Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
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Evermotion releases Nox 0.40
Free unbiased renderer gets streamlined new GUI, new material editor and advanced colour picker.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Basefount releases Miarmy 2.7
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
So what is... The Foundry's Modo Steam Edition?
Our summary of the tech specs cuts through some of the confusion about the new $149 modding tool.
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla Render
Updated with more details: Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used by Prime Focus on Total Recall.
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Amberlight lets you 'paint' with particle fields
New procedural art tool from the creator of Flame Painter generates arresting swirls, glows and light trails.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino
Update adds V-Ray RT GPU, plus bonus add-on with 200 readymade material and lighting set-ups.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Knald Technologies releases Knald
Updated: New GPU-accelerated tool generates games texture maps from photographic source images.
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships XMesh MY
New Maya version of the 3ds Max plugin for caching animated geometry speeds up work in mixed pipelines.
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Isotropix cuts price of Clarisse iFX to $999
For a single freelance licence, at any rate. Cost of standard node-locked and floating licences also down.
Friday, December 6th, 2013
Autodesk adds MEL scripting, OBJ export to Maya LT
Latest extension suddenly makes the 'lite' version of Maya for games artists a much more powerful proposition.
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Interview: Epic Games concept artist J. P. Targete
The award-winning illustrator reveals his tips for painting realistic creatures and for promoting your work online.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
Brillstudio releases StockCG 1.5 for Maya
Updated: Browse stock content directly inside Maya via former MPC TD's new cloud-based marketplace.
Friday, November 29th, 2013