray and Corona top list of most popular architectural renderers, but use of Twinmotion, Enscape and UE4 also rising.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.30 for 3ds Max and Maya
New force tuning option in the fluid simulation app lets users 'mask' forces to control sims precisely.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
Marmoset unveils Toolbag 4.0
Next big update to the popular real time rendering toolkit for games artists to support RTX-accelerated ray tracing and texture baking.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Savage Interactive ships Procreate 5X
Check out the new filters, brush effects and colour sampling features in this sizeable update to the iPad painting app.
Monday, September 21st, 2020
Pixologic releases ZBrushCore 2021
Cut-down version of ZBrush gets automatic retopology, dynamic subdivision, and MicroPoly 'cloth'.
Friday, September 18th, 2020