Side Effects releases Houdini Indie
Updated: new edition gives anyone making under $100K the full feature set of Houdini FX for $199/year.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
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Epic Games previews Unreal Engine 4.4
New car paint shading model, and updates to Persona. Subscribers also get 7 free Mixamo animations.
Monday, August 4th, 2014
Zoic Studios ships $10 iPad app for viewing virtual sets
ZEUS:Scout lets users build and navigate virtual environments and comp them into live video footage.
Monday, August 4th, 2014
WuKong brings Flame-style workflow to Nuke
Handy free set of Python scripts lets users connect nodes by dragging one over another, and much more.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
PTGui 10 gets GPU-based image stitching engine
Create panoramas up to 10x faster with New House Internet Services' popular image-stitching tool.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Check system performance with BlenchMark
Free Blender-based benchmarking tool tests both CPU and GPU and reports results to a central website.
Monday, July 28th, 2014
e-on ships Ozone 2014
Updated: Atmosphere creation plugin adds physically accurate sunlight. Free PLE edition now available.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Watch the Siggraph 2014 animation festival winners
Not all of them can be shown online in full yet, but we've got extended clips and making-ofs for the others.
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
SGO ships Mamba FX 2.0
Check out this $320 node-based compositor for Windows, Linux and Mac from the makers of Mistika.
Friday, July 18th, 2014
Pixologic to demo new version of ZBrush in August
Get a sneak peek at the new tools at the free ZBrush Summit, held at Gnomon's Hollywood HQ next month.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
Side Effects unveils Houdini Engine for 3ds Max, Unreal
Unreal Engine plugin being developed in house; 3ds Max version by former Digital Domain TD Hideki Suzuki.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
Sketchfab adds intuitive new annotations feature
Create simple annotated tours of your 3D models with the online portfolio service's new toolset.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014
Laubwerk overhauls procedural Plants Kits
Ultra-detailed plant models now support translucency. Use them natively in Max or C4D, or in other apps via Python.
Monday, July 14th, 2014