See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
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Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3
New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Autodesk discontinues Stingray
Sales of the game engine to stop on 7 January 2018, but the last release will still be bundled with Maya LT 'for now'.
Friday, December 15th, 2017
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 7.6
Cloud-based production tracking system gets new Production Insights toolset for visualising analytics data.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
WTools3D releases LWCAD 5.5
LightWave modelling plugin gets neat new procedural tools for roofs and stairs. C4D and Max versions officially no longer 'Lite' editions.
Monday, December 11th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0
Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.
Friday, December 8th, 2017
Discover Aaron Sims Creative's 'sketch to screen' workflow
See ASC deconstruct its work on movies like Wonder Woman at a free talk at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Reallusion ships iClone 7.1
Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
Foundry ships Cara VR 2.0
Nuke plugin toolset for streamlining common tasks on VR projects gets new stereo tools based on Ocula, plus support for 3D match-moving.
Monday, December 4th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop ships Hyper-realistic Insect Design
Model, texture and render realistic insects in ZBrush, Maya and Substance Painter with Eric Keller's detailed tutorial.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2017
See the month's best real-time models, like this bust by Firaxis Games lead character artist Matthew Kean.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
AXYZ design ships anima 3
Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D gets new Unreal Engine plugin, multi-scene loader, physically based render engine.
Friday, November 24th, 2017