Wysilab introduces perpetual licences for Instant Terra
Promising landscape-generation tool now costs $149 for 8K terrain export, or $199 for unlimited res.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
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Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Meshroom 2019.1 is out now
Open-source photogrammetry tool adds support for source images captured using projected light, and now runs on non-Nvidia GPUs.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2018.1
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Shotgun gets new integrations for After Effects, Jira, Unity
New After Effects and Jira Bridge plugins for the production tracking system due out at GDC next week.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.11 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web applications adds support for Bullet physics sims.
Friday, March 8th, 2019
Arnold for 3ds Max gets new particle rendering capabilities
MAXtoA 2.4.43 adds option to export as Arnold points primitives, plus new options for instancing Particle Flow systems.
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinebench R20
Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Check out the new features in ZBrush 2019
Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 15.1
Free update to suite of After Effects plugins adds the option to use text and masks as particle emitters.
Friday, March 1st, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service
Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Whip your reel into shape at demo reel boot camp
Get free tips on creating a winning reel from recruiters at ILM, The Mill, Infinity Ward and DreamWorks at Gnomon next week.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019