Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
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World Machine Software ships World Machine 'Mt Rainier'
Big update to the terrain generator introduces new UI, history system, raises build speed by up to 60%.
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Check out new Maya hair plugin Draw Groom Guides
Neat tool snaps hair guides to a target mesh, then lets you reshape the entire hairstyle interactively.
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Trimble ships SketchUp 2021.0.1
Check out all the new features in the latest version of Trimble's architectural modeling software.
Monday, January 18th, 2021
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.5
Landscape-generation software gets OpenColorIO support, plus better support for PBR workflows.
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: December 2020
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free game assets to a striking 3D portrait of Lou Reed.
Monday, January 4th, 2021
Discover how a Gnomon Workshop tutorial is created
Follow instructor Eric Keller as he creates Introduction to Maya 2020, his detailed new Gnomon tutorial.
Friday, January 1st, 2021
Master Houdini's Ocean toolset
Discover how to simulate realistic ocean surfaces, complete with foam and spray, in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Discover how to design a poster in Cinema 4D
Watch top movie poster designer Tomasz Opasinski's starter guide to Cinema 4D for graphic designers.
Thursday, December 31st, 2020
AXYZ design ships anima 4.1
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020