EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
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CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9.5
Clothing design tool gets new auto-retopology system to generate quad meshes; new 3D avatars.
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1
3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Serif is working on 3D texturing tools in Affinity Photo
See an intriguing preview of new texturing features in the popular perpetually licensed image editor.
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Boris FX ships Silhouette Paint
New touch-up and rig removal plugin makes Silhouette's paint tools available inside compositing apps like Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Master the art of 3D creature concept design
Discover leading ZBrush artist Pablo Munoz Gomez's personal workflow in Gnomon's new tutorial.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX
New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
See Materia, Adobe's AI-driven image-to-material system
Neat AI-trained tool for generating 3D materials from single source images due in Substance Alchemist and Adobe Capture.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
See the new features due in Megascans and Quixel Mixer
Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020