Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4

Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1

Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018

New plugin implements elastic implicit skinning in Maya

Novel method promises fewer artefacts and better skin contact than dual quaternion skinning.

Monday, October 8th, 2018

Vahan Sosoyan ships Aton 1.3

Lighting TD's free 'Arnold to Nuke display plugin' lets users render directly into Nuke's UI from Maya, Cinema 4D - and now Houdini.

Monday, September 24th, 2018

Notch Builder lets you author motion graphics in real time

Interesting new tool lets users link cloners, particles, fluids and volumetrics and see the results rendered on the fly.

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

Free tool Kiko ports animation curves from Maya to Nuke

Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.

Sunday, September 16th, 2018

Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine

New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Otoy previews OctaneRender 2018.1's Vectron and Spectron

Next update to GPU renderer to add new procedural 'uberprimitive' and volumetric lighting system.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20

Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15

Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

Esri ships CityEngine 2018.0

Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform

Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Get handy free VFX pipeline management tool Prism

Open-source app handles common asset and render management tasks. Integrates with Blender, Max, Maya, Houdini, Nuke.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018